Ephesians 4:31-32 (GW)
31 Get rid of your bitterness, hot tempers, anger, loud quarreling, cursing, and hatred.
32 Be kind to each other, sympathetic, forgiving each other as God has forgiven you through Christ.

We have established that poison is not good for anyone. We don’t deliberately and intentionally consume something toxic just because we can, then, why would we exhibit characters and behaviours that are unscriptural and does not glorify the Father. We should be alert to spiritual and personal poisons. 1 Peter 5:8.
Some poisons are fast-acting, they instantly do a lot of damage whether we know it’s in us or not while others slowly eat away at us and may, eventually destroy us. Self-evaluation is important in all walks of life, especially spiritual evaluation, Haggai 1:5. Yes, it is highly encouraged to take time out to consider your ways: character, attitude, behaviour, and beliefs to make sure you’ve not strayed from the path of godliness.
Slothfulness according to Proverbs19:15 is a killer, a killer of dreams, visions, and passion, it’s referred to as “the state of deep sleep,” this shows how utterly indifferent you can get when you’re slothful. Let proverbs 6:6 be your slogan, have a go-getter mentality and not a no goer’s mentality.
We might all express and exhibit some greed at some point in life even when we shouldn’t, according to Exodus 20:17. We can’t be like Rehoboam who lost everything out of selfish demand and motivated greed and power in 1 chronicles10:1-19. The fabric of society is systematically being dismantled because of the poison of greed, the desire to grasp after things for “self, “Proverbs 21:25-26.
Unforgiveness is a poison we consciously consume because we haven’t learnt to allow Christ’s right to take over our right and to this end, a lot of people have destroyed their health and life because they insist on overdosing on the pills of bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness. A glance at Matthew 18:23-35 shows us that unforgiveness is a dual carriageway; you hold yourself bound in whatever prison you lock others in because of your malice and unforgiveness.
There is a Peter in us all needing to know if we must, and how often we must forgive others. Notice that Jesus didn’t even address the issues of “if,” but rather the conclusion from the Lord’s point is 70×70 times. That is 4,900 times. Divided by 365 days is 13.5 times a day. You can’t possibly offend someone that many times in a day, could you? It just means, there shouldn’t be a limit to how many times we forgive others, and according to Colossians 3:13, we must bear with others and be quick to let go of hurt, resentment and malice. Is your anger doing you or anyone else any good? Is it solving the problems? Is it changing the person you are angry with? Is your anger increasing your joy and peace? No!
Forgiveness is not an easy process. It can often involve struggle and resistance and expose the heart attitude of both the forgiver and the forgiven but once the door to forgiveness is opened, the results are remarkable. The only answer to anger is forgiveness. It begins with our decision to not only obey God but to do ourselves a favour and forgive.
These poisons are so easy to consume yet so difficult to overcome, but the Lord can still help us overcome all and heal us of every hurt from them.
Shalom