April 7, 2020
Lesson 98
I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation. ACIM W.pI.98
Do we have a part in God’s plan for salvation? The word “salvation” can sometimes trigger some old thoughts. Do I really need to be saved? Am I that damaged? Those old thoughts rear their ugly heads from time to time. The Course gives a different way to look at salvation. There is nothing in reality we need salvation from. Yet, we are attached to a mistaken idea about ourselves (and each other) that does need changing. God’s plan for salvation is a plan to help us return to the awareness of who we really are. To return to being the whole, complete, loving and peaceful state that we really are. We have done nothing more than block our own awareness of our holiness and wholeness by believing we are something different – something less than. This “something different” is the belief we are separate from God and each other – that we are not connected. Are we willing to dedicate ourselves to something new and certain?
Today is a day of special dedication. We take a stand on but one side today. We side with truth and let illusions go. We will not vacillate between the two, but take a firm position with the One. We dedicate ourselves to truth today, and to salvation as God planned it be. We will not argue it is something else. We will not seek for it where it is not. In gladness we accept it as it is, and take the part assigned to us by God. W-pI.98.1:1-8
How happy to be certain! All our doubts we lay aside today, and take our stand with certainty of purpose, and with thanks that doubt is gone and surety has come. We have a mighty purpose to fulfill, and have been given everything we need with which to reach the goal. Not one mistake stands in our way. For we have been absolved from errors. All our sins are washed away by realizing they were but mistakes. W-pI.98.2:1-6
God’s plan for salvation is simply the process of changing our minds. It is a process of releasing the thoughts about ourselves that are mistaken and accepting the truth about who we really are. Th Course teaches us we are One with our Source and that we can never be anything else. We are created incorruptible. How could we be anything but the perfect being we are created? The thoughts we identified with once we believed we were separate are changeable. These thoughts are made by our egoic thought system which is invested in our belief in separation – our belief in illusion. Spirit dwells within us waiting for us to allow It to show us a different way – a different perception of ourselves.
They [the guiltless – our brothers and sisters] will be with us; all who took the stand we take today will gladly offer us all that they learned and every gain they made. Those still uncertain, too, will join with us, and, borrowing our certainty, will make it stronger still. While those as yet unborn will hear the call we heard, and answer it when they have come to make their choice again. We do not choose but for ourselves today. W-pI.98.4:1-4
Once you are willing, set aside all earthly tasks, all little thoughts and limited ideas, and spend a happy time again with the One, your Creator. Reaffirm your decision once more that you accept your part in God’s plan for salvation. This choice is not just God’s, for we made this choice with our Creator. We – in Oneness – made this choice when we co-created this plan of salvation the instant we chose to think we were separate. Return to the awareness of who you really are, for this is truly who you really are. Return home today, for it is your destiny.
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