December 20th 2014 Lesson 276
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 - 280:1. 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 276
The Word of God is given me to speak.
- What is the Word of God? "My Son is pure and holy as Myself." And thus did God become the Father of the Son He loves, for thus was he created. This the Word His Son did not create with Him, because in this His Son was born. Let us accept His Fatherhood, and all is given us. Deny we were created in His Love and we deny our Self, to be unsure of Who we are, of Who our Father is, and for what purpose we have come. And yet, we need but to acknowledge Him Who gave His Word to us in our creation, to remember Him and so recall our Self.
- Invitation Prayer: Father, Your Word is mine. And it is this that I would speak to all my brothers, who are given me to cherish as my own, as I am loved and blessed and saved by You.
Insights/comments:
- Knowing who we really are is at the source of our happiness, for with it comes the knowledge of our purpose, the accomplishment of which leads to our fulfillment, which in turn leads to our happiness. But self knowledge comes only from knowing our lineage, our Creator, which is God, so our joy ultimately rests on our knowledge of God, and the quality of that knowledge will determine the quality of our happiness. This brings to light the current "knowledge" we have of God, which at best is contradictory and therefore confusing. For the large majority of us, God is: loving but punishing; caring but condemning, comforting but judging, etc., which directly reflect how we see ourselves and how we see others. Just from this observation we learn that being consistent in our understanding is important if we want to truly know God. Let us then discard any characteristic that contradicts with any or all of the following three: God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-present! Certainly we can all agree that at least one of these three must be a characteristic of God, and that not having at least one of these must immediately disqualify any entity claiming to be God. The prefix "all" means unlimited, i.e., without opposite, for that which encompasses everything can have no opposite. Now let us look at God's Word: "My Son is pure and holy as Myself." Certainly this must be true because children always inherit their essential qualities from their parents. And there is no room for opposing qualities like impurity and unholiness, for there cannot be anything outside of God, who is pure and holy unto Himself, so these must also be true for his Son.
I and my Creator are One. 
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