“That you have chosen God and chosen a new means of coming to know the truth–the means of Christ-consciousness, is what has ushered in the new time. (The Treatises of A Course of Love: “A Treatise on the New,” 1.18)”
Affirmation: “We are in the new time.”
Reflections:
We have sought long and hard for the reassurances that Jesus is ready to give us now.
This passage builds upon the passage of yesterday. We are indeed living in a new time, and the “Treatise on the New” is written to detail to us what this new experience will mean.
Perhaps we will not all experience Christ-consciousness immediately. But the means to reach this experience is what Jesus is trying to impart to us now. Perhaps our experience of the new will vary from time to time. Perhaps we will not live in Christ-consciousness in a sustained way–yet. But the sustainability of Christ-consciousness, the reality of the elevated Self of form, is what Jesus holds out to us, in A Course of Love, as attainable.
What must we do? We must welcome the experiences that come to us. We need not doubt that new experiences will come. We must await them in this new time. And we will not, according to Jesus’s words in the third book in the series, the Dialogues, have to wait long. Our readiness is held out to us as something tangible and real. If we resist, we may need more time. It is best that we accept Jesus’s words as true and real in the present. Then the miracle of Christ-consciousness will burst upon our ready souls.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
If I am ready, may my experience of Christ-consciousness deepen and expand. May it grow to contain my whole world. May I be made ready for this glorious new experience.
Thank You for assisting my growth into a new individual. I know that You stand ready, by my side, at all times. Help me to be aware of this, and to fear nothing.
Amen.
ACIM Workbook Lesson for Day 147:
My mind holds only what I think with God.
I will not value what is valueless.
Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
