Eastern religion refers to a certain universal cosmic law as “Karma”. According to this universal law, we can choose within each situation (negative or positive) to build up good karma or bad karma for ourselves. Whatever we choose, it will come back to us in a form of rewards or blessings, or as lessons, sometimes painful, but detrimental to our spiritual growth. In other words; many of the good things and bad things we experience in life, comes to us by our own doing and choices we’ve made in the past (and not always from the devil, although we all like to put the blame on someone else sometimes).

Our thoughts, words and deeds (all choices), determine to a certain extend our destiny in life and our future experiences. So, for lack of another word, I will also refer to this principle by this word – “karma”, it is after all only a word defined by people to refer to a principle we can all relate to, even from Bible scripture as I will indicate below.

As you will see in the slide presentation, bad things can happen to good people. Why? Is it due to “bad karma” they have created in their lives in the past? It is possible, but of course, we can never apply this law by judging others, we can never condemn another under the law. (Matthew 7:1). This would be sowing “bad karma” for ourselves again. Rather extend love and compassion to those in desperate situations (creating positive karma). Sometimes, bad people just do bad things to good people unfairly, but even then, it can have very positive consequences for us by the way we respond to the situation, and we can be stacking up “good karma” and blessings for our future in this way.

This means that we will be reducing potential situations where we might experience bad karma and increase the good things happening to us. It explains why the same bad things always seem to be happening to the same people all the time, while others just seems to be blessed. We have a role to play in our destiny and future, nothing happens by accident, chance or due to uncontrollable fate according to this principle. I like this principle as it really underlines our reponsibility to take charge of our own lives and it also gives us the opportunities to create a better future for ouselves through spiritual growth and understanding, this is the very purpose of our lives on earth.

We are spiritual beings, temporary facing the challenges in this earthly environmentand in physical bodies, in order to develop our souls to a higher level.

Influencing our own destiny and even influencing future events to a certain extend, is something I have experienced in my own life, you can read my testimony in my book “Entrance to Power“. We have the creative power from a spiritual dimension to take control over negative circumstances, and even change our destiny and future for the better. We can prevent many of the potential calamities we are originally “destined” to face. By building up “positive karma” and developing our spiritual intuition (God speaking to us through His Spirit), we can be forwarned of approaching, life-threatening dangers and situations, and we can change it! We should learn how to do this!

The principle of Karma is comparable to a bank account in heaven, we can save up riches there, and we can withdraw good things from the account later when needed. But there is also interest to be paid if we go into a negative balance, and we will pay off the debt until every penny is fully paid! That is of course if we exclude the principle of grace.

Sometimes, I believe that God may allow certain negative things for us to go through, and it is normally due to our doing in our past, not learning, not having mercy on someone else for instance. It can also be for the sake of others to learn through our temporary suffering, either way, if you pass the test you will be rewared hundredfold says the Bible. We can read about Jesus teaching this very principle in Mathew 6:15. If we do not forgive others, Jesus said, our Father will not forgive us and we actually cancel out the benefits of mercy and grace in our lives. Then, we will have to learn the spiritual lesson by experience, which in the long run is also for our own good.

Negative situations are excellent opportunities for us to stack up riches in a spiritual realm (Heaven) for ourselves to be drawn upon later. As an example, if someone else is constantly giving you a hard time, start acting in the opposite way, investigate yourself and learn from it, if unfairly accused or treated, do not react in negative defence and backbiting criticism, or this cycle will surely repeat itself in your life. Therefore, the Bible instructs us to bless those that are against use or have wronged us.

Yes, negative karma works both ways, to the one who initiates and exercises it, and the one who is the subject, this principle will draw to them both the lessons that they WILL have to face in future, or the potential blessings it WILL release. It is called the path of spiritual growth.

The fact is, if you cycle through the same negative situations in your life, time after time, again and again, it is because you are not passing the tests. It means that you have not yet learned how to overcome”bad karma”with”positive karma”. So, there you sow”negative karma” again that will come back to you somewhere in the future! Michael Pitts refers to this”seeing of the bigger picture” as “connecting the dots”. We must learn to connect the dots, recognize the cycle and learn how to break the cycle with positive karma. Learn how to connect with other people in a positive way, even if they are responding negatively to you.

It is for your own good to forgive and forget, the rewards are out of this world and your enemies actually becomes a blessing in disguise when you pass the test!

Are you tired of the old job that is frustrating you to your core? One way to make sure you will always have a job (or a boss) like that, no matter where you go, is to keep on murmuring and spreading bad karma everywhere. Excel, break the cycle, once you have passed the test, there is no need for that lesson anymore and your circumstances will change for the better!

The Bible refers to this universal law as follows:

Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].

Mat 7:12 So then, whatever you desire that others would do to and for you, even so do also to and for them, …

Mat 6:14 For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your
heavenly Father will also forgive you.

1Pe 4:8 Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others].

But is there a way to break out of the”bad karma” we might have created for ourselves in ignorance during our past history? Of course, Christian believers know the Gift of Grace (which is a gift from God, obtained by faith in Jesus Christ, who came to fulfil the law in our stead, taking the punishment on our behalf).

When grace is released through faith into our lives, it breaks the cycle of the execution of the law (or the result of “negative Karma” that must be balanced), you become a new creation (2Cor5:17). And when we also practise this kind of love towards others, it cancels out the sins (or”bad Karma”) of others. But remember that after the cancellation of the “bad karma”, you are free, but to stay free requires a change of mind and attitude, some measure of continuous spiritual growth will be expected from you. Those who don’t grow up, might start to see the same law starting to work all over again in their lives. Once you have found the way of grace, grace is the stronger force, always available when called upon, but get out of the cycle!

Isn’t this principle exactly what Jesus taught when one of His disciples has cut off the ear of one of those that came to arrest Jesus? Jesus immediately healed the servant’s ear, and by doing so, prevented his disciple from dying by the sword himself later (balancing his negative karma by a good dead). Jesus then said:

Put your sword back into its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword (Mat 26:52)

Do you see the principle of karma, even in the Bible?

Thank God for the Gift of Grace!

Watch the slide show here.

God bless!

Philip