AS WE FORGIVE
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
February 14
As we repeat the Great Prayer intelligently,
we are suddenly caught up
and grasped as though in a vise,
so that we must face
this problem of separation from God.
We must extend forgiveness to everyone.
Notice that Jesus does not say,
"Forgive me my trespasses
and I will try to forgive others."
He obliges us to declare
that we have actually forgiven,
and he makes our claim to our forgiveness
to depend upon that.
Who could be so insane as to endeavor,
to seek the Kingdom of God without desiring
to be relieved of his own sense of guilt?
We are trapped in the inescapable position
that we cannot demand our own release
before we have released our brother.
“Search me, 0 God, and know my heart:
try me, and know my thoughts.”
Psalm 139:23
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