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A Prayer About the Wasted Energy of Resentment

The godless in heart harbor resentment. Job 36:13

     Dear heavenly Father, whether it’s the annoying fly interrupting my needed nap… the thoughtless words spoken by a trusted friend… the new ding in my twelve-year-old car… the old hurt that generates fresh pain, resentment never helps, it only hurts.

     To harbor resentment is nothing short of harboring a criminal, for resentment is bent on criminal activity… stealing peace, vandalizing sleep, robbing relationship, killing kindness, murdering hope, infecting the innocent with deadly toxins… to name a few of resentment’s crimes. Indeed, as much energy is being wasted as oil spills into the Gulf of Mexico, there’s no greater waste of energy than resentment…

     But worst of all, Father, resentment is a contradiction, a blatant misrepresentation of who you are and how you relate to us in Jesus. For if anyone has a right to hold a grudge, to keep a record of wrongs done, to rehearse and remember our sins against us, it is you.

     Yet you do not treat us as our sins deserve, or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth so great is your love for those who fear you; as far as the east is from the west, that’s how far you’ve removed our transgressions from us. You’re the Father who has compassion on us, as your children. (Psalm 103:10-13). You neither show us vexation of spirit or exasperation of heart, so great is your love for us in Jesus.

     So Father, by the love that sent Jesus to the cross for me and by the power that raised him from the dead, continue to heal and change me. I don’t want to be godless in heart, but grace-full in heart. I want to be free even from resenting other people’s resentment. So very Amen, I pray, in Jesus’ wonderful and merciful name.

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