Bitterness

Today was a slightly challenging day. Today, I admitted to myself that I can be bitter. It's a shock, I know. (That was called sarcasm just now...) As a human being, I have faults. One of them is being bitter. However, I need to change that bitterness into something sweet for God. James 3:14 and 16 (KJV) say, "But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth... For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."

God wants us to not be bitter or envy things/people. Ephesians 4:31-32 (KJV) says, "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and clamour, and anger, 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." There have been some not-so-great events in my life, and I was (and still am at times) pretty bitter about it. However, I am working on replacing that bitterness. I've been being kind to the people involved in the situation as much as I can, and have been praying for them. It was really hard at first, but prayer is essential in forgiving someone and moving on past bitterness. I know that it really hurts for some things to happen in your life, but God's forgiven us for all of our sins, all we have to do is ask for that forgiveness. We need to be an example, and forgive those who wronged us, but also try to not bring up what they did again. It's never fun to dwell in the past, and it just ends up creating the same bitterness you felt the first time it happened, so pray to God for strength to forgive and move on. Trust me, it'll make you feel better about the whole situation.