October 29, 2019
The Course asks us again and again what we believe about who we are. The Course also asks us if we are happy with the world we are living in. What if we could make a choice that would change our world dramatically for the better? Would this be a form of salvation? Most of us feel like we have few choices, that we are limited by the world we think we see. We have resigned ourselves to do the best with what we’ve been dealt. It doesn’t even occur to us we may have another choice. We have become so accustomed to accepting the idea that we must conform to the world we see that we’ve given up any hope of something better in thus world. How could it be that we are created to live in a world that seems so insane and can batter us about with its trials? We end up in such a dilemma about what is real and what is not real.
Let us go back to what we said before, and think of it more carefully. It must be so that either God is mad, or is this world a place of madness. Not one Thought of God’s makes any sense at all within this world. And nothing that the world believes as true has any meaning in God’s Mind at all. What makes no sense and has no meaning is insanity. And what is madness cannot be the truth. If one belief so deeply valued here were true, then every Thought God ever had is an illusion. And if but one Thought of God’s is true, then all beliefs the world gives any meaning to are false, and make no sense at all. This is the choice you make. Do not attempt to see it differently, nor twist it into something it is not. For only this decision can you make. The rest is up to God, and not to you. T-25.VII.3:1-12
Perhaps what we seek is some salvation from this dilemma. Yet we haven’t a clue where to begin. There is a way. God has not left us alone to work this out. We made a choice to believe something about ourselves and the world. So, we can make another choice. And we need not do it alone. God has provided us with an inner Spirit to guide us, Perhaps we may not have realized we even had a Higher Holy Spirit within us in our creation. This inner guide remains connected with the holy no matter what we may have believed or thought we believed. This Spirit within holds in loving memory the knowing we may have disregarded waiting for us to realize we want to reconnect with something better. This inner Spirit is ready and willing to guide us from a world of madness to a world of holiness, peace and love.
The Holy Spirit has the power to change the whole foundation of the world you see to something else; a basis not insane, on which a sane perception can be based, another world perceived. And one in which nothing is contradicted that would lead the One Child of God to sanity and joy. Nothing attests to death and cruelty; to separation and to differences. For here is everything perceived as one, and no one loses that each one may gain. T-25.VII.5:1-4
How do we evaluate the world we see? It seems so daunting. Yet, continuing believing the world is the way we have perceived it is also daunting. Contained in the paragraph above is the test. We can put everything we think is true to this test. Can this be perceived as one, joined together? Does no one lose but rather everyone gain? Apply these questions to what you believe and if it passes this test, it is real and true. If not, it is mistaken. If it is mistaken, let it go rather than trying to correct it. Allow the Higher Spirit Self within you to guide your mind in the changing of your belief. As we learn to value Oneness, sharing and loving, freeing and uplifting one another, we find the love and peace we all share in Oneness. As we reconnect with Oneness, we find the world is transformed. We begin to see the world with a different understanding. The real world is the rock of our salvation. It is changeless. It is a world that can be relied on. We find our awareness of it by seeking the guidance of Spirit within.
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