Resentment and Bitterness Makes Your Life More Miserable

 "A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier."

Proverbs 27:3 (NLT)

 

I have previous dealings with my partner in business that in the beginning as we draw the picture of how the business would grow, managed, and share are all perfect, ideal, and great until challenges hit us. When things get rough all ideal characters that you're looking for a partner as we go to a smooth sailing turn into roller coaster, including the ideal character that we had before when things are running smooth turned into a monster. To save myself from this kind of mess I withdraw myself from partnership, and I think that it is the solution, to bring back my peace of mind, but it didn't.
As time goes by I always think of what happened with our partnership and it makes me resentful and bitter, to the point that I become so critical with others. I always put up my walls in terms of relationships instead of building bridges. Until one day I got confronted by the Word of God of this word..."A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier." - Proverbs 27:3

 

We become more miserable when we cannot move on and hang on with our past experiences. In one of my reflections during my quiet times, there's this nudging deep within me, and that is to forgive. When we learn to forgive we let the other person set free, but most of all, it allows you to be free, since you no longer resent nor bear the emotions out of the experience you had before, and then move on with your life. It doesn't mean that you forget the learning from our past experiences, we learn from it and we even forgive most of all ourselves, as we utter our desperation and bitterness to our living GOD who can give us the power to forgive and set free from the bondage of emotions of resentment and bitterness.

It is my prayer that as we walk through life we learn to lower down our walls and build bridges that connect to others, after all that's the grand design of our living GOD to us.