The first road is the
acknowledgment of sins. If you acknowledge your sins to God, He will
forgive you; and this act of acknowledgment will help you stop sinning. Let
your conscience be your accuser, so that you will not have to face a far
different accuser at the Lord's tribunal.
The second road of
repentance is the forgetting of the wrongs of others. This requires you
to control your temper and to forgive the sins that others have committed against
you. If you forgive others, the Lord will forgive you.
The third road is
prayer: not perfunctory routine prayer, but fervent, passionate prayer in which
you lay yourself wholly before God.
The fourth road is generosity,
in which by acts of thoughtful love you make amends for the sins you have
committed.
And the fifth road is
humility, whereby you regard yourself as having no virtue, but only sins to
offer to God; He will then take the burden of sin from your back.
At times it will be
right to travel on one of these roads, at other times to travel on
another. But ensure that every day
you walk along at least one of them.
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