A Course In Miracles from My Perspective

February 2nd 2014  Lesson 320

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 320

  My Father gives all power unto me.

• The Son of God is limitless.  There are no limits on his strength, his peace, his joy, nor any attribute his Father gave in his creation.  What he wills with his Creator and Redeemer must be done.  His holy will can never be denied, because his Father shines upon his mind, and lays before it all the strength and love in earth and Heaven.  I am he to whom all this is given.  I am he in whom the power of my Father's Will abides.
     
• Invitation Prayer:  Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world as well through me.  There is no limit on Your Will.  And so all power has been given to Your Son.

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Insights/comments:

• This is the perfection of God's creation, He gives all power unto His creation and because He is unified with His creation He has given all power to Himself.  This is the beauty of oneness, whatever is given is received by all, because all is the One and the One is the all.  This is also another way of understanding the idea that giving and receiving are one and the same.  What then can we, the holy children of God not accomplish?  Nothing can stand in the way of the will of the all-mighty power of God extended through His Children.  Our Father gives all power unto us, yet for us living in the world of illusions, limitation and lack, this is quite a challenge for us to accept.  But through knowledge and acceptance of our true identity we can begin to realize the truth as stated here and in the text:  Chap 21.II.2,3 
  • "I am responsible for what I see.  I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve.  And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for and receive as I have asked.  ... ."
    
    
  • "It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by the events outside of him.  It is impossible that happenings that come to him were not his choice.  His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident.  No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it, outside of which there is nothing.  ... ."

I and my Creator are One.