Unlock your heart Dont get bitter, get better A bitter spirit will keep you from being a better person. Dont get bitter, get bitter. Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.(Harry Emerson Fosdick) Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.(Lee Strobel) Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.(John Ortberg) Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.(Alain De Botton) Heres the symptoms counsellors look for when defining a bitter person Check your heart as we go through this list do you have bitterness? When a person who has offended you walks into a room, how do you respond? Do negative feelings immediately overcome you causing you to put on a hypocritical happy face? Do you intentionally turn away to ignore and avoid him or her? Does the mere mention of his or her name leave a bitter taste in your mouth? Does thinking about him or her make you sickgive you a bitter stomach? Do you have a similar negative reaction when you just hear his or her name mentioned? Do you resent his or her successhearing any good report about him or her? Do you secretly desire misfortune or failureor worseto come his or her way? Does the person who offended or hurt you come to mind often? Do you mentally argue with themi.e. dream or daydream about putting him or her in their place? Do you feel the need or do you see a tendency to talk to others about the failures or shortcomings of those who have hurt or offended you? Hebrews 12:14-15 (NIV) Hebrews 12:14 (NIV) Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the L

A bitter spirit will keep you from being a better person.

Dont get bitter, get better.

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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.(Harry Emerson Fosdick)

Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.(Lee Strobel)

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. (John Ortberg)Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.(Alain De Botton)

Symptoms of a bitter person Do negative feelings immediately overcome you causing you to put on a hypocritical happy face?

Do you intentionally turn away to ignore and avoid him or her?

Does the mere mention of his or her name leave a bitter taste in your mouth?

Does thinking about him or her make you sick-give you a bitter stomach?

Do you have a similar negative reaction when you just hear his or her name mentioned?

Do you resent his or her successhearing any good report about him or her?

Do you secretly desire misfortune or failureor worseto come his or her way?

Does the person who offended or hurt you come to mind often?

Do you mentally argue with themi.e. dream or daydream about putting him or her in their place?

Do you feel the need or do you see a tendency to talk to others about the failures or shortcomings of those who have hurt or offended you?

Hebrews 12:14-15 (NIV)

Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

Hebrews 12:14-15 (MSG)

Work at getting along with each other and with God. Otherwise you'll never get so much as a glimpse of God. 15 Make sure no one gets left out of God's generosity. Keep a sharp eye out for weeds of bitter discontent. A thistle or two gone to seed can ruin a whole garden in no time.

Hebrews 12:14-15 (AMP)

Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration and holiness without which no one will [ever] see the Lord. 15 Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look [after one another], to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure Gods grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing), in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it

Deuteronomy 29:18-19 (NIV)

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison. 19 When such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

Deuteronomy 29:18-19 (MSG)

Don't let down your guard lest even now, today, someoneman or woman, clan or tribegets sidetracked from God, our God, and gets involved with the no-gods of the nations; lest some poisonous weed sprout and spread among you, 19 a person who hears the words of the Covenant-oath but exempts himself, thinking, "I'll live just the way I please, thank you," and ends up ruining life for everybody.

Dont get bitter, get betterLet God be God.Let Grace and Mercy cover it.Let Good replace it.

Hebrews 12:14-15 (NIV)

Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

Dont get bitter, get betterLet God be God.Let Grace and Mercy cover it.Let Good replace it.

Ephesians 4:31-32 (NIV)

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Dont get bitter, get betterLet God be God.Let Grace and Mercy cover it.Let Good replace it.

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