Bitterness

 I had a dream some months back about a person I was once very close with. In my dream they had been given a diagnosis of cancer that had spread through out their body. The doctors could do nothing and within 5 months from diagnosis they were dead.

This dream troubled me. Dying from cancer is not a pleasant way to die. So I prayed and asked the Lord if there was a meaning to this dream.

The Lord said that the cancer was bitterness and that bitterness is like cancer. Bitterness left undiagnosed and untreated grows and spreads through out our entire being and destroy us.

Bitterness must be completely rooted out because even if just the root of it is left behind it will still spring up destruction.

Like cancer it is best to do everything possible to avoid it. If you do get it early detection and dealing with it when it starts/is small is better than ignoring it. The longer it stays the more damage it does and the more difficult to get rid of. Lastly left untreated bitterness just like cancer will kill you.

BIT'TERNESS, noun [from bitter.] A bitter taste; or rather a quality in things which excites a biting disagreeable sensation in the tongue.

1. In a figurative sense, extreme enmity, grudge, hatred; or rather an excessive degree or implacableness of passions and emotions; as the bitterness of anger. Ephesians 4:31.

2. Sharpness; severity of temper.

3. Keenness of reproach; piquancy; biting sarcasm.

4. Keen sorrow; painful affliction; vexation; deep distress of mind.

Hannah was in bitterness of soul. 1 Samuel 1:10. Job 7:11.

In the gall of bitterness in a state of extreme impiety or enmity to God. Acts 8:23.

Root of bitterness a dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy. Hebrews 12:15.

Acts 8:23

For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

Hebrews 12:15

looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;