Printed in The Gospel of God’s Love, on page 145. From Padgett’s grandmother.
“I come to write about the forgiveness of sin and pardon of the Father, and to enlighten you upon this subject, which is so little understood since humans first commenced to distort the teachings of the Master.
“Mercy is the operation of the divine law which relieves humans of the penalties from the sins they have committed. It permits them to turn from their evil thoughts and deeds and seek for the Love of the Father; and if they earnestly seek, will find the forgiveness which is waiting for them to obtain. It does not violate any law which God has established pertaining to mortal’s conduct, and the law of compensation – “that which man sows, that shall he reap” – is not set aside. But in this case where man becomes penitent, and in all earnestness prays to the Father to forgive him of his sins, the operation of another and greater law is called into activity, and the old law of compensation is nullified and, as it were, “swallowed up” in the power of this new law of forgiveness and Love.
“So you see there is no setting aside of any of God’s Laws. As in the physical world, where certain lesser laws are overcome by greater laws, so, in the operation of spiritual things, the greater law must prevail over the lesser. God’s laws never change; but they do seem to change, when two laws come into apparent conflict and the lesser law must give way to the greater.
“Spiritual laws are just as fixed as are the physical laws that operate in the material universe; and no law, having application to the same conditions, ever differs in its operation. But suppose that a more powerful and contrary law should come into operation; do you suppose the former, lesser law would still control the situation? The effect of this is not to set aside the lesser law, or even to change it, but to subordinate it to the operstion of the greater law.
The Creator of all law has provided a greater law which may be brought into operation, which causes the former law to cease to operate. And humans may experience the benefit of this higher law. When God forgives someone of their sins, the law of compensation is not annihilated, but removes that upon which this law can operate. Amen