Bitterness
The first step in the process of humbling yourself is to submit to God your thinking and feelings.
Surrender your right to feel anger and bitterness, admit that your thinking has not solved the problem. Your thinking and feelings have magnified the problem and must be surrendered to His thinking and feelings. 2 Corinthians 2:10-11 says, “To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”
Paul implies here that the only way to forgive anyone is to do so through yielding your thinking and feelings to Christ. You may have tried to forgive the person in the past; it could be that you even have punished yourself for not being a good enough Christian to stop feeling and thinking the way you do about them.
The answer is that you cannot do it through your own power. As Paul looked on those who had wronged him (and they were many) he pictured Jesus on the cross. As He was on the cross, He was looking down through time and saw every sin that would be committed, and His choice on the cross was to forgive each and every one of them, even the ones that would be committed against you. Paul chose to stop going by his own thinking and feelings and make a conscience choice to go by Christ’s. Forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling.
This choice begins with the first step of humbling yourself and submitting your thinking and feelings to God. Submit your wounded heart and spirit, and it will amaze you how quickly He can heal it.
