Uprooting the Root of Bitterness

Has bitterness and anger taken root in your life and are they destroying you from the inside out? Perhaps some of you are living with a life-long bitterness that goes back to childhood. Perhaps some of you are living with a bitterness that is more recent. Whatever the case, bitterness and the anger that flows from it will sap the very life from you. The fruit of the Spirit cannot grow from out of the root of bitterness. How do you defend yourself against bitterness and anger when you who have been betrayed, when those close to you have lied to you and deceived you, when you have been abused and misused, attacked, slandered, or when you have watched your loved one suffer greatly from some deathly disease, or suffer from some travesty of justice? Dear ones, the power of Christ's death and resurrection can sweeten the waters of bitterness and anger that have taken root in your life.