T. 26. V. 6 – 9. Jesus: “Forgiveness is the great release from time. It is the key to learning that the past is over and madness speaks no more. There is no other teacher but the Holy Spirit, and no other way. For what has been undone for you no longer is!
Standing on the shore, one can dream himself across an ocean, to a distant place and time long since gone by. Yet how real a hindrance can this dream be to realizing where he is? For where he is, is but a fact, and does not change, no matter what his dreams may be. Yet he can still imagine he is elsewhere, and even in another time!
In the extreme, this one can delude himself that his imagining is true, going from mere imagining to belief, and on to madness, quite convinced that where he would prefer to be, he is! Yet is this really a hindrance to acknowledging the place whereon he stands? Does any echo from the past take away what can be heard where he is now? And how much can his own illusions about time and place cause a change in where he really is?
The ‘unforgiven self’ is but a voice that calls out to him from a past forevermore gone by! And everything that points to it as real is but a wish that what is gone could be ‘made real again’ and seen as here and now, in place of what is really now and here. Is this a hindrance to the fact that the past is gone, and cannot be returned to you? And do you want that fearful instant kept, when Heaven seemed to disappear and God was feared and made a symbol of your hate?
Forget the time of terror that has been so long ago corrected and undone! Can the thought of sin withstand the Will of God? Can it be up to you to look upon the past and make it your present reality? You can not go back! And everything that points the way in the direction of the past but sets you on a mission whose accomplishment cannot be real.
Such is the justice your All-Loving Father has ensured must come to you. And from your own unfairness to yourself has He protected you. You cannot lose your way because there really is no way but His, and nowhere can you go except to Him.”