December 15th 2014 Lesson 271
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 271 - 280:6. What Is the Christ?
Christ is God's Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. He is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.
Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours. He is the part in which God's Answer lies; where all decisions are already made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the body's eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.
Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ remain at peace within the Heaven of your holy mind. This is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ, to fade before His glory and reveal your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.
The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ's face?
And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find Christ's face and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.Lesson 271
Christ's is the vision I will use today.
- Each
day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon,
the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth
for me. Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to
listen to God's Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God's
creation. In Christ's sight, the world and God's creation meet, and as
they come together all perception disappears. His kindly sight redeems
the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live,
remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.
- Invitation Prayer: Father, Christ's vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today.
Insights/comments:
- It is said that seeing is believing, but in truth it is the opposite: believing is seeing! Let us apply this view to all our perceptions today. Let us see them for what they truly are, the perfect expressions of our unified Creator, who knows without a doubt what is best for us. He structured Himself within us as our Higher Self, the Christ mind within us that knows our true identity and reality, and can look past all the illusions that our ego-self takes to be real. We have within us two perspectives but only one is Real; only one brings lasting peace to our awareness; only one will lead to Heaven! Knowing this then, let us choose wisely and deny our ego perceptions, believing instead the Truth we know to be true. Even though this Truth does not seem apparent, through practice our belief will reveal it to our senses. Let us use Christ's vision again and again to look upon all things as perfectly holy expressions of God and be at peace with them, thus do we bless all that we perceive and remember our true identity as the holy sinless children of God.
I and my Creator are One. 
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