November 27th 2014 Lesson 253
Part II Introduction
We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal. During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
This is how our times with Him will now be spent: we say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us. Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so. We need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed.
Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us. They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us. The next of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 251 - 260:4. What Is Sin
Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad, and seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it sees illusions where the truth should be, and where it really is. Sin gave the body eyes, for what is there the sinless would behold? What need have they of sights or sounds or touch? What would they hear or reach to grasp? What would they sense at all? To sense is not to know. And truth can be but filled with knowledge, and with nothing else.
The body is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive itself. Its purpose is to strive. Yet can the goal of striving change. And now the body serves a different aim for striving. What it seeks for now is chosen by the aim the mind has taken as replacement for the goal of self-deception. Truth can be its aim as well as lies. The senses then will seek instead for witnesses to what is true.
Sin is the home of all illusions, which but stand for things imagined, issuing from thoughts that are untrue. They are the "proof" that what has no reality is real. Sin "proves" God's Son is evil; timelessness must have an end; eternal life must die. And God Himself has lost the Son He loves, with but corruption to complete Himself, His Will forever overcome by death, love slain by hate, and peace to be no more.
A madman's dreams are frightening, and sin appears indeed to terrify. And yet what sin perceives is but a childish game. The Son of God may play he has become a body, prey to evil and to guilt, with but a little life that ends in death. But all the while his Father shines on him, and loves him with an everlasting Love which his pretenses cannot change at all.
How long, O Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall we not put away these sharp-edged children's toys? How soon will you be ready to come home? Perhaps today? There is no sin. Creation is unchanged. Would you still hold return to Heaven back? How long, O holy Son of God, how long?Lesson 253
My Self is ruler of the universe.
- It is impossible that anything
should come to me unbidden by myself. Even in this world, it is I who
rule my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is
what I do not want to happen. This must I accept. For thus am I led
past this world to my creations, children of my will, in Heaven where my holy Self abides with them and Him Who has created me.
- Invitation Prayer: You are the Self Whom You created Son, creating like Yourself and One with You. My Self, which rules the universe, is but Your Will in perfect union with my own, which can but offer glad assent to Yours, that it may be extended to Itself.
Insights/comments:
- God is one and there is nothing that is other than God; nothing that is not God nor apart from His one Self. This is the unity of life at its core and the basis for the truth that my Self is ruler of the universe. Certainly we have little doubt accepting the fact that we are the rulers of our individual bodies, each of which is a universe of between 30 to 100 trillion cells. We are the rulers of the universe of our bodies just as our Higher Self—that part of us that always knows its true identity as one with God—is ruler of the universe as God created it. What this means, whether we acknowledge it or not, is that God's Will and our ours are one. Furthermore, it means that we are powerful beyond measure and to deny our power, is but to limit our full potential. Yet, even in this denial is proof that we are indeed powerful beyond measure, for we are powerful enough, even to choose to experience ourselves as powerless. Just as it takes a truly conscious actor to play the role of an unconscious drunkened character, so it takes a very powerful being indeed to play the role of being powerless. God loves us and supports us in whatever we wish to experience, knowing that He is always with us, and that we cannot ever diminish the perfection He created us to be.
I and my Creator are One. 
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