1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. We're glad to 2 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: have you listening with us. Today's topic is on how 3 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: to get rid of the root of Bitterness. We'll return 4 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 1: with the devotional after a brief message from our sponsors. 5 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: How to Get the Root of Bitterness Gone written and 6 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: read by Kelly Blari. See to it that no one 7 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: falls short of God's grace, that no root of resentment 8 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be 9 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: defiled Hebrews twelve fifteen. My husband and I have a friend. 10 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: He's one of the top national scholars for cancer medicine 11 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: and research. Curious, we asked him, have you identified a 12 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: link between unforgiveness and bitterness with a cancer diagnosis? His 13 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: answer yes, In fact, my mom couldn't forgive. She had 14 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: cancer two times beyond his mom. Interestingly enough, he saw correlation, 15 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: so do various scientific studies. According to the website doctors 16 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: beyond medicine studies show suppressed anger and emotions are linked 17 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: to cancer. They note emotional toxicity is most likely the 18 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: cause of their cancer, and that forgiveness, if used with 19 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: appropriate treatments and lifestyle changes that can address the physical 20 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: is a first line primary treatment. Wow, I was astonished, 21 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: But I wondered, what does Scripture have to say about this? 22 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: See to it that no one falls short of God's grace, 23 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: that no root of resentment springs up causing trouble. By 24 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: it many be defiled Hebrews twelve fifteen. Biblically speaking, defilement 25 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: does not only happen in thought, but it can also 26 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: happen in our body, soul, and mind. We are the 27 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: temple of God, and not to defile God's temple our body. 28 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: We are instructed to be cleansed of anything defiling in 29 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: body or spirit. We learn what defiles us is what 30 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: comes out of our heart. Clearly, I don't have all 31 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: the answers on cancer, but what I do have a 32 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: clear answer on is that we don't want to be 33 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: defiled in body, soul, or mind. This certainly made me 34 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 1: sure that I don't want to be defiled. What about us? 35 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: Are we defiled? Do we harbor bitterness? Do we keep 36 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: resentments nursing them like a baby? Do we hold records 37 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: of wrongs against people, convicting them via our thoughts? Might 38 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: we be angry? The irony what we hold against others 39 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: does not hurt them, It hurts us. What pain we 40 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: keep inside of us grows within us. We may think 41 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: this doesn't matter, that it doesn't hurt anyone, that no 42 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: one can see it, but it absolutely does hurt us. 43 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: Not only this, it oozes out upon others. Can't we 44 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: all see that person we know with a face of anger. 45 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: They think no one knows, but certainly when you look 46 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: at them, you can easily identify their eyebrows furrowing in. 47 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: They believe they hide it well, but it takes a 48 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: second to recognize their facial tension. From all they are 49 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: holding in, you can feel the edginess and their responses. 50 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: Their pent up stuff doesn't just exist in their mind. 51 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: They hold it in their body, and it speaks between 52 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: the lines of their words. May this person never ever 53 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: be us? If we have been defiled by a root 54 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: of bitterness, what we think we are hiding is most 55 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: likely residing on our face, living in our body, and 56 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: oozing out from ours our responses. God help. Of course, 57 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: we know that life has a way of sucker punching us. 58 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: People will be people. Circumstances hurt offense is rampant. How 59 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: do we forbid the filement in our body? Mind and spirit. 60 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: We remember the one who is reviled, so that we 61 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: don't have to live defiled Jesus. Jesus carried the weight 62 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: of our sin so we wouldn't have to carry the 63 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: weight of all our backbreaking sin on us. Even more, 64 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: Jesus endured the weight of all sin so that we 65 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: wouldn't have to carry the weight of other people's sin. 66 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: If Jesus forgave us so much, how can we not 67 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: forgive others the same way. We can forgive much because 68 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: he forgave much. We can love much because he loved 69 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 1: us so much. Intersection faith and life. What does this 70 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: look like practically? To release from the mind, the body, 71 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 1: and the spirit. It looks like something Scripture invites us 72 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: to cast our cares on the Lord. To cast biblically 73 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: does not look like a light and airy casting. It 74 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: looks like a complete throwing off, like someone might throw 75 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: a saddle on a horse. It is getting off of 76 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: you and releasing onto him what he's already paid the 77 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: price for. Why not cast you were worries, cares, bitterness, anger, 78 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: or resentments on to Jesus. Let him take care of them. 79 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: He will do a much better job than you. Will 80 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: thanks for listening to today's devotional. If you liked what 81 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:55,839 Speaker 1: you heard today, we want to make sure you know 82 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 1: about our sister podcast, Your Daily Prayer. 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