The heaviest thing to carry through life is a grudge. I would say that it’s one of the scariest things to carry through life too. It’s scary because you carry the risk of dying before you’ve taken the opportunity to forgive, repent, apologize, reconcile or resolve.
During our lives we all encounter people and conditions that wrongs us in some way. It may be deliberate or not. It may surface from a misunderstanding or a lack of communications. It is you who decides to take the path you will take.
So many people burden themselves with carrying the heavy load of a grudge.
If you think about what happens to the individual who carries a grudge it can be scary. They begin to do irrational things. They become sort of a pathological case. They begin to lose the center of objectivity when you hold a grudge. Reality is distorted, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. When you hold grudges it ultimately destroys you as much as it does your spirit towards the one you are begrudged to.
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with getting mad or upset with someone or something. What’s important is why you’re upset and what you do afterwards.
Even Jesus got upset in Matthew 21:11-15, but it’s what he did afterwards that is what was important. When you see something happening that is wrong, what will you do about it? Will you sit quietly and say or do nothing or will you stand up for truth regardless of whom it is.
We all know people who hold grudges. The question you need to ask yourself is what if tomorrow was judgment day and God ask you, “Why do you hold a grudge or malice towards someone in your heart?” How will you answer the question? What you hold in your heart may be the deciding factor that holds you from Heaven.
Live, speak, and uphold the truth in all that you do and you will find that life becomes much easier to live. When you live in truth you have nothing to hide or run from.
