{"id":15976,"date":"2017-08-31T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15976"},"modified":"2017-08-31T09:55:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:55:26","slug":"foregiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15976","title":{"rendered":"Foregiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/including-everything-2017-08-31\/\">Including<strong> Everything<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, August 31, 2017<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dM0ZNoa6kU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Create in me a clean heart. \u2014Psalm 51:10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The True Self is always humble. It knows that we didn\u2019t do it right and that it isn\u2019t even about doing it right; it\u2019s just about doing it. Our True Self knows that everything belongs.\u00a0That means holding together the good and the bad, the dark and the light, the sinner and the saint\u2014which are two parts of me and two parts of everything.\u00a0It is our participation in divinity which allows us to be this large.<br \/>\nOnly God, it seems, is spacious enough to include everything.\u00a0Humans need to expel, exclude, deny, and avoid. We just can\u2019t hold very much by our private selves.\u00a0Only God in me, only me in God, can hold the contraries. Forgiveness could almost be God\u2019s very name and identity.<br \/>\nOur first forgiveness\u00a0is not toward a particular sin or offense.\u00a0Our first forgiveness, it seems to me, is toward reality itself: to forgive it for being so broken, a mixture of good and bad. First that paradox has to be overcome inside of us. Then, when we allow God to hold together the opposites within us, it becomes possible to do it over there in our neighbor and even our enemy. Finally, our worldview and politics change.\u00a0We can no longer project our evil onto another country, religion, minority group, race, or political party.<br \/>\nOnly the false self easily takes offense. The false self can\u2019t live a self-generated life of immediate contact with God. It defines itself by the past, which is to live in un-forgiveness.\u00a0Forgiveness is the only way to free ourselves from the entrapment of the past. We\u2019re in need not only of individual forgiveness; we need it on a national, global, and cosmic scale. Old hurts linger long in our memories and are hard to let go. We must each learn how to define ourselves by the present moment\u2014which is all we really have.\u00a0I will not define myself by what went wrong yesterday when I can draw upon Life and Love right now. Life and Love are what\u2019s real. This Infinite Love is both in us and yet it is more than us.<br \/>\nGateway to Silence:<br \/>\nCreate in me a clean heart. \u2014Psalm 51:10<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMy Joy\u2026Your Joy\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n<p><strong>These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=31&amp;search=John+15%3A11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John 15:11<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\">\n<p><!--\n\n\n<div class=\"mobile-sharing-button\"><\/div>\n\n\n--><\/p>\n<div class=\"top-sharing\">\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\">\n<div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\">\n<div class=\"sd-content\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"odb-share-facebook\">What was the joy that Jesus had? Joy should not be confused with happiness. In fact, it is an insult to Jesus Christ to use the word <em>happiness<\/em> in connection with Him. The joy of Jesus was His absolute self-surrender and self-sacrifice to His Father\u2014 the joy of doing that which the Father sent Him to do\u2014 \u201c\u2026who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross\u2026\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Hebrews+12:2\">Hebrews 12:2<\/a>). \u201cI delight to do Your will, O my God\u2026\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+40:8\">Psalm 40:8<\/a>). Jesus prayed that our joy might continue fulfilling itself until it becomes the same joy as His. Have I allowed Jesus Christ to introduce His joy to me?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Living a full and overflowing life does not rest in bodily health, in circumstances, nor even in seeing God\u2019s work succeed, but in the perfect understanding of God, and in the same fellowship and oneness with Him that Jesus Himself enjoyed. But the first thing that will hinder this joy is the subtle irritability caused by giving too much thought to our circumstances. Jesus said, \u201c\u2026the cares of this world,\u2026choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Mark+4:19\">Mark 4:19<\/a>). And before we even realize what has happened, we are caught up in our cares. All that God has done for us is merely the threshold\u2014 He wants us to come to the place where we will be His witnesses and proclaim who Jesus is.<\/p>\n<p>Have the right relationship with God, finding your joy there, and out of you \u201cwill flow rivers of living water\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+7:38\">John 7:38<\/a>). Be a fountain through which Jesus can pour His \u201cliving water.\u201d Stop being hypocritical and proud, aware only of yourself, and live \u201cyour life\u2026hidden with Christ in God\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Colossians+3:3\">Colossians 3:3<\/a>). A person who has the right relationship with God lives a life as natural as breathing wherever he goes. The lives that have been the greatest blessing to you are the lives of those people who themselves were unaware of having been a blessing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Including Everything Thursday, August 31, 2017 Create in me a clean heart. \u2014Psalm 51:10 The True Self is always humble. It knows that we didn\u2019t do it right and that it isn\u2019t even about doing it right; it\u2019s just about doing it. Our True Self knows that everything belongs.\u00a0That means holding together the good and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15983,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions\/15983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}