September 2nd 2014 Lesson 168
Your grace is given me. I claim it now.
- Intention: To remember that God's grace and gifts are given me.
- Practice: Spend
thirty minutes twice today as we awake and just before going to sleep
to lay aside our limited understanding of things and remember that God's Grace is given me, I have only to claim it. In addition let us remember
to claim God's Gace in our lives at the start of every hour of the day.
- Application: -- Today we ask of God the gift He has most carefully preserved
within our hearts, waiting to be acknowledged. This the gift
by which God leans to us and lifts us up, taking salvation's
final step Himself. All steps but this we learn, instructed by
His Voice. But finally He comes Himself, and takes us in His
Arms and sweeps away the cobwebs of our sleep. His gift of grace
is more than just an answer. It restores all memories the sleeping
mind forgot; all certainty of what Love's meaning is.
God loves His Son. Request Him now to give the means by which this world will disappear, and vision first will come, with knowledge but an instant later. For in grace you see a light that covers all the world in love, and watch fear disappear from every face as hearts rise up and claim the light as theirs.
What now remains that Heaven be delayed an instant longer? What is still undone when your forgiveness rests on everything? It is a new and holy day today, for we receive what has been given us. Our faith lies in the Giver, not our own acceptance. We acknowledge our mistakes, but He to Whom all error is unknown is yet the One Who answers our mistakes by giving us the means to lay them down, and rise to Him in gratitude and love.
Insights/comments:
- We are one with God and cannot be apart from Him, except in dreams and illusions. Yet, His gifts and grace await our asking and receiving, and it is in claiming and sharing His gifts and grace that we know we truly have them to give. By reminding ourselves of this at the start of each hour will we find the courage to claim what God has already given us. I know, it often seems like the world of our senses is a cold and desolate place, but this is just the reflection of our own limited understanding. Let us close our eyes to the ways of the world and open our awareness to the gifts God has given us, claiming His grace for our own salvation and the salvation of the world.
I and my Creator are One. 
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