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chardelle

chardelle
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07/30/2015 18:03

forgiveness

“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”
Ephesians
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another…….”
Hebrews
While reading the Lesson Sermon this week it has become clear to me that what I thought to be forgiveness may not be adequate in God’s command. So, I need to take a good look at myself and include love in forgiving the actions of someone. I must do this or I am not obeying God and Christ’s command. I think the following words are from a hymn: Oh Father give me a loving and contrite heart, that I may loving be...




 
Florence

Florence
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07/31/2015 05:46

Re: forgiveness

How true! Love is forgiveness! If Love is seeing another correctly; then you can forgive when you impersonalize the wrong no matter how real it appears to attach itself to someone. Rebuke the error but see its nothingness!!

When I remembered that God's child is His expression with no quality unlike God, I could then humbly separate error from my thought of man and forgive. See the nothingness of the wrong done, give it no channel to use and you can see the end of it, ...you then will see that right where the error appeared so real had been Love, which fills all space.




 
jacob45

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08/02/2015 05:09

Re: forgiveness

Yes, what we dislike in others is the lie about them.