Let Go

Let God

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Colossians 3:8-9

But now is the time to get rid of anger, rage, malicious behavior, slander, and dirty language. Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds.

Ephesians 4:31-32

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

Vindictiveness usually comes from anger, low self-esteem, trust issues, or an inability to forgive.

Malice: A desire to cause hurt or pain to someone. A desire to see ill-will come to someone.

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Spitefulness attempts to even the score through retaliation.

I’ve never seen anyone carry around a grudge like that for 30 yrs…it’s bizarre.

— Law Enforcement Investigation

Spitefulness is like a spiritual cancer.

1 Peter 3:9 — Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult.

How have I been spiteful?

Am I being spiteful?

Revenge is the most worthless of causes.

Ephesians 4:30-32

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Let Go

We need the Holy Spirit.

Lord I forgive ________________ for _______________ which made me feel _______________.

Romans 12:19 — Never take vengeance into your own hands, my dear friends: stand back and let God punish if he will. For it is written: ‘Vengeance is mine. I will repay’.

Let God

Matthew 5:43-44

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you…

Titus 3

3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.

4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior was revealed,

5 he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us.

6 God poured out the Holy Spirit abundantly on us through Jesus Christ our Savior,

7 so that by his grace we might be put right with God and come into possession of the eternal life we hope for.

But God