Bitterness-Part 3

Bitterness-Part 3

Yesterday, we learned why, many times, we allow bitterness to enter into our thinking.  We also started to explore the steps that we can take towards Jesus Christ that will invite Him into our pain.  This invitation opens the door for Jesus Christ to HEAL us out of our bitterness.  

Today, we will cover the next two steps in learning how to walk out of the bitterness that is in our lives. 

So….You’ve prayed, now what?

1.       Learn why we need to be patient for the TRUE Healing that comes from Jesus, alone.

Voids are left in our soul by the pains of our lives.  Bitterness quickly comes to fill in those voids.  The Bible speaks of bitterness being a poisonous root.  Bitterness will use all areas that have been painful in order to derive the momentum it needs to continue to grow in your body.  Once you have prayed for healing from Jesus, and His involvement in your desire to remove bitterness from your life, start trusting.  Please remember, Jesus is not a careless healer.  He does not just topically fix you.  He seeks to heal you from the inside out.

2.       Learn how to trust (for the first time) enough to open the vault doors of your painful past to Jesus.

Trusting:  A time stamped process.  Trust is built over time.  For now, just trust that Jesus IS. Start trusting that you will learn to open up to Him.  Understand that Jesus knows how HARD it is for a hurting person to open their lives to Him.  Jesus is patient.  I want to share a scripture that changed my life. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. Isaiah 42:3 niv.  No matter how small the glimmer of hope we have, Christ will not ignore it.

You see, when you have been damaged by life and you feel so broken inside that you are sure that there is no hope to ever be repaired to wholeness again, you feel as if your life is made up of shards of broken dreams, and shattered trust.  But the above scripture assures us that Jesus is willing to stoop down, sweep up the shards, and promise to heal you to wholeness.  HE IS SO FAITHFUL. 

Jesus knows in order for you to trust Him with the shards of your life, you will have to come to a true understand of just Who He is. 

Tomorrow we will begin to talk about Who Jesus really is for us. 

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