{"id":15647,"date":"2017-06-12T09:36:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15647"},"modified":"2017-06-12T10:02:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T14:02:42","slug":"getting-there-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15647","title":{"rendered":"Getting There (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>They said to Him, &#8220;Rabbi\u2026where are You staying?&#8221; He said to them, &#8220;Come and see.&#8221; \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=John+1%3A38-39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John 1:38-39<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --><\/p>\n<div class=\"top-rule\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q117T7-XD_k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Where our self-interest sleeps and the real interest is awakened.<\/strong> \u201cThey\u2026remained with Him that day\u2026.\u201d That is about all some of us ever do. We stay with Him a short time, only to wake up to our own realities of life. Our self-interest rises up and our abiding with Him is past. Yet there is no circumstance of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus.\u201cYou are Simon\u2026.You shall be called Cephas\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+1:42\">John 1:42<\/a>). God writes our new name only on those places in our lives where He has erased our pride, self-sufficiency, and self-interest. Some of us have our new name written only in certain spots, like spiritual measles.<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">And in those areas of our lives we look all right. When we are in our best spiritual mood, you would think we were the highest quality saints. But don\u2019t dare look at us when we are not in that mood. A true disciple is one who has his new name written all over him\u2014 self-interest, pride, and self-sufficiency have been completely erased.Pride is the sin of making \u201cself\u201d our god. And some of us today do this, not like the Pharisee, but like the tax collector (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+18:9-14\">Luke 18:9-14<\/a>). For you to say, \u201cOh, I\u2019m no saint,\u201d is acceptable by human standards of pride, but it is unconscious blasphemy against God. You defy God to make you a saint, as if to say, \u201cI am too weak and hopeless and outside the reach of the atonement by the Cross of Christ.\u201d Why aren\u2019t you a saint? It is either that you do not want to be a saint, or that you do not believe that God can make you into one.<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>You say it would be all right if God saved you and took you straight to heaven. That is exactly what He will do! And not only do we make our home with Him, but Jesus said of His Father and Himself, \u201c\u2026We will come to him and make Our home with him\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+14:23\">John 14:23<\/a>). Put no conditions on your life\u2014 let Jesus be everything to you, and He will take you home with Him not only for a day, but for eternity.____________<\/p>\n<p>Richard Rohr&#8217;s Daily Devotional<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/nothing-regret-god-uses-everything-favor-2017-06-12\/\"><strong>There Is Nothing to Regret (God Uses Everything in Our Favor)<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Monday, June 12, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of his life, Saint Francis told the friars, \u201cLet us begin, brothers, to serve the Lord God, for up until now we have done little or nothing.\u201d [1] That enigmatic sense of beginning again at the end of life, at the end of an era, in the middle of so much failure, when we just want to rest and put the past behind us, that is the gift for reconstruction that we want to discover in these meditations. It makes Francis a man for all seasons, particularly for seasons of winter and death, when we do not know how, much less want, to begin again.<\/p>\n<p>Francis also said as he lay dying, \u201cI have done what is mine; may Christ teach you what is yours!\u201d [2] We cannot change the world except insofar as we have changed ourselves.\u00a0 (see more) <a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/nothing-regret-god-uses-everything-favor-2017-06-12\/\">https:\/\/cac.org\/category\/daily-meditations\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They said to Him, &#8220;Rabbi\u2026where are You staying?&#8221; He said to them, &#8220;Come and see.&#8221; \u2014John 1:38-39 Where our self-interest sleeps and the real interest is awakened. \u201cThey\u2026remained with Him that day\u2026.\u201d That is about all some of us ever do. 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