THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS
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 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 and things that rot your soul. Such things fasten you r 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 yea are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing (1 Peter 3:9)
© 1931 by Emmet Fox
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I am happy to find this! I’m traveling and didn’t carry my book with me, and find Fox’s work thought provoking and uplifting. I can tell it was scanned or typed in, and would be happy to proofread as we go along if you could allow that.
ReplyDeleteThank you again for this mobile trip around the year with Emmett Fox.