Around the Year With Emmet Fox - 27 January
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Around the Year With Emmet Fox - 27 January
THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS
It is an unbreakable mental law that you have to forgive others if you want ot demonstrate over your difficulties and to make nay real spiritual progress. The vital importance of forgiveness may not be obvious at first sight, but you may be sure that it is not by chance that every great spiritual teacher from Jesus Christ downward has insisted so strongly upon it.
You must forgive injuries, not just in words, or as a matter of form, but in your heart - and that is the long and short of it. You do this, not for the other person's sake. Resentment, condemnation, anger, desire to see someone punished are things that rot your soul. Such things fasten your troubles to you with rivets. They fetter you to many other problems that actually have nothing whatever to do with the original grievances themselves.
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing (1 Peter 3:9)
It is an unbreakable mental law that you have to forgive others if you want ot demonstrate over your difficulties and to make nay real spiritual progress. The vital importance of forgiveness may not be obvious at first sight, but you may be sure that it is not by chance that every great spiritual teacher from Jesus Christ downward has insisted so strongly upon it.
You must forgive injuries, not just in words, or as a matter of form, but in your heart - and that is the long and short of it. You do this, not for the other person's sake. Resentment, condemnation, anger, desire to see someone punished are things that rot your soul. Such things fasten your troubles to you with rivets. They fetter you to many other problems that actually have nothing whatever to do with the original grievances themselves.
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing (1 Peter 3:9)
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