March 9th 2014 Lesson 355
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 351 - 360:14. What Am I?
I am God's Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. I am the holy home of God Himself. I am the Heaven where His Love resides. I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own.
Our use for words is almost over now. Yet in the final days of this one year we gave to God together, you and I, we found a single purpose that we shared. And thus you joined with me, so what I am are you as well. The truth of what we are is not for words to speak of nor describe. Yet we can realize our function here, and words can speak of this and teach it, too, if we exemplify the words in us.
We are the bringers of salvation. We accept our part as saviors of the world, which through our joint forgiveness is redeemed. And this, our gift, is therefore given us. We look on everyone as brother, and perceive all things as kindly and as good. We do not seek a function that is past the gate of Heaven. Knowledge will return when we have done our part. We are concerned only with giving welcome to the truth.
Ours are the eyes through which Christ's vision sees a world redeemed from every thought of sin. Ours are the ears that hear the Voice for God proclaim the world as sinless. Ours the minds that join together as we bless the world. And from the oneness that we have attained we call to all our brothers, asking them to share our peace and consummate our joy.
We are the holy messengers of God who speak for Him, and carrying His Word to everyone whom He has sent to us, we learn that it is written on our hearts. And thus our minds are changed about the aim for which we came, and which we seek to serve. We bring glad tidings to the Son of God, who thought he suffered. Now is he redeemed. And as he sees the gate of Heaven stand open before him, he will enter in and disappear into the Heart of God.
Lesson 355
There is no end to all the peace and joy,
And all the miracles that I will give,
When I accept God's Word. Why not today.- Invitation Prayer: Why should I wait, my Father, for the joy You promised me? For You will keep Your Word You gave Your Son in exile. I am sure my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand to find it. Even now my fingers touch it. It is very close. I need not wait an instant more to be at peace forever. It is You I choose, and my Identity along with You. Your Son would be Himself, and know You as his Father and Creator, and his Love.
Insights/comments:
- What do we have to do to know the peace and joy of God? Only to accept the truth that we are His children and are therefore exactly like Him—perfect, Spirit, free, and unlike what our senses and the world have convinced us that we are—imperfect, mortal, “sinful”. What God created is eternal and perfect. We cannot change what God created us to be, but we can choose to deny it. This denial is based on our forgetfulness of God's true nature, and of our oneness with Him. Having forgotten, we adapted a false identity based on our senses, separate from and foreign to what God created, and having adopted this false identity, we believed in it. If we would but examine the “logic” we use to justify our false identity, we will immediately realize that it is baseless, for it is impossible to avoid, far less thwart the will of the All-mighty. God knows our true perfect nature for He created us. He knows all that is in our minds and hearts, all that we are capable of, and our need for salvation. So it should not surprise us that God’s plan for out salvation— the atonement, guarantees the remembrance of our true identity, and needs only our acceptance for its fulfillment. Let us this day, leave aside our false beliefs, and to the best of our ability accept the miracle of His Gift to us, His Word that we are His only begotten son in whom He is well pleased..
I and my Creator are One. 
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