[Songs in the Night - April 21]
Even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Colossians 3:13
THE disposition to forgive should be with us always,
and should be manifested by us at all times.
Our
loving generosity and kindness and desire to think no
evil—or as little as possible—should be shown in all
the words and acts of life.
This course is Godlike.
God had a kind, benevolent, generous sentiment toward
us, even while we were yet sinners; nor did he
wait for the sinners to ask forgiveness, but promptly
manifested his desire for harmony and his readiness
to forgive.
The whole Gospel message is to this effect:
"Be ye reconciled to God."
Our hearts should be so
full of this disposition toward forgiveness that our faces
would not have a hard look, nor our words of reproof
a bitter sting.
On the contrary, they should manifest
the loving forgiveness that we should have in our
hearts at all times. Z'12-67 R4978:3 (Hymn 21)