Bitterness – it consumes those in its grip.
The jilted fiancée longing to make her ex look bad; the disgruntled employee fantasising about how to make his company pay; the former friend plotting to turn others against the one they used to trust – all because ‘it’s what they deserve’. Pain has been experienced and now the perpetrator must pay.
It’s not a struggle we tend to share in our times of prayer. As Christians we like to present as being above such traits. Still, many of us know individuals able to spend hours reliving past grievances from their perspective alone – at times, embellishing the facts – fuelling anger in the present and imagining vengeance to come. Some of us may be in that place right now.
