Ezekiel 35:5
“I’m doing this because you’ve kept this age-old grudge going against Israel…”
“Your eternal hatred for the people of Israel led you to butcher them when they were helpless.”
The chapter goes to tell of Edom’s judgement for holding and acting upon an old grudge. We think our grudges are under control, but they silently wait like a spider at the center of a web, menacing and destructive. They poison far more than we know, like an iceberg hulking beneath the surface. It seems the Lord rarely heals them outright. Rather we are needily thrown upon his mercy over and over. Not such a bad thing.
Lord, search my heart. Show me my wicked ways that I may repent and be healed. May I ever look to you for deliverance. Do not let me fall victim to my grudges and go astray from your loving embrace.