September 26th 2014 Lesson 192
I have a function God would have me fill.
- Intention: To remember that the function God would have us fill is to forgive our brothers and the world for what we thought they did or didn't do to us.
- Practice:
Twice today, let us go to that quiet place within our hearts and minds
where the Light and Love and Joy of God abides. Let us leave behind all
thoughts about anything and relax into that deep refreshing silence,
the Heaven that God established forever in us. And in that silence accept our true Identity as the holy children of God. In this experience of peace we can release all fear and guilt, and know that we are one with our Creator, perfect, Spirit, free. To know this truth is the fulfillment of our divine function, but we have another function in the world of form--forgiveness.
- Application: Forgiveness
gently looks upon all things unknown in Heaven, sees them disappear,
and leaves the world a clean and unmarked slate on which the Word of God
can now replace the senseless symbols written there before. Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome. It lets the body be perceived as what it is; a simple teaching aid, to be laid by when learning is complete, but hardly changing him who learns at all.
The body is the source of all attack, the core of anguish and the seat of fear. The mind without the body cannot make mistakes. It cannot think that it will die, nor be the prey of merciless attack. Anger becomes impossible, and where is terror then? Only forgiveness can relieve the mind of thinking that the body is its home. Only forgiveness can restore the peace that God intended for His holy Son. Only forgiveness can persuade the Son to look again upon his holiness. Only forgiveness offers the gift of Christ's vision. Who can be born again in Christ but him who has forgiven everyone he sees or thinks of or imagines? Who could be set free while he imprisons anyone?
Therefore hold no one prisoner. Release instead of bind, for thus are you made free. The way is simple. Every time you feel a stab of anger, realize you hold a sword above your head. And it will fall or be averted as you choose to be condemned or free. Thus does each one who seems to tempt you to be angry represent your savior form the prison house of death. And so you owe him thanks instead of pain.
Be merciful today. The Son of God deserves your mercy. It is he who asks that you accept the way to freedom now. Deny him not. Your function here on earth is only to forgive him, that you may accept him back as your identity. He is as God created him. And you are what he is. Forgive him now his sins, and you will see that you are one with him.
Insights/comments:
- We
are all the holy children of God; we are as God created us: perfect,
Spirit and free, yet we think of ourselves as vulnerable, guilty,
mortal, and afraid of death in all its forms. Yet this is what
forgiveness can heal. Forgiveness
is a dream, but one that does not perpetuate other dreams, nor itself.
Instead Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you
has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees
there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven. What
is sin, except a false idea about God's Son? Forgiveness merely sees
its falsity, and therefore lets it go. God's Will is then free to take
the place of the false ideas we hold about our brothers.
- Forgiveness is a difficult concept for us only because we believe that what we perceive is real. But there is another reality, true, and far beyond our perception, the place where we came from and to where we must return home. In that reality we know ourselves to be Spirit, and therefore have none of the fears we experience here in the world of form. Our function here on earth then is to remember our true reality as Spirit and as one with God and all of creation. Forgiveness is the only means to regain our memory, and therefore forgiveness is our only function here.
I and my Creator are One.
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