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One Love
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| Posted 5/25/2007 6:50 AM (GMT -6) |   | | I'm finding the following sentence so hard for my mind to assimilate fully...
God genuinely continues to LIKE me after I fail miserably in any area of my life.
I'm confronting my crazy perfectionism.
I've always had this ever-present, dark fear of failure...and it's harming my relationship with God.
This one's gonna be a doozy.
Brothers and Sisters, pray for me.
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be One, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be One as we are One— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete UNIty. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to SONship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. | | Back to Top | | |
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 5/25/2007 4:06 PM (GMT -6) | | I think a key to this is the utter victory of the cross, grave, resurrection, ascension, and judgement.
No matter what damage God is victorious IN US--the hope of glory. The only lasting damage is any reticensce on our part (Lewis' "Great Divorce." ) to the light of God. But to all those willing--imho--that might improve too. But as for the damage of sin, the incarnation (all that I mentioned above) is the cure-all.
"It is these fundamental images - Virgin Birth, Crucifixion, Death, Descent into Hades, Resurrection, Ascension into Heaven, Coming of the Holy Spirit - that make up the Christian faith. Interestingly, all of these images can be rendered in picture - form. Indeed, in the Orthodox Church we do render them in picture form and place the icons of these events in the middle of the Church on their feast days."
(I hope this was OK to write.)
(o)Post Edited (PotOnWheel) : 5/25/2007 4:27:13 PM (GMT-5) | | Back to Top | | |
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