| An Unforgiving Spirit |
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you,
with all malice” (Ephesians 4:31). |
| An unforgiving spirit is like acid, it destroys the vessel in which it is stored. It eats away at a person until there is such bitterness that it causes a person to speak things that they ought not to speak. It can causes a person to say slanderous things that often do permanent damage. In some cases it may even cause actions and create hurts and feelings that can never be undone. |
| The following verses of Scripture give the remedy for such occasions and if followed, an unforgiving and bitter spirit would never take root in our lives: |
| “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:32). |
| “Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye” (Colossians 3:13). |
| Let’s seek to be like Daniel, who in spite of everything, it is recorded “an excellent spirit was in him” (Daniel 6:3). |
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