When Bitterness Seeps In

We are no strangers to seasons of deep heartbreak and loss as we follow Jesus. Heaven is the only place which is immune from sorrow, and none of us have arrived there yet. Since we cannot escape grief, we must learn how to respond to it as people in whom lives the Man of Sorrows who was, Himself, aquatinted with grief. When grief is not responded to in the Spirit, it will almost always become bitterness which poisons our souls. We become suspicious and fearful of God. We embrace a false identity of victimhood. We resent other people’s happiness because we have given up on our own. Naomi’s story contains an extremely bitter season, and from her example we can learn much about what to avoid in our dark seasons.