Lesson 98

I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.

Let's try again today. You can do it. Side for truth today and let illusions go. This is Jesus standing beside you, leading you, supporting you, asking you today to take a step into full commitment to your awakening.

Today is a day of special dedication. We take a stand on but one side today. We side with truth and let illusions go. We will not vacillate between the two, but take a firm position with the One. We dedicate ourselves to truth today, and to salvation as God planned it be. We will not argue it is something else. We will not seek for it where it is not. In gladness we accept it as it is, and take the part assigned to us by God.

The whole problem that you have is that you try to fit A Course In Miracles into your small frame of reference. You try to use it to have a better life, to solve the problems in your relationship, to find the best job. All you ever do is try to bring truth to illusion, and it won't work.


'So what is the illusion?', you might ask. What a great question. Let's look at it directly. The illusion is you as you see yourself in a body identity. In fact, it is you as you see yourself now, period. The one mistake that you make, and that you hold onto with all your might, is that you believe this world is real. From that framework you try to make the world a better place. Good luck. You have tried it for centuries, it is a hopeless effort. The only change you can really make is in you, you can change your mind about yourself. Now you are on to something, now you are doing the mind training of the workbook lessons.

I am not a body, I am free.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
I choose the second place to gain the first.

These are all great lessons. As is the lesson for today. You have a purpose to fulfill and it is all about your contact with God. That should be your focus, every moment. Up till now you have focused on the world and everything in it, but now you focus on God.

How happy to be certain! All our doubts we lay aside today, and take our stand with certainty of purpose, and with thanks that doubt is gone and surety has come. We have a mighty purpose to fulfill, and have been given everything we need with which to reach the goal. Not one mistake stands in our way. For we have been absolved from errors. All our sins are washed away by realizing they were but mistakes.

The guiltless have no fear, for they are safe and recognize their safety. They do not appeal to magic, nor invent escapes from fancied threats without reality. They rest in quiet certainty that they will do what it is given them to do. They do not doubt their own ability because they know their function will be filled completely in the perfect time and place. They took the stand which we will take today, that we may share their certainty and thus increase it by accepting it ourselves.

Your safety lies in God and in Him only. Look around you and you will know this to be true. Does your safety lie in the government's hands? In a doctor's hands? In the car coming at you on the road? Hardly. You have no idea where anyone is at, you can only take responsibility for what is going on in your own mind. Focus on God today, stay in communication with Him. Listen to His Voice and let Him show you where to go and what to do. Go beyond this world all together. Forget about it. It has no reality. Only God is real, and you in Him. You are as God created you.