“This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:22-23 NIV)
The Hatfield-McCoy feud began in 1863, when the Hatfields fought the McCoys on the Kentucky-West Virginia border. Historians disagree on the reasons for the feud; some say it began with a pig theft, others say it was because of a secret romance. Whatever the reason, it caused the death of more than one hundred men, women, and children. More than a century later, in May 1976, Jim McCoy and Willis Hatfield, the last two survivors of the original families, shook hands. The survivors came together to build a monument memorializing the victims of the feud. Jim McCoy died in 1984, at the age of ninety-nine. He bore no grudges, and the Hatfield Funeral Home handled the burial.
We know the reason for the feud between God and [human beings] -- sin. But God was willing to meet us at a monument on the hill of Calvary. He was willing to bury His grudge in a tomb sealed with a stone. What about you? Are you still feuding with God? Perhaps it’s time to accept the invitation to meet Jesus at the cross and bury your grudges along with your past.
-- Lenya Heitzig and Penny Pierce Rose in “Pathways to God’s Treasure: Ephesians”
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