DEMONSTRATING FORGIVENESS Around the Year with Emmet Fox

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DEMONSTRATING FORGIVENESS

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

February 15

 

“And as ye would that men should do to you,

do ye also to them likewise.”

Luke 6:31

 

The forgiveness of others

 is the vestibule of Heaven.

You have to get rid of all resentment

and condemnation of others, and, no least,

of self-condemnation and remorse.

You have to forgive yourself

but you cannot forgive yourself sincerely

until you have forgiven others first.

Of course, nothing in the entire world

is easier than to forgive people

who have not hurt us very much.

But what the Law of Being requires of us

is that we forgive the very things

that are so hard to forgive that at first

it seems impossible to do it at all.

But the Lord's Prayer

makes our own escape from guilt

and limitation dependent

 upon just this very thing.

If your prayers are not being answered,

search your consciousness and see

if there is not some old circumstance

about which you are still resentful.

Search and see

 if you are not really holding a grudge

against some individual, or some group.

If so, then you have

an act of forgiveness to perform,

and when this is done,

you will probably make your demonstration.

If you cannot forgive at present,

you will have to wait

for your demonstration until you can,

and you will have to postpone

finishing your recital of the Lord's Prayer too.