Here's a question we have received from a few different listeners recently.

They're asking this, Pastor John, how can I fight bitterness in my life?

Well, that's not a foreign question to me.

Bitterness is usually owing to a deep wrong we've experienced, or lots of them, or even

most painfully the same one done over and over and over again.

And it's intensified usually by the fact that nobody really knows the depths of this besides

you.

And therefore the sense of injustice grows if people only knew and you can't tell them

for various reasons.

And so it gets deeper and deeper from frustration and disappointment to anger, outbursts, to

settled, deep, long-term bitterness.

And God really knows about this, and he really wants to help us with this.

And there are four amazing things he tells us to embrace and believe and ponder in order

to fight this.

And here's number one.

Let us sink in, and by the way, all of these depend on God.

God makes all the difference here.

You can't manage bitterness successfully without God, because even if you decided, okay,

I'm settling all accounts in this world on my own, you wouldn't be able to do it.

They'd slap you in jail, or something would go wrong, you can't do it.

We cannot settle the accounts of those who've wronged us in this world.

If there's no God, there's no solution to bitterness.

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