FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US

Forgiveness isn’t always easy.  Sometimes is seems impossible to forgive someone who has hurt us deeply.  Our heart has been broken and we are expected to forgive the person who hurt us, that doesn’t seem fair, especially when they have no regrets about their actions.  But, what about the times you hurt someone?  Did you have remorse?  Did you as forgiveness?  Did you think, “They deserved it because of the way they acted towards me.”  We have all hurt others whether or not we meant to.  We don’t want to see our “shadow side”, the side of us that is considered sinful.  It’s painful to realize that we have a dark side.

Mr. Clark tells us that: IF YOU HATE JUST ONE INDIVIDUAL IN THE WORLD, BY JUST THAT MUCH YOU ARE SEPARATED FROM GOD HIMSELF.

Think about that statement.  Are our feet like hind’s feet?  No, our feet have failed to track true.  If we have cause injustice to anyone, we have done an injustice to God.  If we have lied to just one person, then we have lied to God.  If we have hated just one person, then we have hated our Father.  How can Creator God forgive us, if we can’t or will not forgive others?  We have to forgive others before He can forgive us.

Jesus tells us that, “For if you forgive men their trespasses , your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.”

How do we go about seeing our “shadow side” and having reconciliation with it?  Take out a piece of paper, make a list of the qualities you have in the shadows that you don’t want to admit to having, even to yourself.  Try to make the list as complete as possible.  This list is just between you and Father God.  Be honest, absolutely honest with yourself.  Once your list is complete, look over it very carefully.  As, you look at each fault, see the side of that emotion or action that is the opposite.  Behind greed is generosity, behind anger is love.  Once you have completed this task, take the piece of paper and burn it.  Release the shadow side to God and ask Father to forgive you.  As the paper burns with the list of transgressions you have listed, you are being forgiven and released from these burdens.  From the ashes, rises a brand-new self which you so eagerly wish to become.

When we are sick, we lie on the bed and rest and wait for our body to begin to heal.  The blood cleanses our body of the impurities, draws away the pus from the injured and infected tissues and restores them.  The blood has the power to rebuild tissues that have been destroyed.  Next the blood has the power of controlling the development of any part of the body, a power that reaches into the future.

The power of blood means the power of love! If blood can bring recovery to the body, love has the power to redeem the wounds of the personality.  Love can make the wounded personality whole again, until it becomes a child of God.  Open your heart to absolute trust in this cleansing of the personality as Father forgives you.

Meditation

Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool (Isa. 1:18).

Prayer

Father God, we thank you that You are a God of unlimited compassion, willing and able to grant to us far more than we ask of you.  Blot out all our transgressions, clean us of all iniquity, redeem our hungry, thirsting souls.  Hold us in Your love forever.  Amen    (pages 31 – 35)