By: LaMonte Bateman
One of the most important lessons Christ imparted to us, is to love and forgive regardless of our circumstance. He taught this both through His words and his deeds. He taught it through the Parable of the unforgiving debtor. He taught it through His story of the good Samaritan. And He taught it as He was being crucified when He prayed for His tormentors and He said, “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.”
The purest elixir for healing whether it be mental, physical, or spiritual healing is love. Nicolai Tesla once said, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Love is the highest vibration and frequency that we can tune our body to. If you are tuned to that, you cannot hate, feel sorry for yourself, plot revenge, or do or think anything negative at all. To that end I am immersing myself in studying the concepts from the scriptures and the following books, “Teachings of the Eastern Masters,” “Power VS Force,” and “Courage.”
Each day I strive to raise my frequency and vibration higher than it was the day before. I have found that the most powerful tool to remove the blockage and let in the light and love is by forgiving others and repenting for the things I held against them and against myself. We are in a constant battle with our egos. Our egos do their best to convince us that everything they tell us to do or say or feel, is in our best interest, even though those words, actions, or feelings are contrary to what our Heavenly Father wants for us. Imagine that you have been called on a journey by God to climb a high mountain so that when we get to the top, we can prepare to fly and soar to heights and travel to places we never even imagined. At the start of our trip our ego hands us a front carrier to keep track of people who offend you on your journey. As you pursue the difficult and rugged journey up the mountain, you take notice if someone didn’t help you when you needed help, or someone said a thoughtless or unkind word, or someone even tripped you so they could get ahead of you and beat you to the top of the mountain. Each time any offense occurs, you pick up a rock and write the name of the offender on it and what they did to offend you, and you place it in your front carrier. The bigger you believe the offense to be, the bigger the rock you choose so you won’t forget about what they said or did to offend you.
As you continue your journey and your pack gets heavier, each step up the mountain becomes more difficult. Every once in a while you see someone passing you and moving up the mountain swiftly because they have emptied their packs and are not carrying that extra weight. From time to time, one of these individuals encourages you to let go of all the offenses you carry in your pack, but you are afraid if you do that, you will forget how you were offended and that will leave you vulnerable to that person being able to hurt you again. So you continue to trudge slowly up the mountain. Sometimes you feel like your burden is too heavy and you just want to give up. Thank heavens you have friends that also refuse to empty their packs, otherwise you wouldn’t have anyone to keep you company on your journey.
Finally, you reach the pinnacle of the mountain and you wait in line to receive your glider which will allow you to soar high in the air and visit many wonderful places and have wonderful experiences. Long before you reach the front of the line, someone tells you that in order to obtain your glider, you first must put off your pack of offenses. You resist greatly and the individual explains that your craft is uniquely suited to carry you and you alone, and that attempting to carry your extra burden will put you over the weight limit for your craft and you will likely crash on the rocks below. You don’t believe them, so you glance over the side of the cliff, and sure enough, you see people still trying to carry their burdens, crashed in the rocks below. Eventually the individual manages to convince you of the wisdom of casting off your burden, and as soon as you remove it, you feel a weight lifted off your heart and mind. You feel free, so much so that you wonder why you ever allowed your ego to convince you that carrying your burden was what was best for you.
That is your starting point–casting off your hurts and offenses both real and imagined. Like a boat hull filled with barnacles, or an aircraft iced over, you can’t possibly achieve your desired destination without removing the thing(s) which hold you back. What is the best way to cast your burden aside? Think of every single offense you are holding on to and write it down on a piece of paper. Then write down the name of the person that offended you and what they did to offend you. After you have made a complete list (you may not think of everything the first time–that’s okay, just rinse and repeat). Then picture in your mind’s eye that person standing or sitting in front of you. Picture yourself telling them that you forgive them for whatever it was that you were holding against them, and imagine yourself asking for their forgiveness in return for holding a grudge against them. After you have gone through your entire list, bring it before God and express your sorrow for holding grudges and how that has held you back from progressing as you should, and ask for His forgiveness. As the scriptures say in Matthew 5:23-24; Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that they brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way–first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift.
“Why should your anxious load,
Weigh down your weary mind?
Come cast your burden at His feet,
And sweet refreshment find.”
Anxious load equals the worries, cares, and grudges you carry and they weigh down your mind until you cast those burdens at His (Heavenly Father’s) feet (“at His feet” represents that in order to cast your burden, you have to be humbled and on your knees before Him). The sweet refreshment is the removal of your burden and the intense feeling of love you feel when your burden is gone.
As you forgive each person on your list, you will feel your burden become lighter and lighter until finally the thing(s) that have dampened your frequency and vibration will be removed sufficient to feel and express love on a higher plane.
This is all information I am studying for my personal edification and growth, but I realize that some of you may appreciate the learnings that I am absorbing and you might benefit from as much as I am. I love you all. I would love to hear any experiences any of you may have in applying these principles.
