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1 | releasing bitterness to young people | Eph 4:31 | appointed warrior | 183177 | ||
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2 | releasing bitterness to young people | Eph 4:31 | mark d seyler | 183178 | ||
Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Releasing sounds like simply "letting go", but the Bible tells us to put it way from us. Its an active word, something we intentionally do. Notice how it is listed with anger, and wrath, and malice, and clamor, and slander. These are all things we harbor in our hearts against others. We justify them to ourselves as if it was our right. Heb 12:14 Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. Heb 12:15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; Sanctification means a setting apart for God. As we are sanctified, as God removes from our lives and who we are those things that do not serve Him, we need to cooperate with Him. But if instead I choose to allow bitterness to control a part of me, then that part is serving my own sense of injustice, or jealosy, or whatever it may be, instead of serving God. We have the choice. We can either receive God's grace, and allow that He will correct all wrongs, heal all hurts, and cover all with love so that we are useful to Him, or we can choose to be angry, bitter, wrathful, slandering and malicious. If we choose to serve God, then we must actively and purposefully reject bitterness, and put it off of us as deliberately as we remove a coat when we come inside. When we sense within ourselves those feelings and actions which arise from bitterness, we must make the choice to not feel that way, to not act that way, and treat bitterness as sin, displeasing to God, to be repented of. And by God's grace, the more we do this, the more successful we shall be. I hope this helps! Love in Christ, Mark |
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