“See you now why those who judge cannot enter heaven? Judgment proceeds from the belief in sin and the irreversibility of all errors. If you do not believe you can reverse or ‘turn back’ to the state in which you existed before the original error, then you never shall. (A Course of Love, 17.12)”
Affirmation: “May my beliefs dovetail with the good.”
Reflections:
1 – God Protects Us
There is subtle intrusion here, from Jesus, of the importance of belief in living our lives. If we don’t believe that something is possible, then it will not find a place in our experience. If we do believe (turning the statement on its head), then we will experience that for which we ask, provided that it is good and right for ourselves. For God protects us still.
2 – Three Prohibitions
In A Course in Miracles, we are bade to avoid attack, avoid judgment, and avoid making plans against contingencies to come (unless prompted by the Holy Spirit). To avoid these things is to invite heaven (an interpretation, not stated in ACIM). Surely to do these things is to fall away from salvation, and our lives, likewise, will start falling apart.
3 – Judgment
In the passage for today, Jesus especially points out the dangers of judgment. And, in doing so, he echoes the New Testament, as many of us know.
4 – Original Error
The original error was the presumed separation from God, the rise of the ego, and the loss of that sense of joining with God and all others. This, according to ACIM, was a “tiny, mad idea” at which the children of God forgot to laugh. And in the forgetting did it become possible for the impossible to seem to happen.
5 – Erase the Evil
We do need to realize that all of this misfortune can be erased. We do not have to presume a separated state any longer. When we allow God to speak to us from within (or the Holy Spirit, as described in ACIM), then the Christ/Self can rise to the forefront of our lives. And our lives will get immeasurably better.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
Please be with me today as I seek to implement the law of attraction, which is what this passage for today is saying. I do choose to hope only for those things that You would have for me, because You see the whole picture, and I see in part. Be with me to implement–not to “effort” to have, for this would be thinking amiss. If my heart tells me that I am to have something, then I am more likely to be on the right beam.
If I do not feel internally that I can manifest something, then trying to manifest that thing (whatever it might be) is wrong. I would not go wrong today. Help me to follow You, as always. And may my words help others who might chance to read this blog.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 