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I was encouraged today by A Holy Experience. Ann Voskamp described the most beautiful way to prepare for Easter and to go deeper with forgiveness as Christ forgave us. She quotes Col. 3:12-14 at the heart of this forgiveness...
"Therefore, as God's chosen people,
holy and dearly loved,
clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness,
humility, gentleness and patience.
Bear with each other and
forgive whatever grievances you may have
against one another.
Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
And over all these virtues put on love,
which binds them all together in perfect
unity."
Something New --
A new practice to show our loving faithfulness to Christ as we embed him into our lives.
Place a bowl of flour dust out on a table. As you read through Colossians follow the guidelines below.
___________________________________________________________________________________FORGIVENESS
Jesus took the nail for your sins. He had to find a way to forgive you. He couldn't live broken away from you.
Right now you hurt. Jesus can give you His strength to forgive. Do you want to find a way to forgive? You too can't live with the brokenness.
Remember how God has forgiven you?
1. Lay your finger in the dust... and write a word or draw a picture of two ways God has forgiven you.
2. Bow your head and thank God for graciously forgiving you.
3. Pass your hand through the dust, erasing the sins and know that God completely forgives you.
Is there someone God is calling you right now to forgive?
1. Write or draw it in the dust.
2. Ask God for His love to forgive --- the same love that has forgiven you.
3. Smooth out the dust and the memory of the sin.
How do you feel now with God’s forgiveness working in and through you?
Write or draw that feeling in the dust, a gift for the next person who comes behind.
__________________________________________________________________________________
I'm moved by this idea and desire to set out to teach my children and experience for myself Christ's true measure of forgiveness as it washes our spirit clean. There are so many opportunities to guide them towards forgiveness and stir in them a desire to draw nearer to Christ and experience His unfailing love.
God that I would be a lamp post for them. That in that calling I too would seek forgiveness and to forgive as you have done for me. That I would always reflect upon the Cross and the day you traded your perfection for my grace. That you would see my sin no more.
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