Bitterness-Part 7

Yesterday, we covered Abiding in Jesus.  Jesus instructs us that if we abide in Him, and He in us, we will receive a constant flow of strength through Him. (Liberties taken with John 15:4-5) Bitterness penetrates deep into our thinking and emotional reactions.  When we are starting to release bitterness, we must first fill ourselves with empowering, healing thoughts.  We can only receive these thoughts from Jesus.  He builds us up, sustains us, and empowers us to make the changes necessary in our minds in order that we can start to see bitterness for the poison it is to us.  We cannot receive from Jesus unless we are correctly abiding with Him.  I spoke yesterday of prayer, and a constant invitation to Jesus to be involve in our lives.

Bitterness catches us in a cycle of reliving our past/present hurts.  This recycling starts a reverberation of the irritation in our lives.  The louder this reverberation becomes, the more difficult it is for us to receive what the Holy Spirit is trying to lead us to.   

BREAK THE CYCLE:

Calm- a beautiful thought, but to many of us, it is so foreign.  Situational calm takes place here or there for us during the week, but to live in a status of calm is almost unimaginable.  Bitterness seeks only to feed on the frustrating, irritating, painful events of our lives.  Without it, it would die off.  This is what CALM does to bitterness, it cuts the feeding tube.  Calm is the antidote to the poison that bitterness is to our lives.  Hebrews 12:15 speaks of the poison that bitterness becomes in our lives as a root that will only serve to trouble us. 

Good overcomes evil.  Romans 12:21.  The pains of our past leave voids.  I spoke of how quickly bitterness seeks to set up residence in your heart.  When we are abiding in Jesus, we are filling the voids left by the pain with something good and empowering.  In other words, we are overcoming the evil pains of life, with the pure, good love of Jesus. 

Seek Daily Bread We have been designed to need food and water daily.  Our Spirit is no different.  We cannot binge on the Lord.  We are to seek Him daily.  Just as food is the fuel that our human body runs on, so is our Lord Jesus Christ to our Spirit.  “Apart from me, you can do nothing”.  (John 15:5) To fight against this thought by trying to accomplish moving past bitterness without the daily involvement of Jesus will result in your failure to truly be healed. 

Acknowledge the HEALER for WHO He alone is in your life. You see, ONLY Jesus can heal the pains of our past.  To be safe, secure, and KNOW who you are, only is accomplished in Jesus Christ.  Pains are going to take place again in life.  Our lives are not impervious to them, but with Jesus as our Lord, we have the HEALER living inside us. 

Article by: Pastor Daniella

Personal Note: My heart “ached” for so many years to be correctly filled.  Bitterness stripped my life of so much.  I would show the joy and happiness on the outside, but on the inside I was so scared by the pains of my life.  Jesus has and is healing me.  I pray this for your life as well.