Bitterness 4

 Dwelling in past hurts can disillusion us that we will ever have hope for the future. But He is redeeming us into someone new each day to be filled with Hope faith and love. Our accumulated traumas and hurts must be let go, allowing Him to be our focus. For me it helps to focus on the hurts that Jesus endured. Diane Langberg’s quote from her book has helped me:  “ He has carried the griefs and sorrows of the multitudes who have suffered the natural disasters of this world--the earthquakes, cyclones, and tsunamis. And he has borne our selfishness, our complacency, our love of success, and our pride. He has been in the darkness. He has known the loss of all things. He has been abandoned by his Father. He has been to hell. There is no part of any tragedy that he has not known or carried. He has done this so that none of us need face tragedy alone because he has been there before us and will go with u. and what he has done for us in Gethsemane and at Calvary he ask us to do as well. We are called to enter into relationships centered on suffering so that we might reveal in flesh and blood the nature of the Crucified One.”