Peace be unto you! The lesson I give to you today is on forgiveness:
To forgive is to abandon all ill thoughts and unkindness toward any person, place, or thing.
So many of my people harbor unkind thoughts and even hatred of worldly
problems, of family
members, of friends, of co-workers, of working environments, of government,
and even of religions
or religious figures. Why? What does hate and envy and jealousy get
you? Notice, I place envy and
jealousy in this category because so much hate stems from these two
evil characteristics. Men are so deceiving and unhappy. Why is this so?
Because men are caught up with the world's way of instilling
greed, lust, and jealous feelings in their hearts. What good does this
hate do for the people of the
world? None at all! For if you harbor any kind of hate in your heart,
it is like placing a dark veil over
your heart so that the light of goodness and love cannot penetrate
it. Your heart becomes cold and
hard, and soon you are so unhappy that not even children, in their
innocence, can make you feel
alive. For if hatred is allowed to continue, your body and soul becomes
as stone, not viable to any
happiness and certainly not even remotely concerned about the world,
especially its Creator.
The world and its people must learn to forgive. Forgive your enemies;
forgive your family and your
neighbors. Do not let this boil of hatred fester and become a disease
that will cause the fever of
hatred to embroil your heart and make it delirious with unhappiness.
Remember me, your God. I forgave all my enemies, even those who put
me to death. I cautioned all
my followers to forgive their en-emies. For I knew what hatred can
do to a man's soul. It is the death of a soul. A man filled with hatred
cannot love, and if a man cannot love, he loses the zest of the soul. The
soul shrinks, like a prune, when it is not nurtured by love, and a shrunken
soul soon withers and
dies. Hatred is like the venom of a deadly snake that winds around
a man's soul and soon chokes it
to death. This is why I need to warn all my people against this deadly
misery.
Forgive and love--get the bitterness, the envy, the jealousy, the anger
out of your heart; take the
black veil of hatred and deceit off; and let the love of God penetrate
your soul, so once more it will
feel the warmth of the Son's love and become well and in tune with
its Creator.
Love, not hate, is the answer to man's problems. No matter who sits
on the high government seat, no matter how beautiful the world is, no matter
what circumstance man might find himself in, it will not
help the man who has the seed of hate planted in his heart; for this
seed will grow and choke the life
from man, and he will never know the true meaning of happiness and
peace that emanates from this
heavenly kingdom. Mankind must forgive--man must learn to nurture the
spark of love that was
implanted at birth. He must give up the folly of hate that does ruin
to his soul. He must turn away
from that evil destroyer of man and come once more into the light of
his Creator.
Man must learn to love, so he must cast away every evil thought of hate,
no matter what reason he
accounts for the hatred. He must turn, instead, to the love that emanates
from God's kingdom and
then, and only then, will mankind find the peace and love that he so
desperately needs. TIME IS
GETTING SHORT. DO NOT PUT OFF ANY LONGER YOUR FORGIVENESS TO
ANYONE YOU HARBOR ILL THOUGHTS, NO MATTER BE IT FRIEND, FOE, NATION,
POLITICAL [LEADER], OR CHURCH, FOR SOON IT WILL BE TOO LATE. I GIVE
YOU
THIS WARNING. NOW GO AND TELL IT TO ALL MY PEOPLE.
I remain your friend and loving teacher,
JESUS
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