September 18, 2018
The appearance of our relationships is revealing in that they indicate whether we are attuned to reality or the illusion of separation. While we are aligned with the illusion of separation, our relationships are bargains agreed to for the purpose of limitation of some sort. Though they appear as a union, they are adjusted unions that have some sort of condition set upon them. One or both parties to an adjusted union will have some payment or sacrifice they must make for the union to continue. When one violated the bargain, the union ends or is renegotiated, often with a “payment” for one or both parties. How often have we experienced this kind of bartering in our relationships? We may use the excuse of “fairness” to rationalize these union negotiations. The result is that the union has a cost to us and we pay that cost to preserve the union and its purpose. However, the cost is really truth. When we ask Spirit – the Spirit within us – to heal our relationship, we accept the idea of making room for truth in our relationship. Our egoic relationships have the purpose of separation, where truth’s purpose is joining – Oneness. Whether we recognize it or not, we have faith in the purpose we have chosen. And where we place our faith our power is given.
It has been said that faith can move mountains. Our faith has the power to keep us limited, captive to our own beliefs, in chains and enslaved to our own convictions. Yet, our faith ca also free us from our self-imposed captivity, from our own self-enslavement and limitations. In Oneness we have all the power of our Source. Yet when we place our faith elsewhere, such as separation, we use that power to deny ourselves the awareness of our freedom and divine nature. What faith we give to separateness we take away from holiness. And faith is such that it cannot be divided between two opposite ideals. We choose where we put our faith and the world we see reflects that choice.
Faith and belief and vision are the means by which the goal of holiness is reached. Through them the Holy Spirit leads you to the real world, and away from all illusions where your faith was laid. This is Spirit’s direction; the only one Spirit ever sees. And when you wander, Spirit reminds you there is but one. Spirit’s faith and Its belief and vision are all for you. And when you have accepted them completely instead of yours, you will have need of them no longer. For faith and vision and belief are meaningful only before the state of certainty is reached. In Heaven they are unknown. Yet Heaven is reached through them. T-21.III.4:1-9
It is impossible that we don’t have faith, but we do choose where or in what ideal we place our faith. Faithlessness is not a lack of faith but faith in nothing or unreality. Faith in separation is simply faith in nothing – unreality, for we are One in reality. Faith given to unreality does not lack power, for by it we believe we are powerless. Thus, we are faithless to ourselves, but strong in faith in our illusions about ourselves. For faith, perception and belief we made, as means for losing certainty and finding separation.
The Holy Spirit has a use for all the means for sin by which you sought to find it. But as Spirit uses them they lead away from sin, because Spirit’s purpose lies in the opposite direction. Spirit sees the means you use, but not the purpose for which you made them. Spirit would not take them from you, for Spirit sees their value as a means for what It wills for you. You made perception that you might choose among your sisters and brothers, and seek for sin with them. The Holy Spirit sees perception as a means to teach you that the vision of a holy relationship is all you want to see. Then will you give your faith to holiness, desiring and believing in it because of your desire. T-21.III.6:1-7
What do you really want? The reawakening of our awareness of the wholeness, completeness, peace and love that we are in Oneness is the only thing we really want. We want to live in the awareness of the real world and live fully in our divine nature, seeing holiness in all that is around us even when it doesn’t seem to be there. We want the wisdom to look beyond the appearance of the world we see and see holiness there. Our Higher Holy Spirit Self, already within us, is there to guide us as we reset our faith in what we want. Make the choice to allow Spirit to guide our purpose and open our eyes and return to the awareness of the certainty of reality.
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