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In this world Jesus is found sharing with the poor. Learning to serve the poor opens the heavens for those with a pure heart longing to draw closer to the Lord Jesus. This photo was taken in the Philippines. The children seated were all begging for food, it is always a joy to feed the hungry.

Seated in Heavenly Places

The world doesn’t work without forgiveness and spiritual growth requires the creation of a new self through self-transcendence.

Spiritual life is a daily challenge to transcend oneself, to truly sit in heavenly places where although the past is remembered it is embraced with an empathy leading to forgiveness for self and all others, where viewing reality in Christ enables the creativity of imagination to create a new self; that is a Christ like self, a redeemed self, a relational self-unchained from the brokenness that marks our lives.

If God appeared in God’s transcendence, we would not know it, yet we can transcend ourselves through reflection on our lives that offers empathy to every soul we have encountered, we can enter the rest that Jesus invites us into through forgiveness and imagination that works toward creating a new world where we are no longer an impediment to the work of the Spirit.

Since there is no one wholly righteous, it is self-righteousness, the desire to be vindicated, that disables empathy for all, halts forgiveness, and blinds us from the imaginative creativity brought by the Spirit when we transcend the world to be seated with Jesus.

The world doesn’t work without forgiveness.