God is always calling us out of our illusions and into Kingdom reality.

The religious worldly mind

calls us backward

into the realm of the past.

And that realm of the past will then cause us to live in unreality.

God is present future.

He is always talking about now

and calling us into future.

This is why,

when we confess our sins

he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins

and then we move into his reality.

This is why you feel free.

You are back in sync with God.

Sadly,

many people conjure up and relive the past over and over again

and they are living and being defined by things

that are gone.

This is the illusion that God has not forgiven.

The religious mind thinks

God forgives us

but we still have to do something to make it happen.

This is not reality.

In today's gospel,

Jesus comes to John

and John declares that Jesus is the Lamb of God

who takes away the sin of the world.

And then John says this,

my ministry is for a season.

My ministry and my baptism is only here

to point the way to someone else,

and this one is here.

And then John gives us the point.

The one coming after me

will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

You will not be baptized in water,

but in the Holy Spirit.

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