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Miserable
Don't worry I haven't stumbled into a pit of negativity, but I did learn a great lesson last night. We were doing a study from Rick Warren's 40 days of love campaign. It's a great study. Last night he was talking about forgiveness and how if we don't forgive we will become bitter. His point was bitterness will make you miserable. As I wrote the word miserable on my study guide and it came to me like a bold from the blue. What are the first five letters of Miserable. MISER. What's a miser? Someone who hoards things and can't let them go. That's the perfect definition of bitterness, we hoard offenses that we should let go. We hold on to things because for one reason or another we can't let them go. Forgiveness is as much for you as it is for the other person. What do you need to let go?

Hebrews 12:5 says See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. In this season as we celebrate what Jesus did for us on the cross, the key point is grace. When Jesus hung on the cross, beaten and bloodied and broken having been abused in nearly every way and he said Father forgive them for they don't know what they're doing. What are you holding onto like a miser? Maybe today is the day to let it go.