11-25-11 “He did deliver me from bondage” p. 128 Day 7

11-25-11    “He did deliver me from bondage”  p. 128  Day 7 

http://lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/26?lang=eng      Mosiah 26:30

30 Yea, and ^aas often as my people ^brepent will I forgive them their trespasses against me.

That is a very merciful promise.  It doesn’t say ‘I’ll forgive them if they never do it again’.  It does not appear to be a conditional promise.  Regardless of previous or even future circumstances, the promise is that as often as we repent we will be forgiven.  That makes God pretty approachable, wouldn’t you say?

How has my perception of the degree of His love changed?  I think the greatest change in this has been at the realization of what God, my Heavenly Father, wants for me.  Some people imagine up unto themselves a God who is cold and apathetic toward us.  I used to feel on an unconscious level this kind of numb relationship regarding how God felt about me. 

  

I truly think I gained my original perceptions about God through the eyes of my childhood.  I have seen in my life that as parents the way we are to our children is the later perception they gain of God.  I know it is a very heavy weight, but I have seen it through experience that has taught me this reality in my life.  So when I learned that God actually is not figuratively sitting in the Lazy Boy reading the news paper, but is actually sitting on the sidelines on the edge of His seat, my perception of Him changed.  Now I understand what God wants for me in an active anxious way to succeed and He has already paved the pathway for that to be possible.