The 40 Days of Elul (Day 20): How To Begin To Heal Our Souls And Forgive. Love Is The Key.9/16/2022 Good Morning Friday...
Father God, thank you for this new day. Abba help us to have quiet, peaceful, and humble hearts. Teach us to be gentle, like You, with ourselves, so that we may be gentle with others. Teach us to be patient, like You, with ourselves, so we may be patient with others. Teach us kindness and gratitude, joy and humor, strength and forgiveness, trust and faith, openness, willingness, and surrender. We ask this in YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST’S NAME. AMEN! Last night during ministry the issue of forgiveness, “being right with God,” and being mindful of what we have been forgiven for was approached. This devotion, during The 40 Days of Elul no less, seemed very fitting. Ahava V’Shalom (Love and Peace) Mishpocha (Family) and have a wonderful Yeshua-Filled Forgiving weekend! - The 40 Days of Elul (Day 20): How To Begin To Heal Our Souls and Forgive. Love Is The Key. It can be a very challenging experience when someone sins against us. It seems that we all are born with a natural tendency to want to talk about that person and solicit sympathy for ourselves. But what does God's Word say about this? Let's check in: “And above all things have fervent Love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” I Peter 4:8 NKJV “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.” I Corinthians 13:4-10 NKJV “Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.” Proverbs 10:12 NKJV Love covers sin. Love sees past sin. Love shows Grace and Mercy, and it does this in The Light of Yeshua, Jesus Christ Our Savior Who Sacrificed Himself Because Of Our Sin Against Him. If Our Father Loves Us enough to send His One And Only Son to take care of our many sins, shouldn't we be more willing to look past someone else's sin knowing all the things in which we are forgiven through Yeshua, Jesus Our Savior? When we apply such godliness to our own lives and relationships it guards our deceitful hearts against gossip, and against the ever so subtle bitterness that can creep into our lives. May we all search our minds and hearts to see if we find anyone in whom we have reoccurring negative thoughts due to a bad experience. This may be difficult to ponder on, but we need only look at the sins we have committed against Our God and Father and have been forgiven through Yeshua Our Savior to understand How To Begin To Heal Our Souls and Forgive...With Love. Prayer: Dear Father God, help us to never lose sight of what we have been forgiven in Yeshua, Christ Jesus Our Savior. Please help open our hearts and minds to understand all that You do for us. With this understanding help us to grant others forgiveness and allow You To Heal And Lead Our Lives. We Praise You, Bless You, Love You, and Thank You. In Your Mighty Son Yeshua, Jesus Christ's Name We Pray. Amen. Extra Thoughts For Elul: A man should be watchful of his conduct. He should scrutinize and pass in review all his actions and habits to determine whether they are right or not, so that he may save his soul from the peril of destruction, and not grope about like a blind man. -- Moses Luzzato, The Path of the Upright (18th c., Italy) [The watchfulness to which Luzzato refers above] is being mindful of oneself and one’s relation to others at every moment. This is a necessary prerequisite to the practice of ethical development, whose goal is to become aware of the feelings, actions, and thoughts that constitute a person’s psyche. A person begins by developing this awareness after an event, then learns to do so closer and closer to the event, and eventually during the event itself or even before. One who develops awareness during or before an event has conquered the skill of watchfulness that [Luzzato] describes here. – Ira Stone, Commentary on Luzzato’s The Path of the Upright Mindfulness is a mode of careful attentiveness to the whole of one’s experience. It emphasizes telling The Truth, respecting one’s experience, responding rather than reacting, and gently returning one’s attention again and again to the initial intention of the practice. It involves an awareness of impermanence, and the interconnection of all that is and a deep appreciation of the fact that every act has an intention and a consequence. – Sheila Peltz Weinberg Extra thoughts during Elul: Are you able to act mindfully? When? When do you tend to act without thinking, or without pausing to realize that you have a choice in how to respond? As you look over the past year, do you see any destructive patterns or habits in your behavior, of which you would like to be more mindful going forward? Do you pray to Our Father about this, or do you have another godly practice of discipline that helps you cultivate mindfulness? “For if you forgive people their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive people, neither will your Father forgive your sins.” Matthew 6:14-15 “Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, The LORD forgave you, so you must forgive others.” Colossians 3:13 “I am my Beloved’s, and my Beloved is mine. He feeds His Flock among the lilies.” Song of Solomon 6:3
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