{"id":504,"date":"2012-04-23T17:06:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2012-04-23T17:10:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T21:10:30","slug":"have-you-ever-asked-how-did-i-become-so-bitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Have You Ever Asked: How did I become so bitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have been listening to Erwin McMannus<\/strong> in recent days, specifically his podcasts in his sermon series <em>Artisan<\/em>. When talking about Job, he said something that struck me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Bitterness usually doesn&#8217;t set in<\/strong>\u00a0because of what happened to you; Bitterness usually sets in through your interpretation of\u00a0why\u00a0it happened to you. The brokenness that settles deep in your soul &#8212; I know this is going to be hard for you to believe but it&#8217;s not there because of what you experienced &#8212; of what happened. It is there because of your interpretation of your conclusion of\u00a0why\u00a0it happened to you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>It can cause you to take on a filter, a mindset of\u00a0victimization\u00a0for the rest of your life which will cause you to live a life of powerlessness for the rest of your life. It will cause you to misdirect your strength, trying to control the outside world that you have no control over,\u00a0<strong>while relinquishing responsibility and control for your inner-world which you have full control over<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em>~Erwin McMannus,\u00a0<em>Artisan: Interpretation &#8211; Translation of Life, <\/em>2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>To come through adversity in life<\/strong> in a manner that&#8217;s healthy, it&#8217;s essential we grasp this reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been listening to Erwin McMannus in recent days, specifically his podcasts in his sermon series Artisan. When talking about Job, he said something that struck me. Bitterness usually doesn&#8217;t set in\u00a0because of what happened to you; Bitterness usually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/?p=504\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-formation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvLb-88","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/pastorsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}