Jesus made it clear that you can’t receive God’s grace and then refuse to give it to others. If God’s forgiven your sins, you can’t continue keeping track of the sins of others. If you do, if you hold on to the bitterness, your hurt will become hatred. It will poison you, and the infection will spread, and the not-so-subtle insinuation is that it could lead you to miss out on grace altogether. So instead of holding on to the bitterness of what was done to you, hold it up, realize it’s not sparking joy, and get rid of it.
