Dear God Where Do You Want These Resentments?
I Thought I got rid of em until somebody brought up somethin I didn’t wanna think about.
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I Thought I got rid of em until somebody brought up somethin I didn’t wanna think about.
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16 Replies to “Dear God Where Do You Want These Resentments?”
Dear Lunatics Friend,
Your diatribe reminded me of the perplexities of Paul in Romans ch7. Try reading it in some of the Bible translations that the Pastors don’t generally proclaim from the pulpit like The Message or The Voice or the New Living Translation. If you use Bible Gateway you can read all 3 of them simultaneously side by side eh?!
“The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.” (Rom 7:25 MSG)
As Bob Dylan says, “Yes indeed, you’re gonna have to serve somebody …”
and once again yet another of your prodding sermons! LUin! LOL
If a woodchuck did chuck wood,how much wood would a woodchuck chuck. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers…..
I don’t think we ever get rid of past resentments or things like that. The Eagles have a song from their reunion in 1994, “get over it”. So true. Give it a listen. You’ll say wow he nailed it ..
LOL Hey MK.. I know that song well! “I’m gonna find yer inner child and kick his little ass” ROFL Seriously I actually laughed out loud
Wow B, whyd you have to go there ? I imagine it’s that proverbial can that we’ve kicked down the road long ago saying to ourselves we have forgiven this one or that one in prayer and in our minds we thought that’s it i’m moving on i aint gotta deal with this anymore, besides the offending party is out of sight and out of your mind. You gave what you thought was a truly valiant effort of giving it to God but as time will prove you may kept a small handful of i wanna get back seeds in yo pocket when you walked away from your prayer. In that same pocket unbeknown to you there was a small hole and over the years the seed spilled out and those resentments that you thought were gone are now all over the place. You now know it’s true cause that same old resentment still got you gritting when you trip over those crabgrass plants again ! Somehow and someway I think we all have to find a way to really put these matters in God’s hands and leave it there because if we don’t we gonna have that hurt come up at a inappropriate time and a very embarrassing lashing out may result. If that happens even gramma’s solution won’t be able to make it right ! And I liked gramma’s solution !
LOL CJ.. Ima keep me some o doze ‘get back seeds in yo pocket’ ROFL
I guess we should do like Elsa, and just “Let It Go!”
But that’s hard. I’m always amazed at how I can remember an offense from someone but not the nice thing they did for me. Oh wicked man that I am…
oh man… I coulda added that to my prayer insight.. why can I remember bad stuff but not good? LOL
Bryan these sermons are the most classic and clever lessons for all. They can be learned like poetry by children an recited service as prayers. Everyone could remember.
Thanks JZ.. for the encouragement
The thing about forgiveness and forgiving those things you resent, is it can be used as often as you need to forgive them. Jesus never said, “Forgive and forget” or “You have not forgiven someone until you forget the wrong done.” Thank God! Otherwise we would never be free of the things we resent, even if that freedom is momentary until we have to re-apply forgiveness.
Great point Nate.. one of the best sermons I heard was ‘what forgiveness is not’I think the fact that resents are hard to erase is because we don’t forget
thanks for your input and for stopping by my comments page!
I was just trying to remember a resentment I recently had. I can’t remember, so that’s a good thing, right? I hate when thoughts from the past come back. I like the analogies some have put on here like the hole in the pocket. And maybe if I think of a resentment again, I’ll try to think of something good to replace it. I like that idea, as hard as it will probably be. Oh, we humans.
hey that might make a better nutshell.. I complain a lot in my devotionals
I think this should be included in our definition of forgiveness: an ongoing process. I’ve seen up close how bitterness and resentment can affect a life, so I try to keep forgiveness in my front pocket so I can easily access it. I love your analogies in this one. They are all spot on.
you know I glow when you say things like that about my insight.. who knew I had any! LOL