Determine, with God’s grace, to be trained by hardships. Hebrews 12 exhorts us to respond correctly to God’s discipline. Specifically, we mustn’t shake our fists or stubbornly dig in our heels. And we can’t fall into despair.
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Can the Cross really help someone dig up the root of bitterness? Absolutely. Here’s a first step.
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How can the truths of the gospel help those who struggle with anxiety? Consider this challenging, X–ray observation from Tim Keller: “Worry is not believing God will get it right and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.”
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How can the gospel help someone with a critical spirit? A desire to find fault, scold, ridicule, to use a condescending or superior tone – all these reveal a heightened sense of one’s own inadequacies – the very thing that fuels a compulsion to elevate ourselves.
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