Wun Ming

I’m not even aware of my sin because I don’t even consider my sin. Lord, please help! Please make me know truth in my inner most being. When I slow down to think, I know You are speaking the Truth.

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³¹ So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “ If you continue in My word, then you are truly  disciples of Mine; ³² and  you will know the truth, and  the truth will make you free.” ³³ They answered Him, “ We are Abraham’s descendants and have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,  everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. ³⁵ The slave does not remain in the house forever;  the son does remain forever. ³⁶ So if the Son  makes you free, you will be free indeed. ³⁷ I know that you are  Abraham’s descendants; yet  you seek to kill Me, because My word ^[j]has no place in you. ³⁸ I speak the things which I have seen ^[k]with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from  your father. ³⁹ They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is  our father.” Jesus *said to them, “ If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But as it is,  you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has  told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. ⁴¹ You are doing the deeds of  your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication;  we have one Father: God.” ⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father,  you would love Me,  for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have  not even come on My own initiative, but ^[l] He sent Me. ⁴³ Why do you not understand ^[m] what I am saying? It is because you cannot  hear My word. ⁴⁴ You are of  your father the devil, and  you want to do the desires of your father.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because  there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks ^[n]a lie, he  speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of ^[o]lies. ⁴⁵ But because  I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. ⁴⁶ Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If  I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.

- John 8

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”  My friend Alan Lyle loves this statement by Dietrich Bonheoffer.

Oswald Chambers February 25th entry in My Utmost for His Highest is so clear and beautiful.

“The real test of a saint is not one’s willingness to preach the gospel, but one’s willingness to do something like washing the disciple’s feet [just as Christ did for his disciples as it says in John 13:5*] — that is being willing to those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God…

Paul had no conditions or reservations. Paul focused his life on Jesus’ idea of a New Testament saint; that is, not one who merely proclaims the gospel, but one who becomes broken bread and poured out wine in the hands of Jesus Christ for the sake of others.”

* ⁵ Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. ⁶ So He *came to Simon Peter. He *said to Him, “Lord, do You wash my feet?” ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter.” ⁸ Peter *said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” ⁹ Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.” ¹⁰ Jesus *said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.”  ¹¹ For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

Self! I don’t want to be wicked anymore!