Luke 6:37 says, “Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.” Forgiveness sounds easy enough, but the tough part is keeping out of thought the cause of that need for forgiveness. I seem to be able to forgive, but that is not enough to heal the memories.
For years, I felt I was a target of hatred. I thought I had forgiven, but memories of what happened continued to come to me. I asked myself, “How many times is this going to come to thought?” I thought I was healed of this. In Matthew 18:22 we read to forgive “until seventy times seven.”
Human effort was not adequate to remove the effects of error, in this case hatred. I had to see others as innocent, pure, upright children of God. In Genesis 1:27, we learn that “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.” I was being tempted to believe that there was another creation. All that had happened to me had been a dream, never a part of reality. I then realized that there was no evil reality for anyone to believe in. The belief in unreality continues until it is removed by divine Truth.
