THE BURDEN OF BITTERNESS.

Nothing is heavier than bitterness.
Here is what it will do to you:
1.It will drag you down and turn living into merely existing.
2.It will cause you to leave a bad smell wherever you go. Even those who love you will become exhausted and leave, or confront you and say, ‘Get over it’.
3.It will destroy every new relationship God wants to bring to your life. After all, who wants a person that’s having an affair with a corpse? You’d only be using the new, as an anti-depressant to numb the pain of the old.
4.It will destroy your health and shorten your life span because you weren’t built to carry it.
Cut it loose! Cry if you need to, but when the grieving is over, bury it and move on. You say, ‘I can’t help but remember.’ Oh, yes you can! Paul said, ‘this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind…’ (Philippians 3:13)
Paul chose to forget. And you can!
You say, ‘but it’s so hard to do.’ Jesus didn’t say all things are easy, He said all things are possible. (Mark 9:23)
You will do a lot of growing up between what’s easy and what’s possible!
Inherent in ever promise God makes to you, is the potential to see it fulfilled. Contained in every command he gives you, is the power to carry it out.

--Bob Gass