Empty Pockets

We all have things that have been done to us in life, wrongs committed against us, people who have let us down, hurts unresolved (maybe even anger at ourselves) - whatever it was, it will have to be forgiven. There is no other way into His kingdom without it. This is one area where Christ left no room for interpretation. The worst thing done to you, the most terrible thing imagined, it has to be let go. There can't be one single grudge held onto, no matter how secretly concealed, no matter how much we think we must hold onto it, as we enter the Door. No matter how long we have carried it or how valuable it seems or (horror of horrors) how much a part of us it has become, it will have to be removed. We must, so to speak, empty our pockets of all this nonsense. Perhaps it is only by first emptying our pockets that we can ever hope to have them filled with the amazing, wonderful things He has stored up for us.