No matter how many big or little sufferings we offer up, if we do not also allow God to transform the thoughts and emotions surrounding our sufferings, we have not really discerned or submitted to their purpose; we have not undergone the deep transformation that Jesus died to give us and that the Bible calls a Sabbath rest.
Because it is such a profound, secret work, only God can identify and accomplish in us the deep soul work of purgatory, or sanctification, as thoroughly as we need it. He does not simply cover our sins with his blood, he scrubs out the deep, set-in wounds, “all unrighteousness.” We can and must dispose ourselves to receive this rest, but is always still a gift, one that God insistently offers us through the repeating circumstances and relationships that are meant to attract our attention and cooperation.
WHAT WE DISCUSSED | SHOW NOTESOverview:
Minutes 00:12:00 – Visualization exercise for transforming emotion (continued from last week)
Minutes 12:01-24:00 – Addressing and battling worthlessness, healing the root
Minutes 24:01-36:00 – Mirror exercise
Minutes 36:01-48:00 – “There is now no condemnation” (Rom 8:1); praise confounds the enemy
