{"id":82,"date":"2007-07-19T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2014-07-06T07:07:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:07:59","slug":"living-happy-or-sad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?page_id=82","title":{"rendered":"Living Happy or Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Roy Waldrom<\/strong><br \/>\nA person wrote to say,<br \/>\n&#8220;Your message on judgment has really challenged me! Before<br \/>\nreading it I thought I was a very non-judgmental person, I guess<br \/>\nthat happens, doesn&#8217;t it.&#8221;<br \/>\nYes, sad to say, it&#8217;s true. I came to the same place when I<br \/>\nwitnessed what was happening with people I was involved with.<br \/>\nI asked Jesus by the Spirit to show me what the truth of my heart<br \/>\nwas.<br \/>\nI was shocked.<br \/>\nThere was nothing but pure judgment out of self. There was no<br \/>\ncompassion, no grace, just a hard heart that needed much<br \/>\nrepentance to soften.<br \/>\nI have to daily work on it and am a little better as I seek to practice<br \/>\nwhat I preach.<br \/>\nThe joy is that it all helps me to have a living relationship with the<br \/>\nlover of my soul.<br \/>\nIt is the communication that takes place between Abba Father and<br \/>\nmyself that makes life worth living with a capital &#8220;L&#8217;.<br \/>\nJohn 15:3. &#8220;Now you are clean through the word which I have<br \/>\nspoken unto you.&#8221;<br \/>\nI am clean through the cleansing blood of the lamb.<br \/>\nThere is no way I can cleanse myself.<br \/>\nAll through physical life after I came to a knowledge of salvation,<br \/>\nThe choice that I daily face is that I can at all times be happy or sad.<br \/>\nI can live free with peace reigning in my inner being,<br \/>\nOr be depressed and angry, being ruled by people and issues that<br \/>\ncause frustration and end up with all sorts of physical problems.<br \/>\nAs the Children of Israel were saved out of Egypt and had a<br \/>\nwilderness experience till they entered the promised land, so do we.<br \/>\nGetting Israel out of Egypt was the easy part, getting Egypt out of<br \/>\nIsrael was much harder.<br \/>\nThrough human eyes The children of Israel missed it, because they<br \/>\nwitnessed the giants looking at them. Two however, looked at the<br \/>\ngiants through Abba Father&#8217;s eyes and lived in victory through the<br \/>\nwilderness and entered the promised land.<br \/>\nWhat is the promised land for people on earth today?<br \/>\nIt is living in such a state that, no matter what their circumstances,<br \/>\npeople have within, a bubbling wellspring of Love, Joy, and<br \/>\nPeace.<br \/>\nAs a person said after they had lived through a violent storm.<br \/>\n&#8220;If I knew I was going to live through it I would have enjoyed it a<br \/>\nwhole lot more.&#8221;<br \/>\nTo live in a place where the inner man is at all times totally at peace<br \/>\nis heaven on earth.<br \/>\nPeace only has one enemy, judging.<br \/>\nPeace and judging cannot live in the same room.<br \/>\nAll will find True Life who are prepared to choose not to judge<br \/>\nusing knowledge from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.<br \/>\n(choosing from self)<br \/>\nBut, instead, by going to the Tree of Life (to the Holy Spirit) in<br \/>\nevery situation where a response is required, and respond as<br \/>\ndirected. These will find True Life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:royw@ihug.co.nz\">Contact Roy Waldrom<\/a><br \/>\nMay, 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roy Waldrom A person wrote to say, &#8220;Your message on judgment has really challenged me! Before reading it I thought I was a very non-judgmental person, I guess that happens, doesn&#8217;t it.&#8221; Yes, sad to say, it&#8217;s true. 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