Have you had your Joy Juice
today? If it’s the genuine recipe, there
will never be a bitter after-taste!
It’s a human malady….something we
really don’t like nor do we seek after, but we all have to deal with. It’s called
BITTERNESS. Is there any of that poison
in the pantry of your heart? The enemy
uses it regularly to steal our joy and cause dissention…among friends, married
couples, family members, working colleagues. No one is immune!
Linda Evans Sheperd* describes this
trait in these words: “Most people would never add a few drops of arsenic to
their fruit smoothie. They’d say, ‘That’s just crazy.’ Yet many sip daily from
a cup of bitterness. And if you asked
about it, they’d say, ‘Why shouldn’t I? Didn’t you see what my (friend, spouse,
in-law, boss, employee, office, church, school, community, sweetheart,
government, enemy, attacker, customer, neighbor, family member, or other) did
to me? I never deserved that. So, of
course, I sip from a bitter cup.’”
We all can identify with that way of
thinking! That’s our human nature. But
what would Jesus have us do regarding drinking bitterness into our spirit? I’m pretty sure the answer can be found in
Ephesians 4:32: “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”
Drink the sweet JOY JUICE of Jesus…not the bitter cup of unforgiveness.
*How To Pray When You Need a Miracle by Linda Evans
Sheperd (Page 69)
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