Letting Go of Bitterness

May 25, 2023

Bitterness doesn’t just choke out your happiness and your healthy

emotions. It also strangles your spirit. When you have bitterness in

your heart, you can’t breathe spiritually.

Bitterness will only weigh you down and depress your spirit. Proverbs 27:3 says, “A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier” (NLT).

Choosing bitterness is like choosing to carry around a huge weight

with you everywhere you go, all the time. It’s an unnecessary load, but

you’ve made the choice to bear it.

Sometimes you may think you can hurt the person who hurt you by

holding on to what happened—that by staying mad, the other person will

become miserable.

But bitterness is a worthless weapon. It doesn’t hurt the other person. It only makes you miserable.

The person that hurt you is probably not even aware that you’re thinking about them all the time.

You may have been hurt by someone a long time ago, and I’m sorry you

had to experience that pain. But here’s the good news: They can’t hurt

you anymore! The only way they can continue to hurt you is if you choose

to hold on to the hurt and replay it over and over in your mind. The

Bible says in Job 18:4, “You are only hurting yourself with your anger” (GNT).

You don’t have to hurt anymore. Let go of your hurt. Surrender it to God, so that He can begin to heal you.