The Importance of Gratitude and Forgiveness
As discussed in the previous posting, affirmation and prayer will enable you to synchronize your mortal mind and thoughts with the divine mind. When this happens, you get ready to receive the blessings, either the ones you desire in your prayer or other benefits. Because this will be an appropriate time, you can express your thanks to God for the benefits. This expression of thanks is called gratitude, a word derived from two words grateful and attitude. When you develop a habit of feeling gratitude, no matter how small a gift you have received, you also get ready to receive more. The opposite of gratitude is dismay, unsatisfaction, and anger, and these immediately cut off the connection your mortal mind had established with the divine mind. All the hard work you had put in earlier will go to waste. For example, if you get a smaller raise than another at work and are dissatisfied, express frustration, and this shows in your career, you might even get fired. That is why your gratitude for every small or large blessing is essential. You can even express gratitude even before receiving a blessing, which will show your trust in the Divine Mind and will speed things up faster. When you have gratitude, this shows in your face, attracts people, and better relationships. These qualities will positively have great benefits. Gratitude is essential to climb up the spiritual ladder,
When God created man, he also laid out all the rules to live by and the pathway to salvation. He, however, knew that not everyone would follow these paths, would develop other qualities like anger, envy, and hate, and would adopt any means to grab the blessings some are bestowed for following the right ways. This is because, for some who are led by their human mind and ego, it is easier to grab all the goodies by committing crimes like cheating, stealing, killing, etc., than follow the right path. In this process, they betray and hurt good people to enrich themselves and win favor with the leaders who are also like them. This is what happened with Jesus. One of his disciples by the name of Judas Iscariot, betrayed Jesus and conspired with the crowd who wanted to arrest Jesus and hand him over to the chief priest of the Jews, who called Jesus a false prophet. Judas received thirty silvers in exchange for the information he gave about the whereabouts of Jesus and his other disciples. Jesus was crucified, and before he died, he said,” Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). This forgiveness of people who were about to crucify him was so powerful that he was able to rise from the tomb his body was interred in and show himself with his disciples three times before he ascended to heaven. The point is forgiveness is a quality that gets you a pass into the high-speed elevator to climb on the spiritual path. Let us make it a habit of forgiving everyone who may have hurt us knowingly or unknowingly. If you cannot ignore them, ask the Father, God, to ignore them. God will be more than happy to do that for you and give the credit to you.
We will discuss several other topics as we explore the spiritual paths together.
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