{"id":1459,"date":"2020-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:42:45","slug":"get-rid-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/get-rid-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Rid Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The words <i>\u2018get rid of all bitterness\u2019<\/i> paint a picture of a surgeon cutting out a malignant growth in order to save the patient\u2019s life. A similar verse, <i>\u2018Looking carefully\u2026 lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews\u00a012:15<sup>\u00a0NKJV<\/sup>), commands us to be vigilant lest a tiny seed of bitterness becomes a root that springs up and causes problems. <\/p>\n<p>Bitterness has many sources: an absentee or abusive parent we can\u2019t forgive; a nasty divorce we keep reliving; the careless words of a friend who\u2019s not even aware of their effect; a boss who passed us up for a promotion. What\u2019s the answer? Forgive, before the problem becomes embedded in your emotions and starts feeding off your memories. Paul writes: <i>\u2018Quarreling, harsh words, and dislike of others should have no place in your lives. Instead, be kind\u2026 forgiving one another.\u2019<\/i> (Ephesians\u00a04:31\u201332<sup>\u00a0TLB<\/sup>) And the sooner you do it, the better! <\/p>\n<p>The heaviest thing you\u2019ll ever carry is a grudge. It will make you a misery to be around because your driving desire will be to see the guilty party punished, especially when you or someone you love is the perceived victim. What happens is this: Satan enters the picture and convinces you it\u2019s ok to harbour resentment. After all, you\u2019re just protecting yourself from getting hurt again, right? When that happens, you dig in, justify your position, and get comfortable living with resentment. That is, until it destroys you. But that doesn\u2019t have to happen to you, because there\u2019s no emotion so deeply rooted that God\u2019s grace can\u2019t reach down and remove it. So the word for today is\u2014<i>\u2018Get rid of all bitterness.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words \u2018get rid of all bitterness\u2019 paint a picture of a surgeon cutting out a malignant growth in order to save the patient\u2019s life. A similar verse, \u2018Looking carefully\u2026 lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble\u2019 (Hebrews\u00a012:15\u00a0NKJV), commands us to be vigilant lest a tiny seed of bitterness becomes a root that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}