BEWARE OF BITTERNESS: IT RUINS THE KIND, TENDERHEARTED & FORGIVING LIFE.
There are many infections of the soul that are caused by sin.
One of the more powerful infections is called bitterness.
Bitterness slowly infects a person’s life systemically. Every part of their life becomes defiled (Heb. 12:15), their joys get soured, their hopes get dimmed, and their spiritual life gets distant.
Beware of allowing bitterness to destroy your life.
One of the struggles believers have always faced while seeking to follow the Lord is bitterness.
The key passage in the New Testament that warns about bitterness is Ephesians 4:30 "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption". NKJV
The immeasurable power of God is stopped when His people disobey. God’s grace teaches us to deny ungodliness, but when we resist that grace our sin grieves and quenches the Holy Spirit.
Bitterness is a very deadly, fast-growing, and easily spread form of spiritual cancer.
In the New Testament, each time the word bitterness is used, it always is a form of the Greek word pic. This word means just what the tool by the similar-sounding word comes from, “to prick or cut”. This Greek word for bitterness implies something that pricks or punctures and penetrates deeply.
This verse is fascinating for two reasons:
First, bitterness is the first sin listed after Paul warns about the horrible dangers of grieving the Holy Spirit of God as a believer. Bitterness is FIRST on that list, never forget that.
Second, the verse on the other side of the warning (v. 29) is all about corrupt words (one of the danger signs of a bitter person is that they say rotten things about others).
Beware also of one of the chief causes of bitterness: an unforgiving heart.
That is:
BITTERNESS IS A CONSEQUENCE OF UN-FORGIVENESS
Remember Matthew 6:12-15 (NKJV)?
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