It's Monday...again.
This week we are going to deal with the seeds of grudges. They are real and they ruin your day, your week, your relationships, your body. It could be that Monday is not the dread of today but rather the replaying of the hard feelings that started growing in your heart.
How do those seeds get lodged in our hearts? Because we grant them permission.
You say, "Here is fertile soil. Plant yourselves here in my heart."
For some reason, we are wired to host hard feelings more easily than to do the work to standing up to them and moving our hearts and minds over and over to positive thoughts and actions. If we find one person to validate our hard feelings against someone, we have all the fertilizer we need to grow something really nasty and hard to dig up.
To keep the seeds of hard feelings from planting in our hearts, we have to act with maturity, taking these hard thoughts to God, asking Him to deal with them, and asking forgiveness for any time we've already spent engaged in these hard feelings.
My least favorite God-position in the Bible is in Matthew 6: You can't get forgiveness from God without also forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God's part. (MSG)
Again...it's Monday. Make it energizing by acknowledging those seeds and taking a few minutes to get them out of your heart.
