Growing up, my mum
trusted in extremely old domestic helps. I mean really old, so when I was in
high school we had one particularly old one, she was the sweetest old lady I
have ever met and we so fondly called her ‘gogo’, that means grandma. She had
one major weakness though! Cooking. She was the worst cook ever. We had a small
vegetable garden and she would go to that garden and collect anything green and
called it vegetable. The outcome was an extremely bitter grill that we liked to
call leaves-grill. It was sometimes bitter, sometimes tasteless, sometimes
plain gross. It never really had a constant taste (what with the random mixes) and
you had to take it with a smile! It’s a miracle I didn't die of food poisoning,
like literally.
See that’s exactly
what we do with our lives, we go round ingesting poison, unlike the bitter
herbs, we never really feel anything while taking that poison. Infact sometimes
the poison is really sweet and the sweet feeling lasts for just a while.
2 Kings 4:38-44
And they
poured out some for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the stew,
they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not
eat it. 41He said, “Then bring flour.” And he threw it into the pot and
said, “Pour some out for the men, that they may eat.” And there was no harm in
the pot.
When
the pot of stew was set forth before the prophets, they tasted it and found out
it was poisoned. The herbs weren’t real herbs but some sort of poison leaves.
Elisha was used by God, to cure that poisoned pot of stew. Chances are you also
have poisoned stew in your life! But good thing is God can cure it completely
if only you could identify the poison. Please note that you can’t cure the
poison on your own!
How does poison kill?
All poisons (toxins) cause
cell membrane defects because toxins make them rigid/stiff, which means that:
- Nutrients,
hormones, and water are not as able to get into the cells where they are
needed to provide energy, and to repair, rebuild, and detoxify themselves.
- All organs,
functions, and systems throughout the body are not as able to function
like they should.
This is exactly what
happens with spiritual poison except we don’t die physically but spiritually. They chock up
your desire for God, Slowly you start to draw away from God, You start desiring
things that are WRONG, you start going back to your old habits and you become blinded and eventually you become unable
to interpret the word of God.
So pick your poison from the below list!
1. Unforgiveness
I struggled with
this for a very long time. I liked to keep things in my heart and hold grudges
for like forever. Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting. It simply means that you
have made peace with the event and are able to talk about it without
necessarily screaming like a maniac. I realized the power of forgiving. It
simply sets you free! Holding grudges is like taking poison and expecting the
other person to die! Newsflash you will die from mental depression and even
diseases like ulcers! You can’t forgive a brother or a sister yet you expect
God in heaven to forgive you? Matthew 6:14-15 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
2. Bitterness.
I believe that
bitterness is like a garbage truck, It carries around a lot of JUNK and even collects more junk along the way and
when it hits a bump or a bend it unknowingly spills out the garbage on the
people nearby. That’s exactly what bitterness does. You will unknowingly spill
out your junk to people you meet during the day, from your helper, to colleagues, to your spouse. You spill bitter words. This happens mostly because of things
that happened in our past. Unresolved issues. Bitterness is
for sure a spiritual poison and thing is it is not easily visible. It’s not
like anger, mostly a bitter person will always strive to bring others down or
ensure that people around aren’t happy. The downside of bitterness is it’s that
it’s a root and before taking it to God you ought to take a self-audit of your
life and see where the feeling began. Was it from childhood? Most women become
bitter from failed relationships and are now in bondage because of that
bitterness. Take it to God and be free!
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice
3. Anger
This I struggled with! And maybe I still do, but one thing that I know is that I am not perfect
I am a work in progress. An angry person speaks angry words at the heat of the
moment and tries to justify them by saying that they were angry. They claim that
they are bold enough to always speak their mind but truth is God has given us
the spirit of self control! The bible says that be angry BUT do not sin.
Abusive words is a sin. Those long abusive texts mmm, no no. Did you know that wreckless words pierce like a sword? You should learn to manage your anger the Godly way. Do simple things like moving away from the person when you feel anger rising, avoid speaking and just excuse yourself. Do not do something permanently stupid because of a temporary feeling. I noticed that when you speak softly you even gain more respect! James 1:20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
4. Emotional instability
We women are known
to be extremely emotional creatures. Given. But that does not mean that you
allow yourself to be lead by how you feel at a particular moment. To act out
because you are in a bad mood. To ignore your spouse because you had a long day
at work. To not come to God just because things aren't going your way? Allowing ourselves to be controlled by our feelings is a spiritual
poison! You have allowed yourself to be enslaved by your emotions. You don’t say
hi to people when you walk into the office because someone hit your car on your
way. Do NOT be a slave to your emotions. Emotions are unreliable, we mustn’t direct
our lives according to how we feel. Manage your emotions. Again call on the
Lord to give you the gift of self control.
5. Malice, slander and Jealousy
I have put these
three together because they are more or less interloped. You slander because
you envy someone. Malice also crops out of envy. These are roots that you ought
to deal with and fast! How do you know you are jealous? If something good
happens to someone like a marriage or new baby or a new job and you feel like
there is a knot in your heart instead of genuine joy, then there you need Jesus
like seriously. Slander is the deep desire to ruin someone’s reputation and all
that. This is a poison that will slowly eat you up and you will wonder why you
are not progressing in life.
6. Sex.
Such a awesome thing, right? BUT should only be done in the proper way, meaning with your lawfull spouse.
Sex leads to so many things from emotional ties to soul ties and I once blogged
about that here. Of soul ties. We should learn to stop yielding to the desires of our body
and wait for the one. How will the one find you if you continue to entangle yourself in someone else's arms?
The Good news is
that God can remove all the poison from you and make you brand new! He gives us
a million chances to start over.