“When you assume the posture of prayer, remember that it’s not all asking. If you have anything against someone, forgive—only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins.”
People sometimes assume God should do everything for them. And God does love us with an unqualified generosity and care. But we also have responsibility to God—to live per His plan for life revealed in the Bible. And part of that plan is to forgive those who offend us. We must live in the Love that God is, to feel that Love in our life on a consistent basis.
So true Evan, we do feel the love of God whenever we forgive from our heart. Most importantly we feel free, lighter, happier and more peaceful, if we get into the good habit of forgiving. Keeping grudges, hatred and animosity in our heart, does not do any good either to us or the ones who offended us. Moreover hateful feelings only invite disease, discord and downfall.
We forgive because God wants us to love each other and forgive each other. Our Father Mother God showers us with abundant blessings. A lovely gift which we can offer to God, is our love and forgiveness to each of His children. That way forgiveness becomes easier.
Secondly we open up the way for our wrongs to be forgiven..if we forgive.
God certainly cancels out our wrongdoings if we forgive those who wrong us. Isn’t that a wonderful thing???
Thirdly if we forgive each other, God dwells with us and we abundantly receive His mercy and goodness, love and blessings. Hatred and animosity is a barrier to the healing grace of God… So if we want our healing, we need to embrace everyone in love, forgive and forget the harm done to us.
We should never forget the most important lesson our way shower, Christ Jesus taught us….He was drained of his last drop of blood on the cross. Yet he prayed for the ones who gave him the cross. ” Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” Doesn’t this ever shining example make forgiveness easier for us?
What a beautiful version of Mark 11:25 The Message presents! Love this post. So Christian. 🙂
Nergish, your contribution today is just so healing. In light of the events yesterday in London, this post has special meaning. To forgive those who hate and wreck havoc is especially challenging. I am humbly asking God to forgive any hate in my heart towards those misguided ones who attack innocents.
This is a wonderful guide for staying close to God and living harmoniously. Thank you, Evan
For me forgiveness is not the same as forgiving error, it is the ready acceptance of divine love to accommodate all of God’s creation into the principle of truth. To do this one must separate the identity of spiritually created man from the erroneous human act or misconception. We are all sometimes caught in learning about the truth of being and our challenge is to see ourselves and others as originally created spiritual reflection of that one infinite source through divine love. Each of us has the challenge to accept divine love as the ultimate source of power and grace, the scientific fact of being. But we don’t have to accept error as truth. That would be stupid and make us vulnerable to error a second time. We need to know that the act of error will end as nothing as all self destructive acts end. When we release any emotion associated with the act of error or misconception, we do not have to carry that heavy load, which in the end is really nothing, and thus we are free of that act or misconception.
I was working with my teacher on a meditation before she passed. I meditated for a quite a while on just the word- forgiveness, saying I forgive, before we added other parts to the meditation. That word never ceases to make me feel I have just heard it for the first time every time I utter it.
I rise above
the human condition
When I do, I see the
world differently
People suffering
heads looking down
The higher realms of
thought, they see not
at least for now
When I rise above
the human condition
I see myself differently
I don’t exist, except as
an individualized expression
of Christ….
These eyes see in the
ancient ways
The original ways
In the knowing ways
The Loving ways
When I rise above
the human condition
all anxiety about my life
leaves, for I have no life,
Save that of Mind
Save that of Love
Save that of Christ realized
When I rise above
the human condition
The goodness from Love
is the only possible
experience
One can have,
We rise to meet
in Love
Good Morning Spiritview Family!
Feeling grateful in the realization
that, in fact, as it is being revealed to us
from ever-present Truth,
that we can ONLY love, only forgive.
Reflecting God, we have no choice!
The illusion that we live in a realm apart from
our relationship with God is…just that: illusion
a misconception.
We can and do (and “must”) only forgive!
How wonderful!
(Nice poem, Maximo!)
Live in Love, all !
:-)))
we do not need to forgive God, he is with us always
Thank you for this important reminder…
Such beautiful thoughts all uplifting us to the spiritual perspective of Truth: We are created in the image and likeness of God.” I then take it to that dematerialization fo thought which to me can seem difficult at timesas the mortal seemings of that seeming outer world come in on us immediately and need to be canceled with Truth of our Being. Turing to forgiveness of ourselves first for even allowing error to enter in our thinking, we can then help our neighbor with those Truths expressed:” I am a perfect spiritual child of God reflecting and expressing his infinite love” and, so is evveryone else. God has purer eyes than to behond anything evil , as it is not in his concept of his perfect creation. Therefore I am humbled to feel that oneness……hold it close, and by reflection become a better transparency for it in daily work and yes, humbly love more realizing I am Love..and so is everyone else. The past then dissolves..as it has done what it needed to do, and there is no future..so living in tbe NOW I humbly can go out and reflect God’s service knowing there is no evil, no error , only in what I might see…in error…so if I can but reflect as I am told to do by the Father of Lights…then I can simply serve the best I can shedding the light in humility and grace… Thank you for all these inspiring moving ideas…Merri
Merrilyn… such a beautiful approach to daily life you are expressing…. I try to do the same, because the results are immediate and goodness, demonstrated, is the result
Forgiveness is one of the most important steps in our growth Spiritward. Without it, the anger, hurt, and resentment we hold in our hearts become rocks which cause us to be heavy-laden and to stumble. Forgiveness lightens the load, especially when that forgiveness is rooted in the love of God, divine Love. “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” Then the error we were holding on to is gone for good. We are free! And God’s love, mercy, and forgiveness are found to be supreme.
Oh Daphne, thats so good and true and healing what you wrote, thank you very much 🙂
Thanks a lot Evan for the opportunity to exchange such healing comments like today through your loving SpiritViews 😉
Josef, Maximo. Merrilyn thank you so much for your comments relating to our Evan’s blog. I needed all this today. As Uta said, thank you Evan for the opportunity to exchange such healing comments like today through your loving SpiritViews
I too, must remember to forgive and forget. “the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts” (SH 497:11 the). Sin is not of God; therefore, it does not exist. Why sow sin or not forget it? “we should go forth into life with the smallest expectations, but with the largest patience; with a keen relish for and appreciation of everything beautiful, great, and good, but with a temper so genial that the friction of the world shall not wear upon our sensibilities; with an equanimity so settled that no passing breath nor accidental disturbance shall agitate or ruffle it; with a charity broad enough to cover the whole world’s evil, and sweet enough to neutralize what is bitter in it, — determined not to be offended when no wrong is meant, nor even when it is, unless the offense be against God” (Mis. 224:17 we).
Thank you Evan and all for your helpful replies to today’s blog. It’s a great lesson to keep in mind.