Lord, bitterness has been setting up house in me. Someone wronged me, and the hurt has slowly hardened into a resentment I rehearse and nurse, even though it poisons me more than them. Your word tells me not to take revenge, but to leave room for Your justice — so I am trying to hand You a score I have gripped for far too long. I am not pretending the wrong did not happen, or that it did not hurt; You saw it, and You take it seriously. But I cannot keep being the judge and the jailer and the one drinking the poison. Loosen my grip, slowly if it must be slow. Heal the wound underneath the bitterness so it has less to feed on. Free me from the belief that staying angry keeps me safe. And where forgiveness feels impossible, make me at least willing to be made willing. I give You the verdict, Lord. Carry what I have been carrying. Amen.
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Prayer for Bitterness
Bitterness usually grows from a real wound; here are words for the resentment that's been hardening in you.
“Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath.”
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