🫚Bitter Root🙊

Don't miss the good things God's doing focusing on the hard things.

Remember that after the correction and punishment and the fresh start. We still have an enemy that wants you and I to fail. Don't forget that our enemy is very crafty. He doesn’t like that you are living peacefully and walking up right and talking to our Heavenly Father and lifting up your hands. He hates that you have a song in your heart and once again you are singing Hymns, Psalms and Spiritual songs making Melody in your heart. Oh no, he has to get this stopped as soon as possible. Here’s how he can do it.

Hebrews 12:15 (KJV) Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Have you admired something someone had? Then you asked the question, where did you get that? I like it. Then they would tell you where they had gotten it. Then you might say I’m going to get me one. To which they might say “great it only cost me about 20 bucks I think.” What they just did was put a number in your mind. So off to the store you go only to find out that it was not 20 bucks at all but it was $80.00. Oh, that's 60 dollars more than you thought. That is the same tactic our enemy uses “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God” What is God’s Grace?

Ephesians 1:7 (KJV) In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Don’t fly by this “the forgiveness of sins” No matter what sin, we have been forgiven. Grace is being given something we don’t deserve at the expense of someone else. We have been forgiven of our sins at the expense of Jesus Christ. But here comes our enemy in his crafty way. He not only wants your life back in bondage but as many others as possible by using me or you to do it. First we forget what God has forgiven us for. Then we notice something we don’t like in someone else. But instead of keeping quiet and remembering what God has forgiven us for we tell someone else about what we don’t like about Jim or Mike or whoever. Know what we have just done? We have now placed something in the heart about another. If they tell someone else and maybe add a little to it, it then becomes a root that spreads defiling many. Oh my it’s like that number that was placed within the mind. Now every time you see that awful sinful person you can only see their bad side. What’s wrong with that? Nothing except I/you forget what we have been forgiven of and instead of forgiving we become unforgiving toward another. That’s not what Jesus did and that’s not what we are to do either. I still remember it and it must have been 25 years or more now. Yes God has forgiven me and the man is in heaven today. But the lesson learned that morning is not forgotten. A man that had written me more than one bad check had written a book of poetry. As he went to his car to get me and the men I was having breakfast with his book; free of course. I made this statement “he might write good poetry but don’t take a check from him because more than likely it will be bad.” What did I do? I put a root of bitterness in those men's hearts. Because of me they more than likely never read his book and if they did you know what they remembered? The bad checks he had written to me. Be Careful about what we say about others. Don’t give the enemy ammunition to destroy others. 

Luke 11:4 (KJV) And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.