Forgiving Yourself
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 21 August 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we reach the end of our weeklong focus on forgiveness, today we’re going to look at what it takes to forgive ourselves. For some of us, forgiving ourselves can be the hardest part of forgiveness.
May God give us the grace to see ourselves as he does, and offer ourselves love, compassion, and forgiveness regardless of what we’ve done.
Our Scripture for today comes from Proverbs 28:13, and today's worship is Out of Hiding by Steffany Gretzinger.
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| 0:00.0 | In our last podcast and our week long focus on forgiveness, today we're going to look |
| 0:08.8 | at what it takes to forgive ourselves. For some of us, forgiving ourselves can actually |
| 0:13.8 | be the hardest part of forgiveness. So may God give us the grace to see ourselves |
| 0:18.8 | as He does, and offer ourselves love, compassion, and forgiveness, regardless of what we've |
| 0:25.2 | done. Welcome to the 1st of Teen Podcast. |
| 0:38.2 | Our verse of today comes from Proverbs 28-13, which says, |
| 0:42.8 | Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and |
| 0:48.7 | forsakes them will obtain mercy. As Christians, striving to love others well |
| 0:56.1 | and live an obedience to the commands of Christ, we often are harder on ourselves |
| 1:01.3 | than our Heavenly Father is. If we are ever going to experience the depths of |
| 1:06.7 | God's love in every season, we must learn to forgive ourselves. In Brennan |
| 1:12.7 | Manning's book, Abbas Child, the cry of the heart for intimate belonging, he |
| 1:17.5 | writes a powerful statement that has the ability to both guide us to a greater |
| 1:22.2 | lifestyle of peace and open the door of our hearts to greater affections from |
| 1:27.6 | our Heavenly Father. Manning writes, but we cannot assume that he feels about us |
| 1:33.3 | the way we feel about ourselves unless we love ourselves compassionately, |
| 1:38.5 | intensely, and freely. In human form, Jesus revealed to us what God is like. He |
| 1:46.4 | exposed our projections for the idolatry that they are and gave us the way to |
| 1:51.0 | become free of them. It takes a profound conversion to accept that God is |
| 1:56.6 | relentlessly tender and compassionate toward us just as we are, not in spite of |
| 2:02.5 | our sins and faults. That would not be total acceptance, but with them. Though |
| 2:08.4 | God does not condone our sanction evil, he does not withhold his love because |
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