Wednesday, January 14, 2015

January 14th 2014  Lesson 301

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 301 - 310:

      9. What Is the Second Coming

    Christ's Second Coming, which is sure as God, is merely the correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity.  It is a part of the condition that restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is forever and forever true.  It is the invitation to God's Word to take illusion's place; the willingness to let forgiveness rest upon all things without exception and without reserve.

    It is the all-inclusive nature of Christ's Second Coming that permits it to embrace the world and hold you safe within its gentle advent, which encompasses all living things with you.  There is no end to the release the Second Coming brings, as God's creation must be limitless.  Forgiveness lights the Second Coming's way, because it shines on everything as one.  And thus is oneness recognized at last.

    The Second Coming ends the lessons that the Holy Spirit teaches, making way for the Last Judgment, in which learning ends in one last summary that will extend beyond itself, and reaches up to God.  The Second Coming is the time in which all minds are given to the hands of Christ, to be returned to spirit in the name of true creation and the Will of God.

    The Second Coming is the one event in time which time itself can not affect.  For every one who ever came to die, or yet will come or who is present now, is equally released from what he made.  In this equality is Christ restored as one Identity, in which the Sons of God acknowledge that they all are one.  And God the Father smiles upon His Son, His one creation and His only joy.

    Pray that the Second Coming will be soon, but do not rest with that.  It needs your eyes and ears and hands and feet.  It needs your voice.  And most of all it needs your willingness.  Let us rejoice that we can do God's Will, and join together in its holy light.  Behold, the Son of God is one in us, and we can reach our Father's Love through Him
      

    Lesson 301

    And God Himself shall wipe away all tears.

  • Invitation Prayer:  Father, unless I judge I cannot weep.  Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world.  This is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will.  Let me today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion.  Let me see Your world instead of mine.  And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone.  Father, I will not judge Your world today.
       
  • God's world is happy.  Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them.  We wept because we did not understand.  But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God's world today.


Insights/comments:
  • Acceptance is the opposite of judging; with acceptance comes peace for we are no longer trying to make things different from the way they are, because we understand that God created everything so all is perfectly well and wisely set.  To judge means that we are unhappy with the way things are and wish for things to be “better”, yet how could anything be better than what God created?  Understanding this makes us willing to release our judgments of the world and instead look into ourselves to seek the source of our unhappiness.  We cannot judge simply because we are not aware of all the variables that dictate the current state of things, and our limited understanding at best can lead only limited conclusions.  Acceptance by contrast allows us to conclude correctly that the perfection is already there and all we need do is recognize it.  Acceptance does not imply inaction, because we recognize that whatever we are inspired to do is also perfect in the scheme of things.  This is how, through understanding and acceptance, that we come to see the world as God created it.
I and my Creator are One.  *:)
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