Betrayal locks us into a self serving bias. Our bias holds up pretty well in this world. We can get along fairly well living to suit ourselves. But, when God steps in to reclaim the relationship that’s been lost, our bias won’t hold up. We know something’s wrong. We dare not admit we’re responsible in any way so to blame we must go. But, blame will not hold up. It doesn’t fit the facts. The fact is I have a say-so in what my life is like. If I fight against that fact I will grow bitter.
Again, God is asking questions, this time of Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But, if you do not what is right, sin is crouching at the door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” In bitterness there is a battle for mastery. Whose servant will you be – God’s or sin’s? On the A & E network’s program, Intervention, a young man wrestling with his anger and the addictions that arise out of it laments though he knows he is doing wrong, he is helpless to do anything about it. Even after he says yes to treatment and intervention, his anger causes him to be dismissed from the program. When bitterness prevails something has to give.
We'll find out tomorrow what happens when bitterness has its way. The path gets uglier. If you or the group you're part of needs a turn around out of bitterness, contact us. We'd like to help you get back on the pathway of grace. That's why we wrote the book Moving at the Speed of Grace.
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