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    The Rabbi's Heartbeat
    The Rabbi's Heartbeat
    The Rabbi's Heartbeat
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    The Rabbi's Heartbeat

    By Brennan Manning

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    As Abba’s children, we need only to define ourselves through His Son, just as the apostle John did—as one beloved by God. Through this timeless devotional, author and speaker Brennan Manning brings you from a lukewarm, distant faith to being close enough to lean against Jesus—the Great Rabbi—and listen to His heartbeat. Adapted from the best-seller Abba’s Child, this daily reminder of the Father’s relentless love will help you accept your identity as a child of God as you grow in spiritual formation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateFeb 27, 2014
    ISBN9781617472022
    The Rabbi's Heartbeat
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    Brennan Manning

    Brennan Manning spent his life and ministry helping others experience the unconditional love of Jesus Christ. A recovering alcoholic and former Franciscan priest, his own spiritual journey took him down a variety of paths, all of them leading to the profound reality of God’s irresistible grace. His ministry responsibilities varied greatly – from teacher, to minister to the poor, to solidary reflective. As a writer, Brennan Manning is best known as the author of the contemporary classics, The Ragamuffin Gospel, Abba’s Child, Ruthless Trust, The Importance of Being Foolish, Patched Together, and The Furious Longing of God.

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      The Rabbi's Heartbeat - Brennan Manning

      The Rabbi doesn’t want us to be perfect, just real. Yet at times we try so hard to please God and impress others—determined to be perfect Christians—that we’re sucked dry of energy and sickened by our own slick surface and inner hypocrisy. It leaves us feeling dangerously brittle, as lifeless and fruitless as a tree in midwinter swoon.

      We need a divine transfusion. The Rabbi’s heartbeat is for us, not against us. Though He will always cut away the counterfeit green and barrenness of our hypocrisy, He will never crush the bruised reed of our broken lives. The hewn branches He leaves along the pathway are never the result of disgust, but always the result of His care-filled pruning.

      Come then, with Brennan, and listen to the Rabbi’s heartbeat; lean in close to the warm reality of what His incarnation and resurrection can mean in the routines of your life. Feel the vitality that returns to your soul when you accept yourself, receive His love, and revel in His grace.

      I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish (Ezekiel 17:24).

      INTRODUCTION

      "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,

      that we should be called children of God!

      And that is what we are."

      1 JOHN 3:1

      "No thought can contain Him, no word can express Him;

      He is beyond anything we can intellectualize or imagine."

      B. MANNING

      "I have come that they might have life, and that they

      might have it more abundantly."

      JOHN 10:10

      he dark riddle of life is illuminated in Jesus; the meaning, purpose, and goal of everything that happens to us, and the way to make it all count can only be learned from the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Nothing that exists can exist beyond the pale of His presence, nothing is irrelevant to it, nothing is without significance in it.

      The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. As a father gathers his children into his arms at the end of a long and tiring day, so God longs to draw us into His embrace. No matter what your past or present, come; lean back in the shelter of His love and listen to the Rabbi’s heartbeat. Let Him teach you about life, death, and eternity as Abba’s beloved child. Take an unflinching look at yourself as you really are. Then look at who you are meant to become as you travel this earth as a child of God on the journey called life.

      CHAPTER ONE

      SAFE

      Quit keeping score altogether and surrender yourself with all your sinfulness to God who sees neither the score nor the scorekeeper but only his child redeemed by Christ.

      THOMAS MERTON

      Living out of the false self creates a compulsive desire to present a perfect image to the public so that everybody will admire us and nobody will know us.

      B. MANNING

      dam and Eve hid, and we all have used them as role models. God calls us to stop hiding and come openly to Him. Why do we hide?

      Simon Tugwell, in his book The Beatitudes, explains:

      We either flee our own reality or manufacture a false self which is mostly admirable, mildly prepossessing, and superficially happy. We hide what we know or feel ourselves to be (which we assume to be unacceptable and unlovable) behind some kind of appearance which we hope will be more pleasing. We hide behind pretty faces, which we put on for the benefit of our public. And in time we may even forget that we are hiding, and think that our assumed pretty face is what we really look like.¹

      God is the father who ran to his prodigal son when he came limping home. God weeps over us when shame and self-hatred immobilize us. God loves who we really are— whether we like it or not, and calls us, as He did Adam, to come out of hiding into a safe place. No amount of spiritual makeup can render us more presentable to Him. Come to Me now, Jesus says. Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs.

      It used to be that I never felt safe with myself unless I was performing flawlessly. Unwittingly I had projected onto God my feelings about myself. I felt safe with Him only when I saw myself as noble, generous, and loving, without scars, fears, or tears. Perfect!

      Then, one radiant morning on a retreat deep in the Colorado Rockies, I came out

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