June 1st, 2014 Lesson 76
I am under no laws but God's.
- Intention: To remember the truth about who we really are, and about who God really is.
. - Practice:
Two 15-minute sessions with eyes closed. In addition, shorter
(2-minute) applications of today's idea four or five times every hour, and in response to any temptation to experience ourselves as subject to other laws throughout the day.
- Application: Long sessions --
Begin each session by reviewing the different kinds of "laws" we have believed we must obey. These would include, for example, the "laws" of nutrition, of immunization, of medication, and of the body's protection in innumerable ways. Think further; you believe in the "laws" of friendship, of "good" relationships and reciprocity. Perhaps you even think that there are laws which set forth what is "God's and what is yours. Many "religions" have bee based on this. They would not save but damn in Heaven's name. Yet they are no more strange than other "laws" you hold must be obeyed to make you safe.
Today's idea dismisses all foolish magical beliefs and hold your mind in silent readiness to hear the Voice that speaks the truth to you. You will be listening to One Who says there is no loss under the laws of God. ... God's laws forever give and never take. Here Him Who tells you this and realize how foolish are the "laws" you thought upheld the world you thought you saw. Then listen further. He will tell you more. About the Love your Father has for you. About the endless joy He offers you. ... .
Let us today open ourselves to God's Voice and let His will extend through us, thus increasing creation. His Voice will speak of this to us , as well as of the joys of Heaven which His laws keep limitless forever. We will repeat today's idea until we have listened and understood there are no laws but God's. Then we will tell ourselves, as a dedication with which the practice period concludes:I am under no laws but God's.
- Application: Short session -- Repeat today's idea with dedication, for the duration of the short practice session.
- Application: If tempted to believe laws other than God's -- silently repeat today's idea in response to such temptation. It is our statement of freedom from all danger and all tyranny. It is our acknowledgment that God is our Father and that His Son is saved.
Insights/comments:
- Today's lesson strikes directly at the heart of what keeps us bound to this world--our belief that it is real, and that we must obey its laws or we will be damned, either here or in the hereafter. Even though we realize that these made-up laws change, are biased, blind and in many instances unjust, we still believe in them, because this is what we were taught, and because this is what we see others among us, to a large extent, believing in, and because we do not know, or more correctly, remember anything better. How can these laws be God's laws if they are susceptible to time and space, to change and favoritism, to preferences and errors on the part of those who create, uphold and administer these "laws." For these reasons alone, we should be willing to question the validity of our entire system of "laws."
- On the other side of the equation, we have God's infallible laws: All is one. Love is all there is. God created us perfect, Spirit, and free. We are the light of the world and it is only when we challenge the validity of the laws we currently believe in that we can finally move in the direction of the love and happiness that God's laws affords us.
Love created us. Be the light of love and save the world. 
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