Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, May 14th.

What happens when unforgiveness takes root in a believer's heart?

Today, find out how to overcome bitterness and experience freedom from bondage.

Suppose tomorrow morning when you go to work, you have to go with your hands bound, and on both your

ankles there is a chain with a big ball weighs about 30 pounds. Well, several things would happen.

First of all, whatever your responsibility is, you would have a real hindrance in achieving

what you set out to achieve tomorrow. Secondly, you would feel a real energy drain because your

mind would be divided and you would find yourself hampered all day long. We were made to function

with freedom and be able to walk where we want to walk, not pulling balls and chains, not having

ourselves bound in any form of fashion.

And the same thing is true in our own spiritual life.

Well, Satan is very, very smart.

He's not omniscient.

He doesn't know everything, but he's so smart.

He knows how to camouflage and to cloud our minds.

He knows how to paint in false colors what you and I have a

very difficult time detecting. Because you see, there are attitudes oftentimes within us

that bind us and keep us from becoming the person God wants us to be. Now, if I'm unwilling to

look within myself to examine myself, if I always us to be. Now, if I'm unwilling to look within myself to examine myself,

if I always want to be blaming someone else for the problems I face,

then I've got a real problem.

But if I'm willing to look on the inside,

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