January 30th 2014 Lesson 317
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 311 - 320:10. What Is the Last Judgment
Christ's Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: to hear the Voice for God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is true has never changed. And this the judgment is in which perception ends. At first you see a world that has accepted this as true, projected from a now corrected mind. And with this holy sight, perception gives a silent blessing and then disappears, its goal accomplished and its mission done.
The final judgment on the world contains no condemnation. For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposeless. Without a cause, and now without a function in Christ's sight, it merely slips away to nothingness. There it was born, and there it ends as well. And all the figures in the dream in which the world began go with it. Bodies now are useless, and will therefore fade away, because the Son of God is limitless.
You who believed that God's Last Judgment would condemn the world to hell along with you, accept this holy truth: God's Judgment is the gift of the Correction He bestowed on all your errors, freeing you from them, and all effects they ever seemed to have. To fear God's saving grace is but to fear complete release from suffering, return to peace, security and happiness, and union with your own Identity.
God's Final Judgment is as merciful as every step in His appointed plan to bless His Son, and call him to return to the eternal peace He shares with him. Be not afraid of love. For it alone can heal all sorrow, wipe away all tears, and gently waken from his dream of pain the Son whom God acknowledges as His. Be not afraid of this. Salvation asks you give it welcome. And the world awaits your glad acceptance, which will set it free.
This is God's Final Judgment: "You are still My holy Son, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore awaken and return to Me. I am your Father and you are My Son."
Lesson 317
I follow in the the way appointed me.
- I have a special place to fill, a role for me alone. Salvation waits until I take this part as what I choose to do. Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny. But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father's plan appointed me to go then will I recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.
- Invitation Prayer: Father, your way is what I choose today. Where it would lead me do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. Your way is certain and the end secure. The memory of You awaits me there. And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms.
Insights/comments:
- God is perfect and incapable of making mistakes, so all that He has set in place is perfectly well and wisely set. He knows us and all that we are capable of because He created us, so His plan for us is guaranteed to succeed. We who are His children have the freedom to choose when we will walk the path He determined we must walk to fulfill His plan for our salvation. But while we wait, we suffer the pain of not being aware of His eternal Love that supports us even in our fear to turn to Him. Yet as our understanding of Him grows and we come to realize His Love for us and the wisdom of His way, we willingly turn to Him for our salvation. We lost our memory of God's Loving nature and substituted our own fearful ideas of vengeance and retribution, failing to consider that the all knowing, all powerful Lord of creation who is everything, has no need for such ideas. God cannot but be merciful for who but Himself is there for Him to be merciful to. He is One and complete in His oneness, which includes us His Children. His plan for our salvation guarantees that all "sins" we imagine ourselves to have committed will be dismissed by Him, for He knows us as He created us to be, not as we conceive ourselves to be. Let us choose today to turn to Him for our salvation, our peace, and our happiness.
I and my Creator are One. 
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