Am I Perfected in Agape Love?

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God doesn't choose to remember my iniquities..  Now under the blood of Jesus, God separates my sins from me forever!  Someone's who's been forgiven as much as i've been forgiven has no right to keep a record of someone else's mistakes.  i shall thinketh no evil and keep no records and because i am a child of God; or, i should say because i realize now that i am a child of God, i thought no evil of the man who died, who had lived in the same house as i had three and a half years ago.  Jesus released me from my past and now i'm on the right track.  


i know i am not perfected in agape love; yet, God threw  away His diary about me, so i need to throw away mine.  YAH , take away my scheming and manipulating tendencies that sill reside in my soul, though i may be fooling myself that they might have disappeared from my brain.  Or heart.  i don't want to disappoint You anymore.  What i took for granted before, having no idea that i was displeasing you.  Keep me aware and help me change, Abba Father.  

"Consider what I say; and the Lord give me understanding in all things." -[2 Timothy 2:7]  He despised the work of the Cross--i mean, who wouldn't!--and then He knew He had to descend into hell for three days.  Like Jesus, i must keep my eyes permanently fixed on  the desire God planted in my heart that pertains to my part in His plan.  i'm on stage now and everybody's watching trying to catch me making a mistake.  i've become a gazingstock.    


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