Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Yes, good morning. We are

picking up with day six of our How to heal from heartbreak God's way, devotional that's in the

Bible app. There's a link to that in the description of this podcast because we're going to fall

along with us. And as always, I'm going to read the scripture and then Tor is going to read the

Devo. Let's do it. The scripture is Hebrews 12 verse 15 and it says this,

look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no

poisonous root of bitterness grows up the trouble you corrupting many. The devotional is titled

forgive those who hurt you. And it says, imagine that you planted a beautiful garden full of flowers

and trees. One day, as you're tending to your plants, you find the sprout of a parasitic weed

in the center of your garden. As a good gardener, you know that if you don't pull it out before

its roots can grow deeper, its roots will overtake those of the plants surrounding it and kill them.

The root of bitterness works the same way. If we allow bitterness towards a person or situation

to remain in our hearts, it can overtake the joyful parts of our lives. Hanging on to bitterness

doesn't improve the situation. It's not bringing justice or revenge. We need to be able to catch

bitterness early on so we can uproot it before it hurts us and others. This is where forgiveness

comes in. Forgiving others doesn't mean that what they did to us was okay, but it sets us free

from bitterness that will only hurt us more. The people who suffer the most from unforgiveness

are ourselves. Why should we forgive? Matthew 6, 14, and 15 says,

for if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive

you. But if you do not forgive others of their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

We forgive because Jesus chose to forgive us when we did not deserve it. If we want to reflect

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