December 23rd 2014 Lesson 279
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 279
Creation's freedom promises my own.
- The end of dreams is promised me, because God's Son is not abandoned by His Love. Only in dreams is there a time when he appears to be in prison, and awaits a future freedom, if it be at all. Yet in reality his dreams are gone, with truth established in their place. And now is freedom his already. Should I wait in chains which have been severed for release, when God is offering me freedom now?
- Invitation Prayer: I will accept Your promises today, and give my faith to them. My Father loves the Son Whom He created as His Own. Would You withhold the gifts You gave to me?
Insights/comments:
- Our true Reality is that we are as God created us: perfect, Spirit, and free! The problem is that this is not apparent to us, and totally contradicts what is apparent to us through our senses, our customs and our “knowledge” of reality. We are blind to our true nature because we believe that we are unworthy children of God, and this belief in unworthiness keeps us in fear, for the One Whom we believe we have “sinned” against is all-powerful, and invincible. We cannot conquer Him, bargain for our freedom, nor hide, for His laws are immutable and He is omnipresent! We can however, and we do, make-believe, i.e., make ourselves believe: that we can live apart from Him who is omnipresent; that we are ignorant of who God is and who we are; that we can die; that we exist in “time” and “space;” that there is not enough of the things we need to live a good life, like: time, money, safety, security, acceptance, love, freedom, justice, etc. We have made ourselves believe that we must struggle and sacrifice to live and gain the purification, redemption and salvation we need. How can this be anything but make-believe? God by definition is the One who is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-present, which is just another way of saying that He is perfect, and from perfection only various expressions of perfection can come, each one perfect in itself. This is who we are, perfect expressions of perfection, so let us start being our true Self by stepping away from the make-believe world our eyes see, and trust instead the divinity that we truly are.
I and my Creator are One. 
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