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THERE IS NOTHING
TO PREVENT US FROM BEING TOGETHER
My friend!
There is nothing between us to prevent us
from being together.
You just cannot forgive yourself for being human.
I have decided to change
that strict, punitive aspect of your personality.
I will only do so if you give Me permission to do so.
May I?
Good.
It is about time.
In fact, such change is long overdue.
I tell you now.
Non forgiveness of self is the biggest fault of man.
It is because of pride.
You cannot believe the faults you have.
You cannot believe that you do the very things you hate.
These "faults" are what make you human.
They stem from a part of your psyche
that brings you down from your high places within yourself. They remind you of your humanity.
They take away from your ability
to walk on water even if it is frozen.
Nobody likes to accept their imperfections
because they believe I cannot accept them.
This rejection of My mercy is especially true
if they are trying to walk
as closely as possible with Me as they can.
They say such things as,
"You should know better.
After all the spiritual gifts you have been given,
you persist in your petty flaws.
How stupid can you be?"
Then they are off to the races
impugning themselves and berating themselves.
You know this is so.
You view yourself as so flawed
that your soul looks like Swiss cheese.
How foolish you are!
You leave the door open to satan
to creep in through false pride.
All you have to do is accept yourself as human,
ask for My forgiveness of whatever the fault may be
and learn to accept that you have been forgiven.
Everything is great up until "learn that you are forgiven."
How do you learn this after so many years
of berating yourself for this fault or another fault?
You know all of the above but you still become angry
when faults surface as either actions or emotional responses to viewing outcomes of past poor performance.
You have to turn your will over to Me.
You have to tell Me in your heart
that you can't control your response patterns
to events in the present or your response pattern
to thoughts about events in the past
that affect your emotional patterns in the here and now.
Once I have permission to work on changing you from within, I set about the tasks of:
1. Lessening your pride filled image of yourself
as being perfect,
2. Changing your perspective
that you must be perfect to be "worthy" of My love,
3. Helping you to realize that in Me all is changed by My Love.
I do not do this in usual obvious ways.
I show you how I love you
in spite of all of your negative thoughts about yourself.
I show you that I do not demand perfection, you do.
How terrible it would be if you were perfect!
Only I have that distinction.
I appreciate your seeking to be perfect like Me,
but, honestly, you don't stand a chance.
Your very imperfections endear you to Me.
They do not alienate you from Me.
You do so with your unrelenting castigation of yourself.
That negative berating must stop.
You insult Me by telling Me I am wrong to forgive you.
I must be too lenient.
My friend, I am perfect forgiveness.
I know that you resent your failings and seek punishment. My friend, there is enough pain and punishment in this world.
Today, will you let Me repair the hole in your psyche?
I did not create it.
You did.
May I change your heart just for today?
Good!
That is a start.
You never know.
True self-forgiveness may be just around the corner.
Love,
Jesus
