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mongoose:
Oh, I meant to add this as well.  The passage "Jesus looked at him and loved him"...applies to us as well as those who have to been shown the truth (unbelievers).  This is something that I think I have been learning lately.  How hard is it sometimes to apply the love and forgiveness that we are commanded to show for one another to ourselves.  Not to raise ourselves up or anything like that...but I struggle to forgive myself for things.  How can we deny ourselves the forgiveness that He has already given us?  It seems absurd to do that, and yet also so easy sometimes.

I wonder if that is what Paul meant when he wrote:

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.  
All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.
Only let us live up to what we have already attained. Philippians 3: 12-16

Forgetting what is behind (forgiving ourselves as He forgives us) and straining on towards what is ahead (seeking His kingdom and waiting in hope for the day when He will finish His work in us and we will finally be whole and home with Him), I press on....

mongoose

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