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Find the Positive in the Negative

7. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, your Father in heaven will not forgive you your trespasses

8. And when you fast, do not look downcast like the hypocrites. For they disguise their faces, in order to appear as men who fast. Verily, I say to you, they already have their reward.

9. And I say to you, you will never find the Kingdom of Heaven unless you protect yourself from the world and its evil ways. And you will never see the Father in heaven, unless you keep the Sabbath and cease your haste to gather riches. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not display yourself before the people with your fasting. And the holy One, who sees into that which is hidden, will publicly acknowledge it. (Chap. 26:7-9)

Christ explains, corrects
and deepens the word:

The commandment to forgive and ask for forgiveness holds true until all that is not in accordance with the eternal laws is atoned for and cleared up. The commandment to forgive and ask for forgiveness is a part of the law of sowing and reaping. It will be revoked when all humanness has been cleared and every soul has become a pure, immaculate spirit being.

 So until then, the following commandment holds true: Forgive and you will attain forgiveness. If you ask for forgiveness and your neighbor forgives you, then your Father in heaven has also forgiven you. But if you ask for forgiveness and your neighbor does not forgive you because he is not yet ready to do so, then your eternal Father will not forgive you either. The one who has sinned against his neighbor must also receive forgiveness from his neighbor. Only then will God take away the sin.

The eternally just One loves all His children – including those who do not yet have the strength to forgive. If He were to forgive only the one who caused a sin to be committed without forgiving the one who was led to commit this sin and cannot yet forgive – then where would the justice of God be? Both can enter heaven only when their sins have been cleared up.

For this reason, be careful of what goes out of your mouth and pay attention to your deeds, whether they are in accordance with the eternal law, that is, whether they are selfless! That which is against the law is said or done very quickly – but it can take a long time before it is forgiven.

If you have asked for forgiveness and your neighbor is not yet ready to forgive you, then the grace of God will grow stronger in you; it will envelop you and carry you – however, He will not take away from you what has not yet been cleared up. God’s mercy will then also grow stronger in your neighbor and, respecting his free will, will lead him while in such a way that he more promptly recognizes his faults, repents and forgives you. Only when you have been forgiven all those against whom you have sinned – that is, when everything has been cleared up – can you enter heaven, because God will have then transformed all humanness into divine power.

God is omnipresent. Thus, He is also effective in the law of sowing and reaping. And in everything negative is the positive, God, the eternal law. If a person recognizes and repents of his sins and faults, then the positive powers will become active in them and will strengthen the person, who has come to know his guilt, to clear up his sins with Christ’s strength.

Recognize the law of God; it is eternal life from eternity to eternity – everything in all things: Everything is contained in everything: the smallest in the large and the large in the smallest, the strength to forgive in the sin, and the ascent to the Inner Life, to the eternal Being, in the power that is set free through forgiveness.

Therefore, the divine can also be effective in the negative when the person asks for forgiveness from his heart, forgives and sins no more. However, the person must take the first step toward the Inner Life.

Recognize that everything you do – be it praying, fasting or giving alms – if you do not do it selflessly, but to be seen by your fellow man, then you have already received your reward from the people. God will not reward you then. And if you fast only because of your corpulence, you will not increase the Spirit of your  Father in you. However, the person who takes in nourishment in the name of the Most High and exercises moderation, fasting from time to time, in order to relax and purify his body so that the power of God can maintain all cells and organs in the right way, is the one who sincerely practices accepting and receiving in himself the life from God, in order to live in this life. And at the same time, he will dedicate his life to God, the Eternal, in prayer, in order to gradually become the prayer that is lived.

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