Part 1 Undoing the Way We See Things Now
REVIEW V God is Love, and therefore so am I.
LESSON 179
- (167) There is one life, and that I share with God. God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
- (168) Your grace is given me. I claim it now. God is but Love, and therefore so am I.[1]
Daily Prayer for Review:
Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.
So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us. In Jesus name. Amen.
Personal Notes and Application: As we review Lesson 167, There is one life and that I share with God, Jesus reminds us that it does not matter that there appears to be death in this world – it simply does not exist. Nothing in time is real – it passes away into nothingness as soon as it begins – it is impossible for anything to really exist in time because time itself is not real. Our whole experiences in the world of time then, can be likened to a dream, an imaginary state, a virtual reality where once awakened, the mind, our eternal spirits, continue as we always have – safe in the one life that we share with God.
Jesus calls upon us to wake up to this fact. We were created in unity of life, He reminds us, nothing, not even death can separate us from the Source of life from which we came. As we wake up and accept the truth about ourselves, about God, about our Holiness in Christ we no longer need to be coaxed or persuaded into forsaking death in all its forms – we have no interest in it and we no longer believe in the reality of anything that does not pertain to our life in God.
In Lesson 168, we claim the grace that God gives us. He is our Father. He is available to us. He answers when we call. We call to Him because we know His Love and are certain of His devotion to us. No longer do we try to serve a god we fear, someone we must grovel before and chastise our humanity. There is no god who holds our mistakes against us, who terrorizes us with thoughts of hell and damnation, who would let His Son be tortured throughout eternity. These are lies that are taught to us to control and manipulate us, to keep us from our true heritage in God, to keep us from knowing and experiencing His grace.
God’s gift of grace restores the memory of Him to our sleeping minds, God’s gift of grace restores the certainty of the meaning of His love. Ask Him today to give you the means by which this world will disappear, and vision will come. And after vision, Jesus promises, we will know. It is God’s grace that gives us light that covers our world with love. We can watch every single fear disappear from every face as hearts rise up and take the light as their own.
God’s grace is ours. We claim it today.
We come to you, Father. And You come to those who ask. We are the Son You love. In Jesus name. Amen.
[1] A Course in Miracles. Workbook for Students. Lesson 179. Foundation for Inner Peace, Second Edition (1992).
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