Comments on: The Forgiveness of God http://surrender-all-jessie.com/2009/11/20/the-forgiveness-of-god/ "After surrender - what? The whole of the life after surrender is an aspiration for unbroken communion with God." Oswald Chambers Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:08:39 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Steph http://surrender-all-jessie.com/2009/11/20/the-forgiveness-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-433 Steph Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:46:43 +0000 http://surrender-all-jessie.com/?p=743#comment-433 Diane, Rejoicing with you! Diane, Rejoicing with you!

]]> By: Diane http://surrender-all-jessie.com/2009/11/20/the-forgiveness-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-432 Diane Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:50:13 +0000 http://surrender-all-jessie.com/?p=743#comment-432 What a great comfort it is to know that He takes note of every tear we shed that falls from eyes in awe of Him. How Christ must rejoice in you and take pleasure in your tears of thankfulnness towards Him. This great love He has for us, which has nothing to do with our actions, was decreed by God at the beginning without any input from us on how this great love would be shown!! Amazing. He loves me and you because He decreed He would. Knowing this... that this great plan of salvation had nothing whatsoever to do with me, but was in totality God's doing, keeps His love for me and my "deserving" of it very separate, if you know what I mean. Studying God's love for me had very little to do with finding scriptures on how He was planning to bless me, etc., but everything to do with studying what He did for me on the cross. That is where we stay every moment. God bless you. Knowing He is smiling on us today-is that not enough to sustain us? What a great comfort it is to know that He takes note of every tear we shed that falls from eyes in awe of Him. How Christ must rejoice in you and take pleasure in your tears of thankfulnness towards Him.
This great love He has for us, which has nothing to do with our actions, was decreed by God at the beginning without any input from us on how this great love would be shown!! Amazing. He loves me and you because He decreed He would.
Knowing this… that this great plan of salvation had nothing whatsoever to do with me, but was in totality God’s doing, keeps His love for me and my “deserving” of it very separate, if you know what I mean. Studying God’s love for me had very little to do with finding scriptures on how He was planning to bless me, etc., but everything to do with studying what He did for me on the cross. That is where we stay every moment.
God bless you. Knowing He is smiling on us today-is that not enough to sustain us?

]]> By: Steph http://surrender-all-jessie.com/2009/11/20/the-forgiveness-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Steph Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:05:14 +0000 http://surrender-all-jessie.com/?p=743#comment-431 Hi Diane - thank you for your reference - I will definitely look it up. Her story of her weeping at Jesus' feet and drying them with her hair, is one of the most beautiful, passages. I too have felt like that before Him, and wept many tears in thankfulness, gratitude and awe that He was able to forgive me and bring me to Him. There are times, as I am sure you yourself know, when no words can be spoken out loud to describe your heart towards the Lord - no words to do any justice, and so tears come and with tears comes our giving of yet another area of ourselves, wholly over to Him. In the death of that part of yourself, His life is raised in it's place. Bless you :-D Hi Diane – thank you for your reference – I will definitely look it up.

Her story of her weeping at Jesus’ feet and drying them with her hair, is one of the most beautiful, passages. I too have felt like that before Him, and wept many tears in thankfulness, gratitude and awe that He was able to forgive me and bring me to Him. There are times, as I am sure you yourself know, when no words can be spoken out loud to describe your heart towards the Lord – no words to do any justice, and so tears come and with tears comes our giving of yet another area of ourselves, wholly over to Him. In the death of that part of yourself, His life is raised in it’s place.
Bless you :-D

]]> By: Steph http://surrender-all-jessie.com/2009/11/20/the-forgiveness-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-430 Steph Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:56:33 +0000 http://surrender-all-jessie.com/?p=743#comment-430 Hi Barbara :-) I fully understand what you are saying, but I think it is until a person is taken to that <em>place of depth</em> you are speaking of, it slips off a tongue too easily, "I am forgiven" and not give much more thought to it. Until the Lord takes that person in hand, as He obviously is taking you, and shows them the <em>depth</em> of the cost of being able to say it, the reality of it will not be truly comprehended. We will never get to this place by ourself. God has to reveal this to us as He has to reveal <em>every single thing</em> we understand in our hearts about Him.. It is a great joy to hear from you, dear sister. Bless you Hi Barbara :-)
I fully understand what you are saying, but I think it is until a person is taken to that place of depth you are speaking of, it slips off a tongue too easily, “I am forgiven” and not give much more thought to it. Until the Lord takes that person in hand, as He obviously is taking you, and shows them the depth of the cost of being able to say it, the reality of it will not be truly comprehended. We will never get to this place by ourself. God has to reveal this to us as He has to reveal every single thing we understand in our hearts about Him..
It is a great joy to hear from you, dear sister.
Bless you

]]> By: Diane http://surrender-all-jessie.com/2009/11/20/the-forgiveness-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-429 Diane Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:16:12 +0000 http://surrender-all-jessie.com/?p=743#comment-429 Hi Steph, This reminded me of a Spurgeon sermon I read recently,(#792) entitled: Mary Magdalene. It very much blessed me and I am sure it will bless anyone who takes time to look it up and read it. It was wonderful to read how she lived in the gratitude of her being forgiven. Bless you and have a good weekend. Hi Steph,

This reminded me of a Spurgeon sermon I read recently,(#792) entitled: Mary Magdalene.
It very much blessed me and I am sure it will bless anyone who takes time to look it up and read it. It was wonderful to read how she lived in the gratitude of her being forgiven.
Bless you and have a good weekend.

]]> By: Barbara http://surrender-all-jessie.com/2009/11/20/the-forgiveness-of-god/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Barbara Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:15:12 +0000 http://surrender-all-jessie.com/?p=743#comment-428 Since coming to understand something of the depth of that cost, I don't know if "easy to accept" would be the phrase I'd choose. I see more and more of the truth in the words of Paul Washer when he said that it takes a lot of faith to see ourselves the way the Scripture portrays us, and then actually believe that God loves us as much as He says He does. There's a reason that Christian was swayed from the Narrow Path up to Mt. Sinai after being helped out of the Swamp of Despond and before coming to the Narrow Gate, with all the arrows being shot at him on approach. Once we see the depth of Grace, it seems that in many instances it is very hard for the flesh to accept it at all, or to actually believe that we have been forgiven. This is not a virtue, however. Since coming to understand something of the depth of that cost, I don’t know if “easy to accept” would be the phrase I’d choose. I see more and more of the truth in the words of Paul Washer when he said that it takes a lot of faith to see ourselves the way the Scripture portrays us, and then actually believe that God loves us as much as He says He does. There’s a reason that Christian was swayed from the Narrow Path up to Mt. Sinai after being helped out of the Swamp of Despond and before coming to the Narrow Gate, with all the arrows being shot at him on approach. Once we see the depth of Grace, it seems that in many instances it is very hard for the flesh to accept it at all, or to actually believe that we have been forgiven. This is not a virtue, however.

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