Unforgiveness and bitterness distort how you see others and block the Holy Spirit's guidance. When you're hurt, your mind builds excuses that let bitterness take root, making you judge people through past pain instead of God's grace. The speaker urges you to recognize these triggers and choose forgiveness so discernment can come from divine grace.
When someone offends you, when someone disappoints you, when someone fails to meet the expectations that you set for them, whether you communicate those expectations or not, that's an opportunity for hurt. Whatever it may be, there is this root of bitterness that can take place. Now, there's going to be a lot of pushback from many people. They'll say, well, you don't know what they did. You don't understand my situation. Or that's easy for you to say. You never knew so-and-so. And maybe even now there's people coming to your mind. ways you've been offended. And immediately with that comes all the excuses and the lies that we tell ourselves why our situation is different and why we can hang on to that and hold it in our hearts. But here's what's gonna happen. When you allow for that root of unforgiveness, that root of bitterness take its place in your heart, it begins to produce now these negative attributes or a filter through which you see everything and everyone else. And this is something you gotta watch out for. Maybe even they're reflecting certain personality attributes No character flaws. They just remind you. They could even dress similar or have a similar sounding voice, and you're not even recognizing how that similarity is bringing you back to that place where you were hurt with that other person. And so now you kind of put that label, or there's a personality type that you just don't get along with because of past experiences. When you discern through unforgiveness, you're discerning through bitterness rather than the grace of God. You're discerning through past experiences rather than the voice of the Holy Spirit.
