Bitterness
A Snare of the Fowler
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God wants you to be healed…
Whether it is bitterness from being hurt deeply, envy, loss, or even being done dirty, whatever the cause is, you need to be healed. You also need to look at bitterness as being sin. Call it what it is. Being bitter in heart goes directly against God and His word, and you must see it that way. God knows your deepest and most inner thoughts and feelings. He has all of your ways spread out before Him like a fan or like a puzzle when you lay all the pieces out on the table, flip them over and then spread them out so you can get all the edge pieces. David tells us this in Psalm 139:1-3
O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.
With God knowing you so intimately this way, who better to get direction from? I love the fact that God is not just this all knowing supreme being who because of His sovereignty just happens to know everything about us. While God is The All Knowing, Sovereign Creator of all things, David, moved by the Spirit of God, says of Him, “You have searched me and known me.” Ahhhh, how beautiful it is, to know that the God of all the universe and everything that is in it, has taken the time to search and know each and every one of us. He knows all the fine details of you and I. Even the hairs on your head are all numbered. Matthew 10:29-30 He collects all your tears and puts them in a bottle. Psalm 56:8 He knows your sitting down and your rising up. He knows which specific path you will take in every event in life. He even knows what your sleep is like when you lie down. Do you know because of His foreknowledge, He knows our thoughts before we even think them?
With all of these things being the way they are, God also sees all the mistakes in our thinking. He sees all the wrong decisions we will make ahead of time concerning what path we choose to take in any given event of life. He sees all the hurt that will come to us and what path we will choose because of that hurt. He sees the paths we will choose because of the flesh, pride, anger, jealousy, covetousness, envy, fleshly desires, and the like. God doesn’t see all just because He’s God. It is because He loves us that He searches us and knows all that we are.
If you haven’t been healed by the Lord from the bitterness in your heart or you don’t think He can heal you, it is only because you are not willing. God is more than willing to heal you. It is His desire to heal you. And not only to heal your hurt, but to heal all that sin has done in your life by not following Him in every way. I would like to say as I have said earlier, I know that there are deep hurts in some people’s lives. Abuse that has been thrust upon them in one fashion or another. God knows the depths of all that has been done to you. He also knows the path that you have taken to deal with those things. He also is the God of tender mercies, ready to heal, ready to breathe joyful life into an otherwise seemingly life of continual sorrow. I am not a doctor of any sort, but I know my God. He heals to the uttermost, to the depths of wherever you are and passed that. My God is the only one who brings back what man carelessly destroys. He makes the heartache a thing in the past, overcome by His great love and compassion. PLEASE, come to the Lord and see that He is generous with His great love and healing.
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Are you bitter?
Is it possible you are and think you’re not?
Interesting thing about bitterness is that this snare that satan uses to catch us is practically invisible to us. This is mostly because the snare is set using our own emotions against us. Someone harms me in some way, says something hurtful, does something hateful to me and these may truly have been offences to me. Now I react with anger. This is an honest emotion. I become sad and upset. Again, more honest emotions. Satan sees this happening and begins to stoke those flames of emotion with thoughts of, how could they have done this to me? What kind of person would do such a thing? Why me? And with all of this, left unchecked, your heart becomes bitter. Now you feel you have the right to stay in this state of mind toward those who have offended you and satan is just cheering you on against them knowing that your bitter heart has now made you defiled. God has a much better plan for you knowing that being defiled will separate you from Him. The scriptures tell us that it is good that the heart be established by grace (kindness, favor), not with foods that have not profited those who have been occupied with them. Hebrews 13:9 Let the Lord undue this snare that you have been caught up in and bring true lasting healing to your heart.
About the Author
Mark Pogue was born and raised in Southern California where a life of drugs, alcohol, fornication and fighting brought him to a place of despair and the brink of suicide. He literally, in tears, cried out to the Lord to save him from taking his own life and little did he know, that would also be the day that the Lord would save his soul. He received Jesus as his Lord and Savior that day at the age of 20. Mark knew within the first couple of weeks of being saved he was called to strengthen and encourage the body of Christ. As he walked with the Lord, he had the privilege to serve in many ministries from leading worship to serving as a deacon in a local church. After over twenty years of studying and ministering to the body of Christ Mark received an honorary bachelor’s degree in theology from the president of California Christian College. With the blessing of these accomplishments Mark says, none of this means anything without a close relationship with God through Jesus Christ. He goes on to say, all the ministry, degree, and the servanthood do not make a relationship with the Father. All of these things should be a by-product of one who is seeking God the Father with all of his heart. These things should be an out pouring of the desire to know our God better!