“As surely as God lives, who has denied me
justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul, as long as I
have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils, my lips will not speak
wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit.” - Job 27:2-4
In 1824, the Prussian government decreed that
a long-standing practice that Non-Christians could not attend schools was to be
enforced. A Jewish attorney named Hirschel, who lived in Trier, Germany,
converted to Christianity in order not to be discriminated.
Hirschel’s six-year old son Karl could not
understand the situation. The boy asked his father: "Why must we surrender
our Jewish faith and start to attend Lutheran services here in Germany?”
The father replied, "Son, we must
abandon our faith so that people will accept us and support our business
adventures!" The young lad never got over his disappointment and
bitterness. His faith in his father and in his religion were crushed.
After Karl graduated from the Berlin
University, he went to England to study at the British Museum where he formed
his philosophies for life. From those intensive investigations he wrote a book
that changed the world called, The Communist Manifesto. From that book
one-third of the world fell under the spell of godless Marxist ideology.
The
name of that little boy was Karl Marx. He influenced billions of lives for more
than 100 years and brought to them ruin, imprisonment and death.
Whatever bitterness you have tasted, do not
let it wickedness or deceit consume you. Today in prayer, thank the Lord that
in Christ, you are a victor over all sin and death and pray that bitterness
does not take a hold of you.
“Bitterness is like drinking poison and
waiting for the other person to die.” Ron McManus,
God’s Word: “Get rid of all bitterness, rage
and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.” - Ephesians
4:31
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