FORGIVENESS
One of the most difficult things for us to do on earth is to forgive. Most of us do not really understand what forgiveness really is. We often hear people say that they have forgiven but not forgotten; that is not true forgiveness. If the offense is still on our minds, then we have not yet dealt with it, therefore we have not forgiven it.
Forgiveness is not denial, pretending that it did not happen, and it is not pushing it out of our minds without dealing with it. This will only devour us and eventually the event will return to our memory.
It is not only other people that we must forgive but we must also forgive ourselves. None of us have always accepted our own behavior; we all have regrets.
True forgiveness is sometimes a long process. If we are attempting to forgive another, we must examine that event and then we need to think of all the possible reasons why the other person has behaved the way that they did. Are they re-living some past experience, is it a learned behavior, did they not understand the situation etc? If we are working on forgiving ourselves, we should try to place ourselves back at that time and decide if our actions were because of our immaturity, our lack of knowledge or our fears. Everything is so much easier to criticize as an onlooker than as a participant.
Our best example of true forgiveness is Christ on the cross. Christ forgave his attackers and prayed to God to forgive them also. He knew they did not really understand who He was or that He had come to save them from Lucifer’s realm. He understood that they did not have His knowledge or His ability to love. He knew that life for them was all about learning through experience as it is for all of us on earth.
FEAR
The opposite of love is not hate, it is fear. We all suffer from fear of one kind or another and in differing degrees. We are in Lucifer’s realm, a realm that is controlled by fear. On the other hand, heaven is ruled by love; there is no fear in the heavenly realms.
Our most common fear on earth is fear for our livelihood. Some of us are so fearful that we do not even attempt to help ourselves for fear that we may fail. Others of us drive ourselves to excel also for fear of failure. It is the same type of fear; we just solve it in opposite methods.
Fear is the root of our many faults. Envy is the fear that we are not as great as the next person is. Selfishness if the fear that giving will result in our lack. Pride is the fear that we may be discovered as not being as great as we would like to be. Anger is the fear that we have been made to appear less than we should like to be and so on.
Fear then affects our whole earthly life and yes, it is the cause of most of our diseases. When we fear, we worry, we do not care for our bodies as we should, we impair our digestion, we give ourselves headaches as well as other aches and pains. Longstanding uncontrolled fear may cause other chronic and more serious diseases. Our methods of coping with fear also cause our addictions, such as alcoholism, drug abuse, overeating etc. that in turn create more diseases.
We likely will never totally be free of fear as long as we live in Lucifer’s realm, but perhaps we can alleviate some or most of it by remaining optimistic. The way to remain optimistic is to keep reminding ourselves that God is in control, yes, in spite of Lucifer’s reign of terror he has limited powers, even he is not allowed to completely control us if we do not allow it.
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
Our neighbor is everyone who was created by God as we ourselves were. Our neighbor is not only the people we like, but everyone.
Loving our neighbor does not mean that we must love everything everyone does. We may and should completely dislike the behavior that is unacceptable in others. If we can learn to separate the person from the behavior we can learn to love the person.
Loving our neighbor does not mean that we need to interact with everyone. Some people are best loved from a distance. Remaining in the company of those who would do us harm is not love but stupidity. Being involved with people who influence us in a negative manner is self-destructive.
Loving our neighbor only means that we respect all persons enough to do them no harm and to assist them if they need our well -deserved support.
Loving our neighbor is the realization that they were also from God at one time and all of God’s creations deserve our love and respect in honor of God.
Jesus did not always like the behavior of the people whom he encountered, but in the end He gave up His mortal life in order to save us all, regardless of whether or not we deserved to be rescued from Lucifer’s realm. None of us are being asked to die for our neighbor only to respect God given life on earth.
DEATH
So many report having had a near death experience, seeing a light, going toward it, sometimes speaking to someone. Usually they think they have seen God, or Jesus, whom they think is God. They may have seen Jesus but not likely that they have seen God. The realm that God inhabits is much too bright and grand than the realm we would enter upon reaching heaven. Also there are many other spirits in heaven besides Jesus. What is the difference between the near death experience and real death?
Our spirits are attached to our bodies by an odic cord, which can stretch and is not easily broken. Once the cord breaks, the spirit is detached from the body and can never be re-attached again. The only way to come back to earth is to re-incarnate and begin life anew.
Actually, we need not be in trauma in order for our spirit to leave our body. We leave our body for short periods of time constantly. When we daydream our spirit is wandering in the spirit world. When we sleep at night, our spirit wanders. When we meditate our spirit travels. Sometimes during any of these occasions we remember where we have been but often as soon as our spirit re-enters our body our memory of the experience is wiped out, just as our memory of past lives leaves us as soon as we are born.
At our death our odic cord is broken and our spirit is taken to the spirit realm accompanied by our family and friends who have come to welcome us just as we are welcomed on earth after a trip. Our bodies eventually return to the earth of which it is composed.
In the bible we attribute the raising of the dead to Jesus. But even Jesus could not do anything, which contradicts the laws of God. The people he supposedly raised from the dead were not really dead. Their odic cord was not severed, otherwise they would not have retuned. True, they appeared dead, and they would never have been able to make their spirit re-enter their bodies, so weak was their odic cord. So it took a great deal of power on the part of Jesus to strengthen the cord to the point that the spirit could return.
Death comes only once at the end of each lifetime. Most of the references of people being raised from the dead in the bible are regarding spiritual death not physical death.
RESTITUTION
We hear “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” and we also hear “turn the other cheek”. So, which is it? Are we allowed to pay back in kind or must we turn the other cheek? Let us imagine we are living in the days when Jesus walked the earth, which would he say is correct? You guessed it, he would say “turn the other cheek”. This is what he did and more.
So what about “An eye for an eye?” This is the direct opposite is it not? “An eye for an eye” does not mean that we are to take matters into our own hands and repay those who harm us, it means that we do the paying. For every bit of harm or damage that we cause another, we will repay. It does not matter that we caused harm through ignorance or that we planned to do harm. This is one of nature’s laws or God’s laws. What we sow we shall reap, what goes around comes around.; no matter how we phrase it, it all means the same thing.
But you may ask, many do harm to others and never seem to repay? Just because we do not see the manner of repayment does not mean it was not repaid. Also, there is nothing that says we will repay in this life. We may repay after we enter the spirit-world after our physical death, and then again, we may repay in one or more of our lives on earth when we re-incarnate. So it is not for us to judge as to whether or not others have made restitution. God has it all in hand; He needs no assistance from us. The law still stands, there are no special circumstances, the law is non-emotional and impartial. Whether we like it or not, the law just is.