ACIM Workbook Lesson 115 – for Monday, April 25, 2011
Affirmation: “Salvation is my only function here.”
Selected Passage:
“My function here is to forgive the world for all the errors I have made. For thus am I released from them with all the world. (WB208)”
Affirmation: “My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.”
Selected Passage:
“I am essential to the plan of God for salvation of the world. For He gave me His plan that I might save the world. (WB208)”
Reflections:
Our function is forgiveness of ourselves and our brothers and sisters. Elsewhere in A Course in Miracles other aspects, synonymous with forgiveness, are given as our function: salvation and happiness are two. If we reflect on the fact that forgiveness will make us happy (and it will), and that salvation comes on the heels of forgiveness, we can see the unity of all these various terms–all meant to mean the same thing.
Each of us has a particular part to play in salvation (a Text tenet). Anyone who chooses to be a teacher of God is going to be. It happens as soon as we take up the call, as soon as we have seen in another the same interests as our own (a Manual tenet). Only time separates the student from the teacher; the teacher does not have anything that the student is not also capable of having. Perhaps a bit of time separates the two, but that is all. A teacher is anyone who choose to be a teacher.
If we do not take the part that God has assigned to us, we leave that place vacant. Other individuals will not have the blessings that only we ourselves can bring to them.
These two lessons, in review today, are pivotal in understanding ACIM. They are among the most important lessons that we can learn. Let us reflect on them, and see today if we might not do something more for God and for salvation.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
May I reflect frequently on the lessons for review today. I realize that if I master them, not only will I help others to salvation, but I will also help myself.
Thank You for standing by me when I make mistakes. To fail to be happy is a form of mistake that most of us make at various times in our lives. May I not make this mistake today.
Amen.
