Forgiving Yourself
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 14 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 Good to Me by First15 Worship feat. Taylor Zebracki.
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As believers, we want a real connection with God every day, not just on Sunday. We want the peace and passion that comes from living with God, not for God. But when Monday morning rolls around we’re left thinking:
“Now what?” “How do I find and keep a daily connection with my Creator on my own?”
At First15, we know that meaningful worship isn’t just for Sunday. Every believer should be able to find a daily connection to God with fresh worship created specifically for their weekday.
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| 0:00.0 | In our last podcast and our week-long focus on forgiveness, today we're going to look at what it takes to forgive ourselves. |
| 0:11.4 | For some of us, forgiving ourselves can actually be the hardest part of forgiveness. |
| 0:16.4 | So may God give us the grace to see ourselves as He does, and offer ourselves love, compassion, |
| 0:23.1 | and forgiveness, regardless of what we've done. |
| 0:26.3 | Welcome to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | Our version today comes from Proverbs 2813, which says, Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. |
| 0:53.3 | As Christians, striving to love others well and live and forsakes them will obtain mercy. |
| 0:55.0 | As Christians, striving to love others well and live in obedience to the commands of Christ, |
| 1:01.0 | we often are harder on ourselves than our Heavenly Father is. |
| 1:06.0 | If we are ever going to experience the depths of God's love in every season, we must learn to forgive ourselves. |
| 1:13.6 | In Brandon Manning's book, Abba's Child, The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging, |
| 1:18.6 | he writes a powerful statement that has the ability to both guide us to a greater lifestyle of peace |
| 1:25.6 | and open the door of our hearts to greater affections from our Heavenly Father. |
| 1:30.3 | Manning writes, but we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves, |
| 1:37.3 | unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely. |
| 1:43.3 | In human form, Jesus revealed to us what God is like. He exposed our |
| 1:48.9 | projections for the idolatry that they are and gave us the way to become free of them. It takes |
| 1:55.2 | a profound conversion to accept that God is relentlessly tender and compassionate toward us, just as we are. |
| 2:03.2 | Not in spite of our sins and faults, that would not be total acceptance, but with them. |
| 2:09.8 | Though God does not condone or sanction evil, he does not withhold his love because there is evil in us. |
| 2:18.3 | Our Father loves us unconditionally. |
| 2:21.3 | His grace and mercy will never run out. |
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