“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.” Another is just like it and perhaps equally or more damning – this one from Marianne Williamson – it goes, “Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.”

The reason I use both quotes is that they both are self-fulfilling prophecies that we do to ourselves by not forgiving. We inflict the additional damage on ourselves, not realizing this compound the issues stemming from the original acts that cause the unforgiveness to begin with. It’s a double-death! Here’s the third-death and the worse death we get from unforgiveness that most don’t know, or don’t realize – God does not and will not forgive our sins unless we forgive others! Yes, it’s true and here is the scripture to back this up –

Matt. 6:14 “For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Matt. 6:15 “But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.

When we repent and confess our sins, as a believer, the Lord will grant us relief from His discipline, but Jesus says in Matthew 6 that if a believer is so hardhearted that he or she withholds forgiveness in earthly relationships, then the Lord will withhold His forgiveness for that person's sins as well, which means the Lord will visit earthly discipline against such a hardhearted believer.

How many more hours or days or years do you want to remain in bondage over a person who God can help free you from in the blink of an eye? The answer to that belongs to you and rests solely on your shoulders, or in this case, your heart and your faith in God. Don’t wait another day!