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is to see that you’ve never been in them.
It’s knowing
without a shadow of doubt
that you’ve been the perfect man all along.
Wasn’t that what Jesus was telling us
when he said,
“Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free?” *
Wasn’t the truth we were to know
the truth that we were free already—
that we had never lost our true identity
as God’s own image and likeness—
that we didn’t need to now climb out
of somewhere we’d never been?
—Lona Ingwerson
