December 15, 2020
Lesson 351 –
My sinless friend is my guide to peace.
My sinful friend is my guide to pain.
And which I choose to see I will behold.
What do I choose to see in those around me? This may seem backwards to some. We may not even realize we have a choice in how we see others. This choice is a revelation. My choice to see another as either sinful or sinless determines how I see the world. Just think about this for a minute. We each have the power to see each other and the world as we choose. Will we choose sinlessness or sinfulness? The real world is sinless. That is how it is created and how it remains. Yet, we often choose to see it as sinful. What if we were willing to see the world differently? Perhaps we can gather enough courage and curiosity to entertain the possibility that this may be true.
The truth is we are each a creation of Source, God, or Oneness. We are that Oneness. We are holy, we are complete, and we are whole. Nothing can change or corrupt that about us. Our Higher Holy Spirit, forever within us, holds the remembrance of that sinlessness for us. We may have chosen another path for a time, but our wholeness is never lost. Even when we stray rom the awareness of who we really are, our sinlessness is held within us for when we choose to change our mind about who we are and reconnect with our true being. Reconnecting with our Holy Self is Salvation as the Couse teaches it. It is a matter of shifting our mind to a remembered existence that taps that holy power within us. And it starts with our willingness. This lesson explains it in this affirmation or prayer:
Who is my friend but Your holy Child? And if I see them sinful I proclaim myself a sinner, not a Child of God; alone and friendless in a fearful world. Yet this perception is a choice I make, and can relinquish. I can also see my friend sinless, as Your holy Child. And with this choice I see my sinlessness, my everlasting Comforter and Friend beside me, and my way secure and clear. Choose, then, for me, my Creator, through Your Voice. For Your Voice [Spirit] alone gives judgment in Your Name. W-pII.351.1:1-7
We are always just a thought away from the awareness of our sinlessness. We have focused on and believed so convincingly in the idea we are sinful that we lost sight of our true being. At any moment we can make another choice. A choice that will transform the world we see around us. Seeing the world through the eyes of Oneness rather than the lens of separation and division give us a new perspective. We can choose – and we really want to choose – this new-to-us perception, yet a return to the real world and reality we had abandoned. We do not need to change anything except our belief in sinfulness to transcend this world. Change your thoughts and change your world. And thus, step into the joy and peace of eternal and infinite love. This is the freedom we have been seeking.
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