Resentment a Product of Works

We saw that these resentments must be mastered, but how?

Will the madness ever cease? The more that I know God and His Son through His Word,  the more I nearly laugh with incredulity that I had settled for second best for so long in the annals of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Resentment, like any other ill emotion, is the product of our minds working to get something:

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

"Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

"Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5: 19-21)

"Variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions" -- all of that covers "resentment", I am sure!

"Resentment" is a "work of the flesh", people! If you are upset about something, it is because you are trying too hard, either trying to get back at somebody, or trying to forgive someone, or just plain trying not to try! People cannot make you mad: no way! If you are still fighting with your fourth-grade bully in your mind, if you are still yelling at that dead mother who abused you as a kid, it is merely Satan hitting you with fiery darts. Just receive who you are in Christ by faith, and those darts will be quenched! (Ephesians 6: 16)

We have thoughts which fly through our heads all the time. Those are fiery darts, which the shield of faith easily extinguishes! We do not "do anything" in order to be free of this nonsense.

I lift by Pastor Joseph Prince, whose teaching "have a throne attitude" explained this principle very well. God wants us to rest and rejoice in Him NOW, not when our feelings are gone, not when our problems are resolved, but NOW! This is what it means to "Seek" the Kingdom of heaven", and then everything is added unto us!

We accept by faith that God is for us now, so it is nothing but silly and empty to  get worked about anything which God the Father is bringing under our feet (Psalm 110: 1; Ephesians 1: 22-23)