Lesson 100

My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.

God's Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will? The part that He has saved for you to take in working out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills. This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. Your joy must be complete to let His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh.

You are indeed essential to God's plan. Without your joy, His joy is incomplete. Without your smile, the world cannot be saved. While you are sad, the light that God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless, and no one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours.

What a great lesson. You are essential to God's plan for salvation and He asks you to be happy. Simple, right?

Right...

Fact of the matter is that when you believe that this world has reality, you can't possibly be happy. Look around you. People get kidnapped, killed for no reason, lose their jobs and their houses and on and on. Your happiness does not lie here. Your happiness is in God and in the realization that the world you seem to live in has no reality, that you are dreaming and that you can awaken. That should make you very happy.

This is your Easter Advent and there is a lot of light and conversion. God is shining His light on you and knows that His light is yours. The conversion takes place in your mind as you let old thoughts of pain and death be replaced with the thought of God. It is intense, but thank God. Why would you hold on to ideas of pain and death. Why would you want to get away with anything? Your 'yes, but...' should be running out of steam by now. Stand up, declare yourself, be active in your awakening. Take off your hat of death and wear your Easter bonnet. He is risen. He is risen indeed! And you have risen with Him. What a glorious advent.

We will not let ourselves be sad today. For if we do, we fail to take the part that is essential to God's plan, as well as to our vision. Sadness is the sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to you by God. Thus do you fail to show the world how great the happiness He wills for you. And so you do not recognize that it is yours.

Today we will attempt to understand joy is our function here. If you are sad, your part is unfulfilled, and all the world is thus deprived of joy, along with you. God asks you to be happy, so the world can see how much He loves His Son, and wills no sorrow rises to abate his joy; no fear besets him to disturb his peace. You are God's messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you and sees His message in your happy face.