To be near unto God - pagina 159

God such as no to an instinctive knowledge of not Catechism or Confession can impart. We do

is the say that this knowledge thus obtained sufficient, only knowledge of God, nor that it is all we nor that it offers satisfactory clearness; mean to say is: that doing God's will introduces of God, a trait of its own into the knowledge be which is indispensable if that knowledge is to can not be a living knowledge, and which understanding replaced by anything else, be it

or feeling.

i u case of forgiving those who have we God of children As trespassed against us. We know it well know that this is our duty. the even so well that we are well aware that kind matter is not ended when we are outwardly no evil for evil. Christian forgiveness .

,

Take the

and return

must be Our Those who

goes farther and deeper than this. It honest forgiveness without any reservation.

greatest enemy must be forgiven. must love those curse us we must bless. Consider it carefully: despitefully use us.

We

who we

him must love our enemy. We must not show Ihis, love that we might exhibit our generosity. No, we must in fact, can only humiliate him. It is almost incomprelove him as ourselves. As it is hensible, yet such is the command. prayed in the Our Father: Forgive us our tresagainst passes, as we forgive those who trespass To forgive from love is the measure of the us for ourforgiveness of sin which we ask of God Not as though God could be bound to selves.

forgive. our measure, or forgive us because we That would be turning the Gospel around. But ask more of God than it signifies that we dare not 155

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