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 Good To Me by First15 Worship feat. Taylor Zebracki.
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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. |
| 0:11.3 | For some of us, forgiving ourselves can actually be the hardest part of forgiveness. |
| 0:16.3 | So may God give us the grace to see ourselves as He does, and offer ourselves love, compassion, |
| 0:22.9 | and forgiveness, regardless of what we've done. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | Our version of 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 in obedience to the commands of Christ, |
| 0:59.0 | we often are harder on ourselves than our Heavenly Father is. |
| 1:04.0 | If we are ever going to experience the depths of God's love in every season, |
| 1:09.0 | we must learn to forgive ourselves. In Brandon Manning's book, |
| 1:13.5 | Abba's Child, The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging, he writes a powerful statement |
| 1:18.9 | that has the ability to both guide us to a greater lifestyle of peace and open the door of our |
| 1:25.2 | hearts to greater affections from our Heavenly Father. |
| 1:29.6 | Manning writes, but we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves, |
| 1:35.9 | unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely. |
| 1:41.6 | In human form, Jesus revealed to us what God is like. He exposed our projections |
| 1:47.0 | for the idolatry that they are and gave us the way to become free of them. It takes a profound |
| 1:54.3 | conversion to accept that God is relentlessly tendered and compassionate toward us, just as we are. Not in spite of our sins and |
| 2:03.2 | faults, that would not be total acceptance, but with them. Though God does not condone or sanction |
| 2:10.0 | evil, he does not withhold his love because there is evil in us. Our Father loves us unconditionally. His grace and mercy will never run out. He is |
| 2:23.6 | never surprised when we sin or fall short of the life to which we've been called because he |
| 2:29.1 | knows our need of him. He knows that without his help, we will never succeed in living a lifestyle of obedience. |
| 2:37.0 | He knows that without consistent encounters with his love, we will never be able to fully love others. |
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