Forgiveness

1. What is forgiveness?
It makes you wonder why and how Jesus ever could have said that we are to forgive others, not seven times, but seven times seventy. How this brings up resistance whenever a discussion revolves around that issue. People see this as very threatening to their continued physical well-being or even existence. So it’s apparent that Jesus was thinking of forgiveness in some context that exceeds the human limitations that affect the quality of human forgiveness. Jesus is indeed describing holy forgiveness, as the ultimate teaching tool required for the completion of the salvation process in each of us.
All destructive acts in the human plane, no matter their nature or against whom they are perpetrated, occur because the perpetrator is lost and knows no other way to act in such a situation. Attacks on others actually represent a call for love from a person who feels others don’t love him. They feel love is being withheld from them and attack others because of the lonely unwanted feelings that arise and are so unbearable to a person who is invested in the human world as the only level of existence. Indeed this unbearable feeling is also behind suicide as well as attacking others.

When Jesus asks His Father to forgive us for we no not what we do, Jesus understands that people don’t know that fears are needless, that we are eternal beings, and the actions and feelings of this world do not touch our identity, our being, in the only world of reality, the spirit world. To help others to know of their own true spirit identity, to see its presence demonstrated as a reality, we must learn to give no value to the human life. This plants the seed for healing and salvation in the other as we serve to demonstrate to them our belief and its practice that we can not be annihilated because of that spirit identity. Unconditional forgiveness thus becomes the ultimate act of love.

2. Why is forgiveness important?
Since we were created by God as an oneness with each other and Him, the wish to return to the kingdom requires we abandon seeing each other as separate. As Jesus’ disciples or helpers we get to the awakening by bringing others along with us.

3. When is forgiveness necessary?
Always with everyone when we are activated by the Holy Spirit to so perform. And that activation in turn is in response to our prayer, “God let me only see others as You do and treat them as You would” when feeling conflict and fear.

4. How do I forgive?
The human mind does not offer unconditional understanding and its forgiveness for all who are lost. Jesus acknowledged that, when He pointed out that He himself knew nothing (in the human state) and had to ask the Father to show Him so that He could do what the Father does… that’s further proof that we therefore must go through the Divine just as Jesus did. A sample prayer would be, “God, I know nothing. Take me over that I may forgive (insert name(s)) as You would.” Expect your human mind to rebelliously kick up in reaction to it, requiring that you may have to pray any number of times to accomplish fulfilling forgiveness in any situation.

5. Some things are so painful, why forgive at all?
Sometimes we feel as if the other person may not deserve forgiveness for what they have done. Walk me through how I approach forgiveness, how to pray and what I must do to maintain it.

You are absolutely right. Indeed we feel in the human state that some acts are unforgivable. Only the process of finding the human life as beyond management and its attendant loss of peace of mind prepares the person to choose to receive Jesus as themselves and begin to see and act as He would. After all, you are permitting Him to do that, and through such prayer life does one receive with gratitude His being you and you Him. You now know your indestructibility in the true spirit-you, recognize the lostness of everyone, and thereby can feel to react with spiritual forgiveness.

As your healings progress person by person (and of yourself), they need no maintenance. We never lose a healing once it is recovered. Only unhealed areas cause further problems, but they will be covered in due time by our Healer.