What are some good bible verses to help you when you feel bitter?
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(Isaiah 54:4-8)  "Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; ... 6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer\n.
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Each day at the end of the day, write down 5 things that you are thankful for.  It doesn't matter how small or big the things are.  If someone you love, smiled at you, that is a good thing.  If you get a perfect parking spot, that is a positive thing.  Focus on what is positive in life.  Believe in your higher power and that everything happens for a reason.  Sometimes negativity brings lessons that we need to learn even when it feels bad.  Try to find the good even in the bad things.  Trust that your higher power will see you through all bad and good events.
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It can sure make a person bitter against God for what happens in life. Satan wants you to become bitter. Don't never let satan win. Keep the love in your hearts for those children. God has taken care of them. Although God loves us, this life is a minority compared to what is to come. This life is a test for the next. Don't become bitter and know God has a plan. Does that mean it does not matter? Of course not. We must always do what we can. Show our love and help others.
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Read the Bible.  Help someone in need.
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Proverbs Ch. 22 vs 23-24-25\n\n23) For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.\n \n24) Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:\n \n25) Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
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Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: \n                                Ephesians 4:26\n\n\ndon't walk around angry all the time.anger will eat you up inside \n\nIf you let it.\n\n[  For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: \n   But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. ]\n                                                             Matthew 6:14-15
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since this world is not good, bad things happen to everyone. read proverbs sometime, please? for crying out loud. all the answers are right there!
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Charity and generosity.  I am telling you the truth.  The best cure for bitterness and resentment is charity and generosity.  Even if it is forced in the beginning.\n\nTry it!  It work for me.\n\nGod Bless.
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[aside: try not to judge me by what i'm gonna say-- because everything I say is gonna be from my point of view and what I believe.]\n\nfirstly, it's awesome that you're seeking help-- because in a sense-- that's you fighting back.\n\n... i wish i was smarter or more eloquent in the things i say. but i'll give it a shot.\n\nyou said you've become so used to thinking about this everyday that you don't know what you'd be like without it. how are you with it? like-- do you feel a peace when you think of death?\n\nand if so-- is that because you'd be in a better place? or because you just wouldnt be here in this place.\n\nhonestly-- i just wanna say: i dont know why you feel this way. i'm sorry that you do. but you were meant for more than this. in everything I believe inside, you were made with a purpose by a good God who loved you. but there's also satan, whose main goal is just to steal from this good God the very thing He loves-- His creation.\n\nso to me-- the fact that you've struggled with this since you were so young means to me that you were made for something amazing. just because--why else would satan work so hard to take your life and very purpose away if he didn't feel like you'd be something great in life.\n\ni really am grateful you're still here. and that you've been so strong. and i'm sorry if i trivialized anything or offended you in any way.\n\nim not trying to say "oh. you feel this way? ok-- just means you'll grow more and be better off in the end" >> no not at all. \n\nim so sorry that THIS was the hand you were given. but i really do believe that your life is something to be celebrated. that you have a purpose. i believe that for all of us. \n\ni too struggled with something since i was so so young.and it really did become my identity. i struggled with it for about 15 years, until it was like one day-- God just gave me an answer i didnt even know i was looking for.\n\nfor some reason i asked myself that day-- 'why me? why have i struggled with this since i was... so SO young?' \n\nand i felt so strongly on the inside for the first time in my life God saying-- 'because-- satan knew your potential. and what you could be if you got it right'\n\nand it was actually in that moment that i was freed. i really was. it just-- angered me that the devil cost me 15 years of my life-- but i realized that day that the rest of my life was meant for something. that what the freakin devil meant for evil-- God can use for good.\n\nand so that's what He did in me. i teach kids now... and im pretty much trying to help them deal with what i had to. \n\nwhat im trying to say with all this rambling (sorry about that by the by)... is that your life. matters so much. please-- don't end it. and keep up the good fight. because you were meant for something more than what death has to offer.
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don t worry and be happy\nlive and let live\nbelive in god
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"If" by Rudyard Kipling! Superb! \nA great poem to take you through the bad times, and make you learn more in good times!\n\n----\n\nIf you can keep your head when all about you \nAre losing theirs and blaming it on you; \nIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, \nBut make allowance for their doubting too; \nIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting, \nOr, being lied about, don't deal in lies, \nOr, being hated, don't give way to hating, \nAnd yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; \n\nIf you can dream - and not make dreams your master; \nIf you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; \nIf you can meet with triumph and disaster \nAnd treat those two imposters just the same; \nIf you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken \nTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, \nOr watch the things you gave your life to broken, \nAnd stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; \n\nIf you can make one heap of all your winnings \nAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, \nAnd lose, and start again at your beginnings \nAnd never breath a word about your loss; \nIf you can force your heart and nerve and sinew \nTo serve your turn long after they are gone, \nAnd so hold on when there is nothing in you \nExcept the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; \n\nIf you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, \nOr walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; \nIf neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; \nIf all men count with you, but none too much; \nIf you can fill the unforgiving minute \nWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run - \nYours is the Earth and everything that's in it, \nAnd - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
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Philippians 4:6\nBe anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.\n\nPsalm 42:5\nWhy are you cast down, O my soul?And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance. \n\nPsalm 42:11\nWhy are you cast down, O my soul?And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.\n\nPsalm 43:5\nWhy are you cast down, O my soul?And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
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‘’Be very careful if you make a woman cry, Because God counts her tears, the woman came out of the mans rib, not from his feet to be walked on; not from his head to be superior, but from the side to be his equal, under his arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.’‘\n\nYou will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond\n\nPeople in Life who are the happiest don’t have the best of everything....\nThey make the best of everything they have.\n\n"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." \n- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. \n\nSomewhere there’s’ someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presense that life is worthwhile, So when you are lonely, remember its true, Somebody Somewhere is thinking of you.\n\nIt's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. \n\n"Grass may look greener on the other side, but in reality, its the same shade of green, just a different cut. But there are times when change must happen and we are to MAKE THE BEST OF IT !!!!!!"
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Try Psalm 23. I think thats a good one.
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Have Courage\n\nFather, thank You for comforting and assuring me of Your divine intervention as I walk this journey here on earth. I dwell, remain and settle down under the shadow of the Almighty. I say of the Lord that You are my Refuge, my place of Protection. You are my God, True and Faithful. You are my Security. You did not give me a spirit of fear – but a spirit of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control. In Your name I bind my emotions to the control of the Holy Spirit and go forth with confidence. Amen.
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I don't know if you're a religious person, but since your question is about forgiveness, I'll answer it from a Christian perspective; but please understand that you don't have to be religious in order to benefit from the wisdom of the Bible.  I do not consider myself to be Christian, but I still use many things I read in the Bible to help me through challenges of the spirit such as the one you have describe.\n\nFirst of all, we should ALWAYS forgive others.  Jesus said to forgive people seventy times seven times, which comes out to be 490 times.  If you have to forgive someone more times than that, they are probably so evil that it's not going to matter whether you forgive them or not; at that point your best best would bwe to just get the hell away from them!  LOL\n\nBut I think what he meant was to forgive as much as you possibly can.  But you sound very young to me- it sounds like there's not a whole lot you can do OTHER than forgive; sadly, we are basically powerless in our youth to change the behavior of others, so you'd better forgive wholeheartedly and do it RIGHT.  The following information is lengthy, but it will help you learn all you need to know about forgiveneness:\n\n- This is not an optional action on our part, but rather it is imperative to our own well being that we forgive others.\n- Most Christians understand that this is not always an easy task.\n- For some, there have been people in their lives which have wronged them severly.\n\n- Though it may be a process, and it may not happen instantaneously, we must be willing to take the first steps toward forgiving others.\n- As long as we continue to harbor bitterness in our hearts toward someone else, we allow that individual to have a controlling factor in our lives.\n- There are a number of occasions where unforgiving Christians lose their relationship with God because of what someone else had done to them in the church.\n\n- There was once a man who lost his relationship not only with God, but also his children and people in the church because of his bitterness toward others. He basically went around feeling sorry for himself all the time.\n- To forgive means to "send away". In other words, to not hang on to the wrong doing.\n\n- When you forgive someone, it means that you are not holding that sin against that person.\n- Therefore, you're not focused on how you can get back at that person.\n- You're not praying that their boat will sink or that their plane will crash.\n- As a matter of fact, you actually begin to pray for their salvation and deliverance.\n\n- Understand that when you forgive someone, it doesn't mean that you have to re-establish a relationship with that person.\n- It may, by God's will, lead to that and that's great if that's what God desires.\n- In the verse, there's no mention that you should stop praying and go find that person to let them know that you forgive them.\n- Release the thought of anger and bitterness and hurt unto God.\n\n- Forgiveness does not mean, by the way, to forget.\n- Trying to forget is merely an attempt to hide something.\n- When you hide something, someone will eventually find it.\n- We're are to deal with he hurt and send it away.\n\n- Jesus didn't just preach this. He lived this.\n\n(Luke 23:33-34 NKJV) And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left.Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.\n\nFORGIVING OTHERS HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND AND RECEIVE FORGIVENESS\n\n(Mat 6:14-15 NKJV) "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."\n\n- It seems as if God's ability to forgive us is contingent upon our ability to forgi
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Hi\nIn a way this thread is a good experience for you.\nThough you are undergoing truama, and you need support and consolation, some times it is also important that you should know all good things in the world are not sweet. Often many good things come with a bitter taste.\n\nSome one answered you using blunt words. But have you noticed the emphasis? Even that person want you to get a professional advice and come out of your present depressed state of mind. \n\nThe world is like that. The world want to give you very very good things. But when the world give you a very precious thing ,  often that will have a bitter taste. Some time it may look ugly. \n\nNow as an intelligent girl like you, it is yoru duty to take the good things carefully removing the bitterness. Or some times some medicines need to be bitter in taste.\n\nBe realistic. Try to ignore bad, hard, painful expereinces. Hey, you have got a lot of wonderful friends now to help you and support you. But dont you think, you need to support them back tomorrow? YOU SHOULD!! Do you think we are never depressed? Who will support us when we need your help? \n\nCome on! Dont waste time. Go and consult some one now. I am not familiar with UK system. But I asked a UK citizen. That person told me about "samaritan", which obviously you know. But I dont know who can actually give you help from near. \n\nPlease understand the beautiful rose flowers often are found among thorns. Let us not focus on thorns. Let us see the beauty of the Flower with shining morning dews.  These are the beautiful moments in life. After a few years, you will find all these bitter experience as an opportunity to broaden your world outlook and improve your personality. It is bad that these horrible things happened to you. But it is good that (I am talking from my experience) that these horrible things happened to you in an early age. Tomorrow, you will have a pleasing personality. These bad experience will give you strength to be compassionate to others around you. You will never be a mean person like many others. \n\nBut right now it is not time to think of all these. And I know you are under extreme pressure and can not swallow any of these. As many suggested here, you need professional advice. Suggestions and opinion from friends like us is not same as a professional help from an expert. Please understand this. Again, we can not stop the production of some "hormones or chemicals" in our brain. Again I am not suggesting that you need to take medicines. I am not an expert. You need to consult an experience professional to undestand what is more important to you.\n\nBut what we are all sure about is, that, you need not worry about anything. You can definitely come out of this stage. Most people, who normally find difficult to come out of their depression is those who lacks "insight". I am sure any medical expert or psychologist will readily agree with me that you have good insight. That is the key.