My thoughts* on ACIM, Urtext pg. 300 I Do Not Mind Disagreeing with Jesus When it Seems Off
Of course, one has to look at who is being spoken to and what their understanding is. He will make every attempt to coax us along to truth.
I was prompted to post this from my daily reading a few days ago.
By the time I got to it, this seemed a good statement for Independence Day.
I did take the liberty to place the sentences ~ one at a time ~ for the purpose of focus and consideration.
May we all find the freedom that ONLY God can give.
In Christ’s Name, Amen.
My thoughts* on Urtext pg. 300
But the essential thing is learning that YOU DO NOT KNOW.
Knowledge is power, and all power is of God.
You who have tried to keep power for yourselves, have lost it.
You still HAVE the power, but you have interposed so much between it and your AWARENESS of it, that you cannot use it.
EVERYTHING you have taught yourselves has made your power more and more obscure to you.
You know not WHAT it is, nor WHERE. You have made a SEMBLANCE of power, and a SHOW of strength, so pitiful that it MUST fail you.
For power is not seeming strength, and truth is beyond a semblance of any kind.
Yet all that stands between you, and the power of God in you, is but your learning of the false, and your attempts to UNDO THE TRUE.
Be willing, then, for ALL of it to be undone, and be glad that you are not bound to it forever.
For you have taught yourselves HOW TO IMPRISON THE SON OF GOD, a lesson so unthinkable that only the insane, in deepest sleep, could even DREAM of it.
Can God learn how NOT to be God?
And can His Son, GIVEN all power BY Him, learn to be powerLESS?
What have you taught yourselves that you can possibly prefer to keep, in place of what you HAVE, and what you ARE?
Atonement teaches you how to escape forever from everything that you have taught yourselves in the past, by showing you ONLY what you ARE NOW.
* THIS is the proper way to reflect on the concept of NOW.
Learning HAS BEEN accomplished, BEFORE its effects are manifest.
Learning is therefore IN THE PAST, but its influence DETERMINES the present, by giving it whatever meaning it holds for you.
Your learning gives the present NO MEANING AT ALL.
Nothing you have ever learned can help you understand the present, or teach you how to undo the past.
Your past IS what you have taught yourselves.
* That would be ego-created and not a reality at all. Thank goodness for most of us. And for ALL of us who know that we are ONE. Even if we only understand it intellectually.
LET IT ALL GO.
Do NOT attempt to understand ANY event, or ANYTHING, or ANYONE in its light, for the light of darkness, by which you TRY to see, can ONLY obscure.
* Let go of YOUR INTERPRETATION of it, however, if it is brought to mind after accepting the Atonement the Holy (Wholly) Spirit is trying to teach you something from it or have you see something and process it. He is the Comforter so this is not something to be afraid of.
Put no confidence at all in darkness to illuminate your understanding, for if you do, you CONTR(A)DICT the light, and thereby THINK you see the darkness.
* IF we NO LONGER lived in the realm of darkness, Jesus, this would work. And perhaps this was the way that Helen and Bill needed to see the situation. The Holy Spirit guides us through the darkness and shows us ways that individuals and societies of all sizes are living by definition of the past. This will need to be recognized so that we may navigate our existence while ANY of us remain in darkness.
* One needs to remember the big picture of who Jesus is speaking to and when to be able to understand his words.
Yet darkness cannot BE seen, for it is nothing more than a condition in which seeing becomes impossible.
* With the Vision of God, given by the Spirit, we will know that the darkness is not real but that does not mean that we will not see it.
* This is the kind of reference that tells me that Helen, nor Bill had a handle on what Jesus was teaching. For this Course to get to us Jesus had to allow what they would permit. This would go for the one who went “word by word” through the Course with Helen as well.
You who have not yet brought ALL of the darkness you have taught yourselves unto the light in you, can hardly judge the truth and value of this course.
* This is a statement that ACKNOWLEDGES that the scribes had not as yet received the Atonement for themselves.
Yet God did not abandon you.
And so you have another lesson, sent from Him, ALREADY learned for every Child of Light, by Him to Whom God gave it.
This lesson shines with God’s glory, for in it lies His power, which
He shares so gladly with His Son.
Learn of His happiness, which is yours.
But to accomplish this, all your dark lessons MUST be brought willingly to truth, and joyously laid down, by hands open to receive, not closed to take.
Every dark lesson that you bring to Him Who teaches light, He will accept FROM you, BECAUSE YOU DO NOT WANT IT.
And He will gladly EXCHANGE each one for the bright lesson He has learned FOR you.
Never believe that ANY lesson you have learned, APART from Him, means ANYTHING.”
* The Holy (Wholly) Spirit must be our ONLY TEACHER.
Till next time, God bless, debi.
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