Resentment

I have been thinking about another way to describe resentment -

"Re-send it -ment"  

“I don't want this trial.” 

“I did not plan this situation”  

To walk in resentment is to refuse what the Father has sent us. 

Webster defines it this way:
 
...passion which proceeds from a sense of wrong offered to ourselves, or to those who are connected with us; less excitement than anger, though often synonymous with it;  exasperation, and indignation;  not the sense or perception of injury, but the excitement which is the effect of it.       

Resentment is really

 just another

 form of resistance. 

Relinquishing, on the other hand, is the opposite of a  "re-send it back" attitude. 

It is holding out our hands (with acceptance) even when there's nothing really appealing in the mail. It's letting go, renouncing our claim, relinquishing a debt.  The temptation to walk in resentment is only there when we are holding something that was never truly ours from the beginning. 

Remember, not even our children fully belong to us - we are merely stewards of them.  

"Resist" or "Rest" 
walk a fine line on 
different sides of each other

HE is all we need 

for this spiritual 

Rest

of a  surrendered life. 

When God sends us a special delivery, or  even just the bills, the key is to NOT write "return to sender" on His envelopes.  

We must learn to receive His packages and stop placing so much importance on our own preferences and priorities.     

The only time that we "send away" something, or some thought or offence, is when we release a wrong done to us.  

We seek to not keep 

a record of wrongs.  

Our Leger,

 only has LOVE 

written on it.  

This will take help from the ONE who, has gone before us and shown us the way of LOVE.  While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  We forgive others, because He has forgiven us.

Resentment comes at a price, that will reap lack of peace and joy.  Relinquishing our rights, allows Him the control, to make all things beautiful, in His Time.

“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”

"When I hold hurt in my heart because of an offence, I'm giving that person, free 'room and board' in my mind.  Forgiveness frees us, to make more room for Christ love."