Repentance – the continual act of doing penance, over and over and over again.

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When coming to know Christ as all in all, you can expect to come to the end of all you have thought you knew to be truth, reality. “For we know in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away” (1 Cor. 13:9). The Apostle Paul is saying here, when we meet Him face to face (intimately), we see Him as He is. The veil is ripped from our thinking, mindset, and we truly see how things TRULY are. He is becoming our very life.

Well then, what happens to us? We are merging into Him. Losing our life into His. We were only separate in our thinking, our minds. We were deceived into thinking we were a separate “I” trying to live and do apart from Him (our own god).

The original Greek word for “repentance” (which the translators changed to fit their narrative) is “Metanoia” which means a radical shift in our thinking, our belief system. It’s a WOW, I get it now! That’s it, I SEE it! We are being brought into the eye-opening truth that the only thing I do is SEE that it’s finished, It’s all about HIM. I see now, that I have been united to Him from the beginning but I was hoodwinked into believing I was an independent I trying to live my own life (apart from Him, doing and acting of my own accord).

This radical change of mindset THEN alters our behavior over time as Christ is becoming our life. It’s a total journey of faith. He is now going to live the life within Me. I cannot have salvation, joy, hope, faith apart from Him and He doesn’t dispense these to Me. He IS all of these things. He is going to come up in me and live the life that He is asking of Me. THIS is the GOOD NEWS!

We were darkened in our thinking; we thought ourselves to be an independent I to do and be as a separate being, a god within myself, to act independently apart from Him. We were brought into all forms of false illusions and delusions which then became our identity. Thus, we were “lost.” Until we cried out, “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver Me?”(Romans 7:24).

Christ was right there to say “I already have.” It is finished. Now, we breathe a sigh of relief and take that word repentance out of our vocabulary. There is no need to continue doing penance. IT IS FINSIHED means just that! We realize it was done, once for all. We then take Him to be the TRUTH, having done it once for all. The illusions that I have to do or be something in and of myself have been ripped from our thinking and we are brought back into our original place, back into sonship, restored to our original intention – that of Divine love in Christ, with the Father, through the work of the Holy Spirit.

This process, this journey, will cost you EVERYTHING! Everything will be tested as you are being brought into love-union relationship once again; on a journey day by day, moment to moment with your Beloved. You are coming to know Him as your very all. But oh, the joy in the process; the love that you experience is pure ecstasy. Peace in the middle of pure hellish situations. Calm when crushed. Comforted like warm honey coming up as a spring within.

Where does it come from? How does this come about? He does not give us any of this apart from giving us Himself. HE IS ALL THESE THINGS. He is becoming all these specific things; love, peace, comfort, joy. He cannot dispense all these things apart from Himself. We come to know HIM in a deep communion, a merging into Him, in and through each difficult situation, hard time, betrayal of humankind, suffering. There is JOY in the way.

We understand that these situations are only seasons and will not last forever. That we can have JOY in our sorrow. Peace that passes all human comprehension. He will be there every step of the way and bring us through.

There are also many times of rest, pleasant times and “green pastures” as He leads us on to knowing Him intimately (face to face as said above). This is what the Apostle Paul meant. An intimate knowing, experientially.

Whatever place we find ourselves, He is within and We in Him. He never leaves us. He is feeding us (taking care of all that concerns us) with His own hand. He is the source of all things. He is the sustenance. He is becoming all in all, in and through each and every thing. The key here is > SURRENDER and ABANDON in each moment.

And trust me from experience, the pain comes when we refuse to surrender and abandon. Oh the joy of release when we surrender saying “All to Jesus, I surrender. All to Him I freely give.”

Salvation – wholeness in every area. Especially our mind.