If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with ? Jeremiah 12:5
He has grace for us to love and care for each other.
He has grace for us to .
There is grace from heaven to be those who run with in this season — who live supernaturally. (2 Cor. 9:8)
Bitterness doesn’t seem anywhere close to the same category of sin as in my thinking.
But obviously my thinking isn’t thinking.
Bitterness may be the most way the enemy steals, kills, and destroys in our lives.
When we don’t resolve our disappointments (which are sure to come), we will always live in less than our .
Grace disappointment with others. .
Grace means I I’ve disappointed others.
When others disappoint us it’s easy to think in terms of — to think in terms of what I am owed.
But when I disappoint others I tend to think in terms of and grace that I need.
We are called to give the same grace to others that we each need and . (Mt. 7:3)
Grace means I make sure my expectations are .
Sometimes my disappointment is because my expectations are off.
If we demand — expect — from people what we can only receive from , then we will often be disappointed with people. (Jn. 3:27)
Grace means I to forgive.
Somewhere in our regular life of prayer we should say: “Father, forgive me my sins am forgiving those who have sinned against me.” (MT. 6:12, 14-15)
And we keep forgiving them — not denying or — forgiving them until the forgiveness becomes real inside of us.
Without forgiveness bitterness takes root and causes more trouble, more , than we can imagine.
Forgiveness is a choice — not a — to forgive what is owed to us because God has forgiven us through Jesus what we owed Him.
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