Last night, during weekly prayer, a word emerged to our little community:
clean out all our unforgiveness and join into Jesus' forgiveness for each other and everyone in our lives...
it was a call of good news to live in the lightness and joy of forgiveness.
We saw that the standard of the Word, who is Jesus, is to forgive and love as Christ has loved and forgiven us. Not just to love as we love ourselves. So we're forgetting about ourselves, and looking intently at Jesus, to learn anew how to live this...
action points emerged:
1. Confession of bitterness/unforgiveness\
2. Willingness to forgive applied
3. perseverance in prayer, intently, for offending persons
4. Doing good, led by the Spirit, to those who have done us wrong.
5. BLESSING those who have cursed us...
When Jesus talked about us being Perfect, He was talking about us loving our enemies! This is the culmination of likeness to Him. Think on these things...
Thursday, September 27, 2007
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so when it comes to the irritations and little offenses, constant grinding of personalities, and belittlements that are part of daily life among ignorant and brutish brothers and sisters, there is only one standard:
ReplyDeletetotally love one another in the grace of abject forgiveness.
consider one another better than yourself.
remember the depth of offense we have committed against our Lord.
consider the profound forgiveness he has lavished on us over our past sins...
consider that any righteousness we have is all gift of His grace, and that we couldn't have any good outside him...
develop sympathy and compassion in this meditation...
Yes, this is the narrow way that leads to life.
ReplyDeleteThe Way of the kingdom...
This is the kingdom the drunks and whores are piling into ahead of all those trying to hold on to their own righteousness.
The 1st will be last and the last 1st.
How great the Father's love for us.
The grace of Abba is the divine mystery long awaited. The scandal of the cross. That which made heaven pause and go..."wow, didn't see that comin"