Bitterness Puts Distance Between You and God

Bitterness Puts Distance Between You and God

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Proverbs 10:12 KJV

Are you mired in the quicksand of bitterness or regret? If so, it’s time to free yourself from the mire. The world holds few if any rewards for those who remain angrily focused upon the past. Still, the act of forgiveness is difficult for all but the most saintly men and women. Being frail, fragile, imperfect human beings, most of us are quick to anger, quick to blame, slow to forgive, and even slower to forget. Yet we know that it’s best to forgive others, just as we, too, have been forgiven.

If there exists even one person-including yourself- against whom you still harbor bitter feelings, it’s time to forgive and move on. Bitterness and regret are not part of God’s plan for you, but God’s plan for you, but God won’t force you to forgive others. It’s a job that only you can finish, and the sooner you finish it, the better.

Meditation Scriptures:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians 4:31-32 KJV

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. James 3:14-16 KJV

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. Proverbs 14:10 KJV

Taken from 100 Days of Prayer for Women

Today’s Prayer

Heavenly Father, free me from anger and bitterness. When I am angry, I cannot feel the peace that You intend for my life. When I am bitter, I cannot sense Your presence. Keep me mindful that forgiveness is Your commandment. Let me turn away from bitterness and instead claim the spiritual abundance that You offer through the gift of Your Son Jesus. Amen

Be Blessed!

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