June 17, 2014
We have taught ourselves that freedom and imprisonment are the same. What does that mean? How could we possibly think imprisonment and freedom are the same? Let’s put it another way. We have taught ourselves to believe that real freedom, the Will of God, Imprisons or limits us. We believe It limits who and what we are. The Will of God, which is also our Will for we are created by and share the Will of God, is real freedom and limitlessness. We have mistakenly taught ourselves that real freedom is imprisonment in an effort to establish an identity separate from our true identity. We have aligned our minds with the idea that the Will of God, our own will, limits who we are when the total opposite is true.
The Will of God, which is our own Will since it is completely shared, is limitless. It is all powerful, infinite and totally loving. There is nothing real that can threaten that Will. The most we ca do is block our awareness of Its limitless love and power. Those blocks are ideas and thoughts that we choose to believe. Because we have free will, we are free to think and believe whatever we choose to think and believe whether or not the idea is correct. Aligning our minds with ideas that are incorrect or in conflict with Truth creates a block to the truth and knowledge that is in conflict with the incorrect idea. It is impossible to believe two conflicting ideas at the same time. Our true mind knows the difference, and we never leave our true Will, but we block our awareness of our true identity and therefore think we are separate. The Holy Spirit is our guide back. The Course is the method Spirit uses to help us change our mind and the way we think.
The Course tells us:
“The Will of God is without limit, and all power and glory lie within it. It is boundless in strength and in love and in peace. It has no boundaries because its extension is unlimited, and it encompasses all things because it created all things. By creating all things, it made them part of itself. You are the Will of God because that is how you were created. Because your Creator creates only like the Creator, you are like the Creator. You are part of the One Who is all power and glory, and are therefore as unlimited as the One is.” (T-8.II.7.1-7)
Spirit appeals to us to restore our awareness of the power and peace of the Realm of Heaven to our minds. Spirit asks us to simply acknowledge who and what we really are and the Realm which is our true home. By our recognition, our belief of and alignment with our true shared Will, we awaken the minds of all Creation and through theirs our awakening of our awareness is extended. This is the natural response of the One Child of God to the Voice for the Creator. The confusion of imprisonment and freedom is resolved. For we are the essence of freedom and limitlessness. Let go of your alignment with your mistaken beliefs that hold you captive and allow Spirit to gently guide you to the freedom in the awareness of who you really are.
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