"I Defended It!"

I want to share something that I read today -

"For years bitterness was my daily companion . . . Do you know what I learned . . ? I learned that bitterness is a parasite. Every day it eats away at you until finally nothing is left, and you become a walking shell with no feelings, no friends, no life. And do you want to know the strangest thing about bitterness? All the time it was devouring me, I defended it! Because I believed I had a right to be bitter."

What a fascinating quote! Even more fascinating to me was the fact that it was part of a fictional book I was reading, not some deep theological or devotional text.

Once upon a time, I knew some people who had no use for fiction because they believed that it was just another form of deceit since it wasn't "truth." But in my life, God has repeatedly used fictional books with characters who don't exist and situations that have never really occurred to stir me, to convict me, to change me.

I'm glad I serve a God who works like that.