Forgive as We've Been Forgiven, Hymn 183, (2016/10/10)

Hymn 183, Forgive as we have been forgiven Posted 10/10/16

Originally posted under a different Blog category (I've made too many because I didn't know what I was doing!)

Hmm 183

Forgive as we've been forgiven

Related to target rings" mirror image of our own faults'

As we face and work through ours, then they resolve, and we no longer resent the other with the same target ring. 

If we don't, we keep resenting them and ours stays active

The concept described in more detail. 

Sunday as we sang the sacrament hymn, I saw a big gospel /GNM connection. I
realize that hymns are not solid doctrine always,  but they are close and based off doctrine. 

So the hymn sung today was hymn 183.

One line says :

"Forgive as we've been forgiven"

Related to target rings and to my paradigm that the things that bother us in others are a "mirror image of our own faults".

As we use those irritations about others to identify our own defects, and as we face and work through them, our target rings resolve, and we are free from the burden of the pain-which often leads us to feelings and behavior which separate us from Christ-like behavior and therefore create a larger separation between us and Christ himself. That can be (loosely) defined as sin because it separates us from Christ.

When we no longer labor under that burden because we resolve the target ring, and are free from it (just like being forgiven), the same "reflective faults" of others no longer bother us and we no longer resent others with the same target ring: i.e. we forgive them.  That is how it patterns after "forgive as we are forgiven" 

If we don't work through ours, we keep resenting and blaming others with these same reflective faults, behaviors, attitudes or target rings.  0ur target rings stay active/ we remain in the behavior and patterns separating us from Christ and we remain in our unrepentant and thus un-forgiven state of "sin".
 

Forgive as we've been forgiven, or as we repent we can forgive others.

Just what struck me.