Recommended Citation
Lawal, J. O. (2025, May 04). He can rid your life of bitterness. (Vol. 14, No. 1). From Pastor’s Desk.
Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours without measure from God, our Father, and Jesus Christ, our Lord. I am pleased to welcome you to the month of May 2025. My prayer is that God will rid your life of everything that has to do with bitterness by the power of His Spirit. Amen.
Now I offered that prayer for you because God is indeed able to rid your life of all forms of bitter experiences, regardless of what might be responsible for them. All you need is to call out to Him in prayer and also rid your own heart of any unwillingness to forgive yourself and others that might have hurt you. And He will end all your experience of bitterness and fill your heart with joy.
For instance, Joseph had all kinds of bitter experiences in life. And he had these experiences not because he was a bad person but because people, including his own blood brothers, were used by the devil to afflict him. Yet because he trusted in God and would not hold grudges against anybody, God showed him mercy, ended all his bitter experiences and lifted him up to greatness. (Cf. Gen 37-50)
Also, we have Naomi who, with Ruth, came back from the land of Moab empty. And she was so unhappy about her situation that she told people not to call her Naomi, which means ‘pleasant’, again but to call her ‘Mara’, which means ‘bitter’. Why? The reason was that she though it was God that afflicted her family. But God was not the one that afflicted her family. They were the ones that left the land of Judah in a time of famine without divine revelations. (Cf. Ruth 1)
Nevertheless, even though she and her husband were the reason their lives were made bitter, God had mercy on her and used Ruth, a foreigner, to comfort her in ways beyond her imaginations. In fact, people’s testimony was that God used Ruth to comfort her in ways that she could not have been comforted, even if she had seven sons. (Cf. Ruth 4:15)
What about Jabez? His own life too was filled with bitterness because his mother proclaimed bitterness on him at birth. Yet God freed him from every experience of bitterness and pain that he was having, when he cried out to Him. (Cf. 1Chro 4:9-10)
Now this same God can do the same things or even better things for you, if you too will cry out to Him. Yes, He can rid your life of bitterness, if you will cry out to Him for help. So, as we begin this new month, call out to God to end whatever experience of bitterness you are having in life. And He will answer you and fill your heart with overflowing joy.
Happy May 2025.
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