THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
January 27
It is an unbreakable mental law
that you have to forgive others
if you want to demonstrate over your difficulties
and to make any 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 the short of it.
You do this, not for the other person’s sake,
but for your own 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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