Malice, bitterness, and
resentment are poison to the soul. Malice only injures the malicer, not the
malicee. I read an interesting quote some time ago concerning resentment.
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person (the one
resented) to die." The Word of God instructs us to "lay aside all malice".
Scripture teaches us that the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed
for his friends, who were "forgers of lies and physicians of no value". Pray for
grace to fix your mind and heart on Christ. Remember how that He died for your
sins. Recollect that he has forgiven you all things. Remember that what he has
done for you, he has also done for your brother or sister. Don't be guilty of
calling to remembrance what God has purposed to "remember no more". Don't exert
vain energy to dig up what God Himself has buried. Don't go looking for what God
has hidden. " Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of
mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one
another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even
as Christ forgave you, so also do ye."