"Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First, go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.” — Matthew 5:23-24

If you’ve spent any amount of time at all in the church, someone has hurt you. Or you have hurt someone. Or, more likely, both.

We are human. We fall short of the glory of God. We sin.

We disagree. We argue. We carry grudges. We cry and cause tears.

But what did Jesus say?

Could our Lord and Savior have spoken any more clearly in the Sermon on the Mount?

“Go and be reconciled,” Jesus said.

As a new year dawns, what better time to make a fresh start with a brother or sister who has something against you?