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Give all to Truth  
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
"FORGIVENESS AND HEALING"
II. "Fantasy and Distorted Perception"

6 Be willing, then, to give all you have held outside the truth to Him who knows the truth and in Whom all is brought to truth. [Salvation from separation will be complete or will be not at all.] Be not concerned with anything except your willingness to have this be accomplished. He will accomplish it; not you. But forget not this: When you become disturbed and lose your peace of mind because another is attempting to solve his problems through fantasy, you are refusing to forgive yourself for just this same attempt. And you are holding both of you away from truth and from salvation. As you forgive him, you restore to truth what was denied by both of you. And you will see forgiveness where you have given it. 

DAILY LESSON

ACIM Lesson 186  

L e s s o n  186
Salvation of the world depends on me.
 


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   Here is the statement that will one day take
   all arrogance away from every mind.

   Here is a thought of true humility,

   which holds no function as your own but that

   which has been given you. It offers your

   acceptance of a part assigned to you,

   without insisting on another role.

   It does not judge your proper role. It but

   acknowledges the Will of God is done

   on earth as well as Heaven. It unites

   all wills on earth in Heaven's plan to save

   the world, restoring it to Heaven's peace.

 

   Let us not fight our function. We did not

   establish it. It is not our idea.

   The means are given us by which it will

   be perfectly accomplished. All that we

   are asked to do is to accept our parts

   in genuine humility, and not

   deny with self-deceiving arrogance

   that we are worthy. What is given us

   to do we have the strength to do. Our minds

   are suited perfectly to take our parts,

   assigned to us by One Who knows us well.

 

   Today's idea may seem quite sobering

   until you see its meaning. All it says

   is that your Father still remembers you,

   and offers you the perfect trust He holds

   in you who are His Son. It does not ask

   that you be different in any way

   from what you are. What could humility

   request but this? And what could arrogance

   deny but this? Today we will not shrink

   from our assignment on the specious grounds

   that modesty is outraged. It is pride

   that would deny the Call of God Himself.

 

   All false humility we lay aside

   today, that we may listen to His Voice

   reveal to us what He would have us do.

   We will not doubt our adequacy for

   the function He will offer us. We will

   be certain only that He knows our strength,

   our wisdom and our holiness. And if

   He deems us worthy, so we are. It is

   but arrogance that judges otherwise.

 

   There is one way, and only one, to be

   released from the imprisonment your plan

   to prove the false is true has brought to you.

   Accept the plan you did not make instead.

   Judge not your value to it. If God's Voice

   assures you that salvation needs your part,

   and that the whole depends on you, be sure

   that it is so. The arrogant must cling

   to words, afraid to go beyond them to

   experience which might affront their stance.

   Yet are the humble free to hear the Voice

   Which tells them what they are and what to do.

 

   Arrogance makes an image of yourself

   which is not real. It is this image which

   quails and retreats in terror as the Voice

   for God assures you that you have the strength,

   the wisdom and the holiness to go

   beyond all images. You are not weak,

   as is the image of yourself. You are

   not ignorant and helpless. Sin can not

   tarnish the truth in you, and misery

   can come not near the holy home of God.

 

   All this the Voice for God relates to you.

   And as He speaks the image trembles and

   seeks to attack the threat it does not know,

   sensing its basis crumble. Let it go.

   Salvation of the world depends on you,

   and not upon this little pile of dust.

   What can it tell the holy Son of God?

   Why need he be concerned with it at all?

 

   And so we find our peace. We will accept

   the function God has given us, for all

   illusions rest upon the weird belief

   that we can make another for ourselves.

   Our self-made roles are shifting, and they seem

   to change from mourner to ecstatic bliss

   of loved and loving. We can laugh or weep,

   and greet the day with welcome or with tears.

   Our very being seems to change as we

   experience a thousand shifts in mood,

   and our emotions raise us high indeed

   or dash us to the ground in hopelessness.

 

   Is this the Son of God? Could He create

   such instability and call it Son?

   He Who is changeless shares His attributes

   with His creation. All the images

   His Son appears to make have no effect

   on what he is. They blow across his mind

   like wind swept leaves that form a patterning

   an instant, break apart to group again,

   and scamper off. Or like mirages seen

   above a desert, rising from the dust.

 

   These unsubstantial images will go

   and leave your mind unclouded and serene

   when you accept the function given you.

   The images you make give rise to but

   conflicting goals, impermanent and vague,

   uncertain and ambiguous. Who could

   be constant in his efforts, or direct

   his energies and concentrated drive

   toward goals like these? The functions that the world

   esteems are so uncertain that they change

   ten times an hour at their most secure.

   What hope of gain can rest on goals like this?

 

   In lovely contrast, certain as the sun's

   return each morning to dispel the night,

   your truly given function stands out clear

   and wholly unambiguous. There is

   no doubt of its validity. It comes

   from One Who knows no error. And His Voice

   is certain in Its messages. They will

   not change nor be in conflict. All of them

   point to one goal, and one you can attain.

   Your plan may be impossible, but God's

   can never fail because He is its Source.

 

   Do as His Voice directs. And if It asks

   a thing of you that seems impossible,

   remember Who it is that asks, and who

   would make denial. Then consider this;

   which is more likely to be right? The Voice

   that speaks for the Creator of all things,

   Who knows all things exactly as they are,

   or a distorted image of yourself,

   confused, bewildered, inconsistent and

   unsure of everything? Let not its voice

   direct you. Hear instead a certain Voice

   Which tells you of a function given you

   by your Creator, Who remembers you

   and urges that you now remember Him.

 

   His gentle Voice is calling from the known

   to the unknowing. He would comfort you

   although He knows no sorrow. He would make

   a restitution though He is complete;

   a gift to you, although He knows that you

   have everything already. He has Thoughts

   that answer every need His Son perceives,

   although He sees them not. For Love must give,

   and what is given in Its Name takes on

   the form most useful in a world of form.

 

   These are the forms which never can deceive,

   although they come from Formlessness Itself.

   Forgiveness is an earthly form of love

   which as it is in Heaven has no form.

   Yet what is needed here is given here

   as it is needed. In this form you can

   fulfill your function even here, although

   what love will mean to you when formlessness

   has been restored to you is greater still.

   Salvation of the world depends on you

   who can forgive. Such is your function here.

 

   Original Handscript ~ May 28, 1070   

 

    

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PART I
INTRODUCTION to LESSONS 181-120 

Introduction to Lessons 181-200  
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1 Our next few lessons make a special point of firming up your willingness to make your weak commitment strong, your scattered goals blend into one intent. You are not asked for total dedication all the time, as yet. But you are asked to practice now in order to attain the sense of peace such unified commitment will bestow, if only intermittently. It is experiencing this which makes it sure that you will give your total willingness to following the way the course sets forth.

2 Our lessons now are geared specifically to widening horizons and direct approaches to the special blocks which keep your vision narrow and too limited to let you see the value of our goal. We are attempting now to lift these blocks, however briefly. Words alone can not convey the sense of liberation which their lifting brings. But the experience of freedom and of peace that comes as you give up your tight control of what you see speaks for itself. Your motivation will be so intensified that words become of little consequence. You will be sure of what you want and what is valueless.

3 And so we start our journey beyond words by concentrating first on what impedes our progress still. Experience of what exists beyond defensiveness remains beyond achievement while it is denied. It may be there, but you cannot accept its presence. So we now attempt to go past all defenses for a little while each day. No more than this is asked because no more than this is needed. It will be enough to guarantee the rest will come.

   ~ Original Handscript of ACIM

ACIM Edmonton - Sarah's Reflections 

ACIM Edmonton, CA

Lesson 186
Salvation of the world depends on me. 

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Sarah's Commentary:

Clearly to our minds, the idea that "salvation of the world depends on me" sounds more than a little arrogant. Yet Jesus says it's not a statement of arrogance at all. In fact, acceptance of this thought "will one day take all arrogance away from every mind." (W.186.1.1) Why? It is because acceptance of this statement undoes the thought of separation. The belief that we have separated from God is a statement of arrogance, because now we believe that we have made ourselves and that our reality is that of a body living in the world. When we accept with humility that perhaps we have been wrong about all of this, then we are willing to learn, through our special relationships, our true reality. We do that by undoing all the specialness in these relationships through forgiveness so that we can know our holiness. It is about being willing to look honestly at our roles and concepts about who we think we are and bring them to the light of truth. Each mind that is healed saves the world, because God's Son is one and the world is saved as the separation that gave rise to it is undone.

We all share the same function of forgiveness, but the forms will be different for each of us in the world with people and events that are part of our script to forgive. However the content of forgiveness in every situation is the same for all of us. We have identified with the ego, which can now be released through forgiveness. The ego seems powerful to us and we think that it is almost impossible to set it aside. Yet Jesus tells us that the "means are given us by which it (our function of forgiveness) will be perfectly accomplished." (2.4) Thus while we think that the challenge is too big for us, Jesus assures us that we can learn what he is teaching us. It is our arrogance that prevents us from accepting this belief. Each of us that heals our minds through forgiveness heals the Sonship because there is just one mind.

We resist our function, (2.1) Why? It is because, "We did not establish it. It is not our idea." (2.2-3) Clearly we find it an affront to who we think we are to surrender all of this to God in "genuine humility." (2.5) To deny that we are worthy of undertaking what has been assigned to us is arrogance. It is not up to us to be the judge of that. This lesson affirms that the truth is already fully present in our minds and we are worthy because of who we are as God's Son. Thus, "Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well." (2.7) Our arrogance is to deny this by thinking we are too small to undertake what is asked of us, that we are unworthy of our task, or alternatively that the ego is too enormous and too difficult to set aside, or that the Course is too difficult to learn. In fact, we may have a lot of fear around our function, which is about undoing the mistaken choice for the ego. The light of Christ shines in us now. Through forgiveness we learn that this is true, and then the world is saved, because there is no world. When the mind accepts the truth through forgiveness, the world disappears because we then see that there is no world. The world was established through separation, and when that separation is undone, through release of the ego thought system, then the world is undone.

Now there is work to be done while we think we are here. It is about releasing our plans and accepting the plan that we did not make. Our plans all involve maintaining the ego by seeing guilt and sin in the world and seeing ourselves as innocent victims. Now we are asked to look at this and see that what it brings us is pain. Jesus asks us to look honestly at our lives and how much of what we experience on our own does not fulfill us. Jesus reminds us we have another choice, which is to accept the Correction (Atonement) that is already in our minds. We do this by bringing our own thoughts and perspectives for forgiveness. This requires that we look at what we have chosen, without judgment, and bring it to the Holy Spirit so that it can be released. In the experience of the holy instant, the content of God's love is expressed in us.

We all struggle with feelings of unworthiness, but we are assured, again and again, of who we are. He is not asking too much of us. When I am relying on my own perceptions, then I don't feel up to what I have been guided to do whether in writing these Course commentaries, facilitating the Course groups or standing in my truth. I find myself fearful of judgment and sometimes looking for a way not to undertake these and other tasks that call to me. Inadequacy shows up in numerous ways. I compare myself as not as brilliant, not as enlightened, not as insightful as others. Clearly it is the ego keeping me in fear of my function. It is not about denying fear that comes up but being willing to, "Accept the plan you did not make." (5.2) Jesus tells us that this is the only way that we can be released from imprisonment. (5.1) He is definitive about that and makes it clear that the way he is showing us is the only way.

Our plan miscreated a world where we project our sin and guilt on others and make them responsible for our pain, but now this can all be undone when we look without judgment on what we have made and choose to take responsibility for our decisions. We now see that the choice is always in front of us and that we can choose again. There is indeed a better way. It requires that we surrender our way in humility, recognizing that we have been wrong about everything we think and believe. It is to step into our greatness by fully undertaking our function. Yes, fear will arise when we don't feel up to our function and we feel that we are not what Jesus assures us that we are. Jesus urges us not to take such thoughts seriously. Yes, doubts will come up and feelings of inadequacy, yet we can dismiss such foolish thoughts. "We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us." (4.2)

We each have a function in form that is based on our strengths and skills and talents, but again the content is the same. It is only forgiveness. It is to recognize that we have a teacher that is outside of the dream. What we are given to do in this world "takes on the form most useful in a world of form." (13.5) Whatever we are called to do in the world, the function we all share is that of forgiveness. "Forgiveness is an earthly form of love, which as it is in Heaven has no form. Yet what is needed here is given here as it is needed. In this form you can fulfill your function even here, although what love will mean to you when formlessness has been restored to you is greater still." (14.2-4) So against the backdrop of our special and unique function, based on our skills and abilities, is forgiveness. Forgiveness is what takes us beyond the words to experience. It is about the undoing of the plan that we established which is to make others responsible for our condition. "Accept the plan you did not make instead." (5.2)

Our task then is to give up our false humility, which blocks the truth of who we are, and that's it! Yet to us it is not so simple, as we are invested in our specialness. "All false humility we lay aside today, that we may listen to God's Voice reveal to us what He would have us do." (4.1) When we listen to our own voice, we feel inadequate and unworthy, and listen to the voice of the ego, telling us to hold grievances, attack others, serve our special needs, make others responsible for our pain, see ourselves as the innocent victim of what others do to and thus we don't hear the Voice for God.

We have tried to prove that "the false is true," (5.1) meaning that the truth is what we believe about who we are as a body, living in a real and solid world. We love it because we made it. "Accept the plan you did not make instead." (5.2) The question is, do we continue to put all of our belief in the body and personality, believing that we are in control of our lives, or do we open to a new experience of truth and transcendence by letting go of the thoughts, the roles, the self concepts that we have invested in as the truth? Jesus tells us that we do have the strength, we are not weak and helpless, yet no matter what we think about ourselves, nothing can change the truth. Our Self is holy, and misery can't touch this holy home where we abide. we won't know this until the work of undoing the false is complete, but it is a process. Forgiveness does not require us to achieve healing any faster than we are prepared to go, and if we choose to delay, it is not a sin.

To accept the image of who we think we are is to accept instability, which consists of "Our self-made roles are shifting, and they seem to change from mourner to ecstatic bliss of love and loving. We can laugh or weep, and greet the day with welcome or with tears. Our very being seems to change as we experience a thousand shifts in mood, and our emotions raise us high indeed, or dash us to the ground in hopelessness." (8.3-5) That is the condition of the image we have made and identify with. Jesus assures us that this instability is not who we are. We are indeed changeless. We are consistently loved and loving. How can that be when I see myself being other than that much of the time? Well, we are assured that since this world is just a dream, nothing we've done has had any real effects on anyone. These things "blow across his mind like windswept leaves that form a patterning an instant, break apart to group again, and scamper off. Or like mirages seen above a desert, rising from the dust." (9.5-6) When we awaken from the dream, these images will seem no more real than when we awaken from our night time dreams that seem so real when we are dreaming them.

Letting go of the image we have made allows the experience of truth to rush in. There is no room for this in the "I know" mind. We need to clear the slate for the Holy Spirit. The slate is now so crowded with thoughts and occupied with plans that there is no place for silence. It is only in the silence that truth can enter. There is still attraction to misery, shame, secrets, dramas of all kinds, in our lives. There is a reward for the ego that it gets from its self-inflicted pain, for it reinforces our view of the world as victims. We would give it all up if there was no juice in our story, no victory for the conqueror or the victim. Does such a thought arouse anger and defensiveness? This lesson says, "And as He speaks, the image trembles and seeks to attack the threat it does not know, sensing its basis crumble." (7.2) Yes, now we fear that if we let it go, we will be left in shambles. The part of the mind that identifies with the ego senses the threat and is terrified. Our thousand shifting moods tell us how unstable our foundation really is. This image of ourselves that we identify with is a pile of dust that knows nothing of the Son of God.  When we say we can't undertake the function we have been given, we are speaking from the image, because the truth is that we are perfectly suited to undertake the function we have been given. We are called to follow our prompts, which are inviting us to step into our function fully. When we do undertake it, our true Self breaks through the image and shows us, at least in glimpses, our true nature, and thus we learn to question this image.

We are being drawn to the appeal of exchanging our conflicting uncertain, ambiguous and changing goals for a new and fresh experience of constancy and certainty. In our ego identity, there is no constancy. We shift from one thing to another and our lives are filled with ambiguity, uncertainty, impermanence and vagueness. There is nothing truly appealing about that. Not only that, Jesus says, "The functions which the world esteems are so uncertain that they change ten times an hour at their most secure." (10.4) Can you see this in your own life, as you go from one thing to another, checking out the computer, planning dinner, watering the plants, paying bills, washing the car, and undertaking the business of the day? Ten times an hour he considers secure! Chances are, if we monitored our activity in an hour, we are perhaps changing our functions thirty times an hour! "What hope of gain can rest on goals like this?" (10.5) When we recognize that we have been wrong and our teacher is right, we can accept his plan and function which reflects the perfect unity of the Self that we are.

God gives us a purpose. Our lives are not to be just a list of shifting playful or work-focused activities that the world esteems. It does sound like we are being called to purpose or a purpose-driven life. What He assigns to us "stands out clear and wholly unambiguous," (11.1) unlike our own shifting functions. Jesus assures us, we can attain the function given us, and so we are literally given a command: "Do as God's Voice directs. And if It asks a thing of you which seems impossible, remember Who it is That asks, and who would make denial." (12.1-2). Who is likely to be right? God or me? What does this confused image of me really know? Can it ever get it all right? Can it ever know everything to ensure total success when it is indeed bewildered, inconsistent and always unsure? (12.4) We have tried to take the power unto ourselves and claim ourselves to be God, manifesting what we think we want, but can this image manifest anything coming from this bewildered, uncertain state? Does it know what will bring it happiness? Better that we should attend to this lesson starting with being willing to admit we don't know and allowing ourselves to trust that the One Who Knows wants to offer us our function and provide the means to achieve it assuring us we can't fail.

Our particular specific relationships in the world have been given us as our curriculum so that we can be restored to Heaven. As we practice forgiveness, we are surrendering our way of seeing and understanding. We demonstrate a willingness to be taught. As the image is being undone, we experience fear and feelings of inadequacy, but we rely, not on our own adequacy. "It comes from One Who knows no error, and His Voice is certain of Its messages. They will not change, nor be in conflict. All of them point to one goal, and one you can attain." (11.3-5) There can be no failure with God. Thus our single-minded purpose is what unifies our goals. We are called now to listen and to, "Do as God's Voice directs." (12.1) We will be uncertain at times what that is and wonder if we are up to what we are being called to, but Jesus asks us to remember Who it is that asks and also to remember that it is only our own fear that would make denial. (12.1-2)

 

Love and blessings, Sarah 

huemmert@shaw.ca

 

Quotes in this article are from Foundation for Inner Peace edition; To locate the same quotes in the 'Original Edition', use this link:  http://www.jcim.net/acim_us/Acim.php    

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Chapter Seventeen

Forgiveness and Healing

I. Introduction               

17:1 The betrayal of the Son of God lies only in illusions, and all his "sins" are but his own imagining. His reality is forever sinless. He need not be forgiven, but awakened. In his dreams he has betrayed himself, his brothers, and his God. Yet what is done in dreams has not been really done. It is impossible to convince the dreamer that this is so, for dreams are what they are because of their illusion of reality. Only in waking is the full release from them, for only then does it become perfectly apparent that they had no effect on reality at all and did not change it. Fantasies change reality. That is their purpose. They cannot do so in reality, but they can do so in the mind that would have reality different.

 

2 It is, then, only your wish to change reality that is fearful because by your wish you think you have accomplished what you wish. This strange position in a sense acknowledges your power. Yet by distorting it and devoting it to "evil," it also makes it unreal. You cannot be faithful to two masters who ask of you conflicting things. What you use in fantasy you deny to truth. Yet what you give to truth to use for you is safe from fantasy.

 

II. Fantasy and Distorted Perception

3 When you maintain that there must be order of difficulty in miracles, all you mean is that there are some things you would withhold from truth. You believe that truth cannot deal with them only because you would keep them from truth. Very simply, your lack of faith in the power that heals all pain arises from your wish to retain some aspects of reality for fantasy. If you but realized what this must do to your appreciation of the whole! What you reserve unto yourself, you take away from Him Who would release you. Unless you give it back, it is inevitable that your perspective on reality be warped and uncorrected.

 

4 As long as you would have it so, so long will the illusion of order of difficulty in miracles remain with you. For you have established this order in reality by giving some of it to one teacher and some to another. And so you learn to deal with part of truth in one way and in another way the other part. To fragment truth is to destroy it by rendering it meaningless. Orders of reality is a perspective without understanding, a frame of reference for reality to which it cannot really be compared at all.

 

5 Think you that you can bring truth to fantasy and learn what truth means from the perspective of illusions? Truth has no meaning in illusion. The frame of reference for its meaning must be itself. When you try to bring truth to illusions, you are trying to make illusions real and keep them by justifying your belief in them. But to give illusions to truth is to enable truth to teach that the illusions are unreal and thus enable you to escape from them. Reserve not one idea aside from truth, or you establish orders of reality which must imprison you. There is no order in reality because everything there is true.

 

6 Be willing, then, to give all you have held outside the truth to Him who knows the truth and in Whom all is brought to truth. [Salvation from separation will be complete or will be not at all.] Be not concerned with anything except your willingness to have this be accomplished. He will accomplish it; not you. But forget not this: When you become disturbed and lose your peace of mind because another is attempting to solve his problems through fantasy, you are refusing to forgive yourself for just this same attempt. And you are holding both of you away from truth and from salvation. As you forgive him, you restore to truth what was denied by both of you. And you will see forgiveness where you have given it.

 

III. The Forgiven World

7 Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? In no fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely. Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness. And nothing will you value like unto this nor hold so dear. Nothing that you remember that made your heart seem to sing with joy has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. For you will see the Son of God. You will behold the beauty which the Holy Spirit loves to look upon and which He thanks the Father for. He was created to see this for you until you learn to see it for yourself. And all His teaching leads to seeing it and giving thanks with Him.

 

8 This loveliness is not a fantasy. It is the real world, bright and clean and new with everything sparkling under the open sun. Nothing is hidden here, for everything has been forgiven, and there are no fantasies to hide the truth. The bridge between that world and this is so little and so easy to cross that you could not believe it is the meeting place of worlds so different. Yet this little bridge is the strongest thing that touches on this world at all. This little step, so small it has escaped your notice, is a stride through time into eternity and beyond all ugliness into beauty that will enchant you and will never cease to cause you wonderment at its perfection.

 

9 This step, the smallest ever taken by anything, is still the greatest accomplishment of all in God's plan of Atonement. All else is learned, but this is given, complete and wholly perfect. No one but Him Who planned salvation could complete it thus. The real world, in its loveliness, you learn to reach. Fantasies are all undone, and no one and nothing remains still bound by them, and by your own forgiveness, you are free to see. Yet what you see is only what you have made, with the blessing of your forgiveness on it. And with this final blessing of God's Son upon himself, the real perception, born of the new perspective he has learned, has served its purpose.

 

10 The stars will disappear in light, and the sun which opened up the world to beauty will vanish. Perception will be meaningless when it has been perfected, for everything that has been used for learning will have no function. Nothing will ever change; no shifts nor shadings, no differences, no variations which made perception possible will occur. The perception of the real world will be so short that you will barely have time to thank God for it. For God will take the last step swiftly when you have reached the real world and have been made ready for Him.

 

11 The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. The Great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. In the light of the real reason which He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty which gentleness could release.

 

12 All this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally transforms vision and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos and removing all illusions which had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past. The smallest leaf becomes a thing of wonder and a blade of grass a sign of God's perfection. From the forgiven world, the Son of God is lifted easily into his home. And there he knows that he has always rested there in peace. Even salvation will become a dream and vanish from his mind. For salvation is the end of dreams and with the closing of the dream will have no meaning. Who awake in Heaven could dream that there could ever be need of salvation?

 

13 How much do you want salvation? It will give you the real world, trembling with readiness to be given you. The eagerness of the Holy Spirit to give you this is so intense He would not wait, although He waits in patience. Meet His patience with your impatience at delay in meeting Him. Go out in gladness to meet with your Redeemer and walk with him in trust out of this world and into the real world of beauty and forgiveness.

 

 

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