poison of unforgiveness

last week a friend at church said she felt led to invite me to a study at her place on the battlefield of the mind.

i'm looking forward to it. we are at war against the forces of darkness and we need to know how to protect ourselves. it's great to know that in the end God wins the war but we need to be ready for battle each and every day because satan will use whatever methods he can to destroy us.

drugs and alchol poison our bodies and destroy our minds but unforgiveness is worse, it poisons our soul. it doesn't do anything to the person we harbour the unforgiveness against, sometimes they aren't even aware of it, but it eats us up inside robbing us of the joy we have when we are in a relationship with Christ. when we become christians and grow in a relationship with God we consider Christ's atoning sacrifice. when we consider how much we have been forgiven how can we not forgive others. we don't forgive others for their sake, we forgive others for our sake. and when we can forgive others and the poison drains out of us satan loses the battle.