I see you. Looking around, searching out that bitter root
before it can grow up to cause trouble and defile many. Very vigilant of you.
But perhaps you are looking in the wrong place. Can you really see the budding
bitter root in someone else? Perhaps you should look inward and see what is growing there.
The writer of Hebrews urges us to see that no one misses the
grace of God. How are we going to be effective in sharing God’s grace if we
have a crop of bitterness growing inside ourselves? Dig up that nastiness in
yourself and replace it with God’s grace in your own life. Maybe you can see the fruits of that bitter root in another person, but you can only be an influence for grace in their life – you
can’t make them change. It is only in your own life that you can actively
prevent the growth of those troublesome roots. Don’t let anyone miss out on the
grace of God because you have failed to uproot a source of contamination. Within yourself.
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