Lesson 170:

Lesson 170:

There is no cruelty in God and none in me…

The last couple of lessons have been about grace, which is our natural state as spirit, as it says in the very first chapter of the text: “Spirit is in a state of grace forever. Our reality is only spirit. Therefore we are in a state of grace forever”…

Today we have the chance to ‘choose once again’ the way that we would go. Fidelity to premise is the law of mind. No longer can we be faithful to fear: the god of defense, for at last we see our confusion and the error of the fear of God, in which we have our being. God~Love is the premise from which we came and remains still in truth. And it is by the grace of God we recognize our premise as our Self, today.

Having claimed grace as our own by inheritance and chosen once again, NOW, we are released, from not only all desire to attack, but also restored to our intrinsic desire that everyone, clearly like unto ourselves in God, join with us in the presence of mind which is Spirit, Now.

Here we have the truth of what we are. Here is the reason to defend, dispelled and fear’s premise exposed; seen as an instrument of the ego-belief-structure to keep us in forgetfulness and fear. Once seen without the insolent tool of defense, attack and judgment, as well as all otherness, are seen as simply meaningless… How could it be possible that what could never be, have meaning? It was simply another silly mechanism to perpetuate the false.

God, being Love extended Himself in/as Love, and all creation came to be. This timeless, changeless wholly loving being of God could but be what all creation is comprised of. Nothing else… Period. This is the premise of truth.

From and imagined premise, one tiny mad idea, spun out a universe so false, it could not possibly be considered anything but ridiculous by the mind that thinks naturally; the thoughts of creation, the thoughts we think with God. “We say God is… and then we cease to speak”…

The story told by the ego thought has separation at its core. It says, ‘what if? …this brings all unfeasible possibilities into belief’s range. Given but to a moment of doubt about who we are, the fear premise arose and all fear and defense against the nameless enemy ensues, making mindless the part of mind that believes the dream a serious affair. This is a state of consumption by the starved… Trusting no one, the caged animal awaits the enemy from without…

Yet, as each one seemingly waits, the gentle prompting of ‘reality; the quiet whisper of the Voice for truth, calls for our return… “You make what you defend against, and by your own defense against it is it real and inescapable. Lay down your arms, and only then do you perceive it false”….

As we begin to see that this ‘enemy’ is a battle waged within, see the war without and within, as mere ‘sight of hand’; we come to see that only the false battles, and only with itself.

When, in any holy instant, truth is recognized, we see no enemy, and the shadows where we thought he was within our mind, are lit by the One Light… The light of understanding fills the gaps where once defense had meaning… Grace now bestows content to the healing mind of the One Son of God… We have broached the obstacles to peace; and one by one grace has revealed our natural condition in God. Forgiveness is the natural restorative to right-mind premise: mind chooses, and graced with the light of truth, we see that the ‘incredible, unbearable ‘fear of God’, is truly “the incredible, unbearable light of being’… Form simply cannot hold up against it, our holiness; the state of God in us and we His, merely dissolves the silly thought within itself…

The practice of forgiveness on-going, as the Sonship returns to love. It is our one purpose here. To answer the call for love with love, we fulfill God’s plan for salvation. “Stuff” seemingly arises…but it is seen for what it is: ego’s mechanism for perpetuation… It is addictive in quality, compulsively, obsessively driving for mindlessness by way of time. Time-memory is the tool that gives meaning to familiarity of the past, reason to regret, defend and protect, to plan… And round and round the merry-o-round, of repetitious, false identification goes… But we no longer take a ticket and get on the ride… Our fears have been seen, if even for an instant, for the monster in the dark of the childish dream. And we are no longer children. We feel the presence of God, within and recognized as our being…The peace of God is shining in us now. Together we offer this prayer of truth:

“Father, we are like You. No cruelty abides in us, for there is none in You. Your peace is ours. And we bless the world with what we have received from You alone. We choose again, and make our choice for all our brothers, knowing they are one with us. We bring them Your salvation as we have received it now. And we give thanks for them who render us complete. In them we see Your glory, and in them we find our peace. Holy are we because Your Holiness has set us free. And we give thanks. Amen”.