We have either held a grudge ourselves or have witnessed other people holding a grudge or unforgiveness towards other people. If we have ever felt that someone was holding a grudge against us, we know the unpleasant feeling of wanting to be released from their hostility towards us. When we repent of our sins and come to faith in Christ, God in a very real sense releases us from his hostility and the enmity that we once experienced towards Him, and may have not even realize it. In 2 Corinthians 5:19 it says “that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.” What this means is that before accepting God’s salvation and forgiveness, we were indebted to God every time we sinned. Our sins were being counted and accumulated right until the point of our death and would be judged by God in a place called Hell for all eternity. Because we rejected God’s offer of salvatio...