{"id":1983,"date":"2016-05-03T02:30:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T07:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twolisteners.org\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2016-05-03T02:30:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T07:30:33","slug":"may-3-kill-self-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"May 3 &#8211; Kill Self Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1327 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/m_ea56.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/m_ea56.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/m_ea56-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Self dethroned \u2013 that is the lesson, but in its place put Love for Me, knowledge of Me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Self, not only dethroned, but dead. A dead self is not an imprisoned self.\u00a0 An imprisoned self is more potent to harm. In all training \u2013 (in Mine of you, and in yours of others) \u2013 let self die.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">But for each blow to the life of self you must at the same time embrace and hold fast the new Life, Life with Me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">It is not a dead self that men have to fear, but a thwarted, captive, imprisoned self.\u00a0 That self is infinitely more self-centered than the self allowed full play. \u00a0But to you, My children, I teach a higher science-law than even freedom of the self.\u00a0 I teach death to the self.\u00a0 No repressions, just death.\u00a0 Petty self-life exchanged for Divine Life<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">And now I can make more clear to you what I would say about forgiveness of injuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">But what you do not see is that you, the self in you, can never forgive injuries.\u00a0 The very thought of them means self in the foreground, then the injury, instead of appearing less, appears greater. It is one of My commands that as you seek My forgiveness, so you must forgive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">No, My children, as all true Love is <em>of<\/em> God and is God, so all true forgiveness is of God and is God. The self cannot forgive. Kill self.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Cease trying to forgive those who fretted or wronged you.\u00a0 It is a mistake to think about it.\u00a0 Aim at killing the self now \u2013 in your daily life, and then, and not until then, you will find there is nothing that even remembers injury, because the only one injured, the self, is dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">As long as it recurs to your mind you deceive yourself if you think it forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>Many deceive themselves in this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"> <em> \u00a0be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.\u00a0 Romans 6:6<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self dethroned \u2013 that is the lesson, but in its place put Love for Me, knowledge of Me. Self, not only dethroned, but dead. A dead self is not an imprisoned self.\u00a0 An imprisoned self is more potent to harm. In all training \u2013 (in Mine of you, and in yours of others) \u2013 let &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/?p=1983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 3 &#8211; Kill Self Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godcalling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twolisteners.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}