Show Abundant Living Prayer Will Dissolve Resentments By E. E Stanley Jones Rom 1217 21 1217 21 Matt fatt 48 4 48 We continue our steps to get rid of re resentments resentments resentments re- re and hates 3 Every time the name of the person against whom you are tempted to hold a resentment is presented to your mind breathe a prayer for him Meet every invading resentment with a barrage arrage of prayer It was said of John Forman Forman Forman For- For man a saintly missionary that all his thoughts of his friends turned to prayer Make Malte the rule in your mind that invariably all your thoughts of your enemies real or imaginary are arc to become prayers for them Make the mind understand that and admit no exceptions Soon you will have no enemies enemies enemies en en- for you will have no enmity Prayer dissolves enmity as certain bacteria dissolve dissolve dissolve dis dis- dis- dis solve filth and turn it into clear water 4 Say everything good you can about the person or persons with whom you are unfriendly The probabilities are there are many fine things in them Fasten your mind mindon on those fine points instead of on the re resentment resentment re- re points The outcome will be in all probability that the good will so overbalance ance ame the bad that you will find yourself thinking more and more of the overwhelming overwhelm overwhelm- ing good and less and less of the insignificant cant bad 5 When you do have to speak of the faults of a person dont don't say I dont don't like that person Rather say I dont don't like certain tain tarn things in that person and they are these After stating those faults proceed to say But I do like these things in him and name them End on the positive note Negative thinking makes a negative person person person per per- son positive thinking makes a positive per per- If I have mentioned son mothers-in-law mothers in ina a derogatory way in many of my instances let me end my thought of them as mothers- mothers love in-love as one couple does docs 6 Remember that fastening upon other peoples people's faults is usually a defense ism By doing so you are arc probably attempting attempt attempt- ing to lift yourself up by pushing them down It wont won't succeed In mentally picking flaws in others you create a worse flaw in yourself yourself you you become a sensitive critical person like the thing you habitually center upon God my Father 1 would be rid of all that corrodes my soul I know that my attitudes attitudes attitudes atti atti- tudes of resentment and criticism cat eat like acid into my moral nature I would ask Thee to deliver me completely from the last tiny root of resentment Root it out out out Amen From the book Abundant Living published shed by Abingdon Cokesbury Press Copyright There is a confusion in mens men's souls which makes our nation vulnerable to such hostile penetration as we see occurring John Foster Dulles on our danger from communism t. t |