February 8, 2022
Lesson 39 –
My holiness is my salvation.
Salvation is an idea that can be very challenging. Most religious have some concept of what salvation is and why it is necessary. What if salvation were not necessary? Or, what if salvation is a concept that realigns us with our innate wholeness? The idea for today, itself, points us to the idea that our holiness is already established within us and that is our salvation. All we really need do is realize we are holy and that makes us aware once again we are already holy and that awareness is our salvation. That’s merely a shift in our thinking, a change of mind about how we see ourselves.
If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? Like the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear and totally unambiguous. We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think. W-pI.39.1:1-4
This idea may seem very difficult if not impossible. However, it is surely not difficult. The hesitation we may feel in answering is not due to the ambiguity of the question. Do we believe that guilt is hell? If so, we would see at once how direct and simple the message of the Course is and would not need it at all. No one needs practice to gain what is already theirs. We need simply look within to the truth about who we really are and release the mistaken beliefs we hold about ourselves.
Your holiness is the answer to every question that was ever asked, is being asked now, or will be asked in the future. Your holiness means the end of guilt, and therefore the end of hell. Your holiness is the salvation of the world, and your own. How could you to whom your holiness belongs be excluded from it? God does not know unholiness. Can it be He does not know His Son? W-pI.39.4:1-6
Go easy on yourself. We have spent a lifetime learning and believing what we currently think abut ourselves. The holy purpose of time is to help us unlearn all those mistaken beliefs about ourselves. The more we resist letting them go, the longer it may take, but Spirit holds us in our holiness guiding us every step of the way. Our salvation from this mistaken belief is the recognition of our innate holiness. Nothing is wrong or broken about our real self. Be willing to turn to the holiness that we are and see a changed and healed world rooted in the Oneness of Love and Peace and Joy. This is our natural state of being. This is who we really are.
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