10 God’s Will does not oppose. It merely is. It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self. He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will. There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer. That is all. And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but this.
11 Now do we live, for now we cannot die. The wish for death is answered, and the sight that looked upon it now has been replaced by vision which perceives that you are not what you pretend to be. One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.
Now we begin the new Day an awake Day; “Really I cannot die?” Our wish for the escape of death as the way out of our dream was an impossible wish, because death is not real for it is impossible for life to die. Such oxymorons only existed in the irrational world we made, in our dream time. Everything we thought we were we are not. We see we were mistaken about our identity and the correction of that mistake is our salvation. We are as God created us not as we dreamed we were. What God created must be in Her image: Comforted, Life, Love, Peace, Holy, Free, Secure and Fearless.
12 Yet He reminds you still of one thing more you had forgotten. For His touch on you has made you like Himself. The gifts you have are not for you alone. What He has come to offer you, you now must learn to give. This is the lesson that His giving holds, for He has saved you from the solitude you sought to make in which to hide from God. He has reminded you of all the gifts that God has given you. He speaks as well of what becomes your will when you accept these gifts, and recognize they are your own.
Gods One gift is Himself. We are like Him/Her in every way because the image of God is Gods infinite variety, unending expression, there is nowhere else to be and no one else to be. “Know you not you are Gods” [John 10.34 and Psa. 82.6] as Jesus told us when he was here the first time. What we are able to give once it is ours, is Forgiveness—the main lesson of the course. “Forgive and be forgiven” [W.122; Luke 11:4; Matt 6.12] And the main message of the Bible.
1. God does not forgive because He has never condemned. ²And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. ³Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. ⁴Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. ⁵As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.
2. Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness. [W.46:1-2]
If the Kingdom of God is within us then it is also among us because we are not one solitary being wandering the world alone. Can you imagine guilt, condemnation, un-forgiveness in God’s Kingdom? Her Queendom is just like her in every way for God is Love and nothing else.
1. God does not forgive because She has never condemned. ²And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. W.46:1-2
13 The gifts are yours, entrusted to your care, to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped. They do not understand they but pursue their wishes. It is you who teach them now. For you have learned of Christ there is another way for them to walk. Teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God’s gifts. Let sorrow not tempt you to be unfaithful to your trust.
In our demonstration of happiness in this grieving world we shine as hope to all who come into our presence. This is the way of Jesus: “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matt.11.28 This has been the message in all the Holy books of the world there is no other message. This is how we free ourselves from the suffering we see in ourselves and the world.
We, as does God, forgive everyone and the entire world we imagined held us in bondage.
14 Your sighs will now betray the hopes of those who look to you for their release. Your tears are theirs. If you are sick, you but withhold their healing. What you fear but teaches them their fears are justified. Your hand becomes the giver of Christ’s touch; your change of mind becomes the proof that who accepts God’s gifts can never suffer anything. You are entrusted with the world’s release from pain.
This is a tough one because we are still waking up. We have been touched on the shoulder but still getting out of bed. We must learn to walk again in this new world, born again, yet crawling at first, unsteady in the gravity of this new world. And no matter how much, at times, we wish to go back to sleep we are awake now, forever, we have entered the Queendom of God and even having the feeble wish to turn back are unable to. It is here we must remember God does not condemn us ever. Get up and walk on my child, I AM holding your hand.
15 Betray it not. Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. God has entrusted all His gifts to you. Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. Such is your mission now. For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them. He has shared His joy with you. And now you go to share it with the world.
This idea of giving and receiving is an important theme in the course which teaches they are the same. In lesson 187 we read:
“I bless the world because I bless myself.
1. No one can give unless he has. ²In fact, giving is proof of having. ³We have made this point before. ⁴What seems to make it hard to credit is not this. ⁵No one can doubt that you must first possess what you would give. ⁶It is the second phase on which the world and true perception differ. ⁷Having had and given, then the world asserts that you have lost what you possessed. ⁸The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess. ACIM W 187.1-8
WB Lesson 166 commentary part 3
10 God’s Will does not oppose. It merely is. It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self. He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will. There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer. That is all. And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but this.
11 Now do we live, for now we cannot die. The wish for death is answered, and the sight that looked upon it now has been replaced by vision which perceives that you are not what you pretend to be. One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.
Now we begin the new Day an awake Day; “Really I cannot die?” Our wish for the escape of death as the way out of our dream was an impossible wish, because death is not real for it is impossible for life to die. Such oxymorons only existed in the irrational world we made, in our dream time. Everything we thought we were we are not. We see we were mistaken about our identity and the correction of that mistake is our salvation. We are as God created us not as we dreamed we were. What God created must be in Her image: Comforted, Life, Love, Peace, Holy, Free, Secure and Fearless.
12 Yet He reminds you still of one thing more you had forgotten. For His touch on you has made you like Himself. The gifts you have are not for you alone. What He has come to offer you, you now must learn to give. This is the lesson that His giving holds, for He has saved you from the solitude you sought to make in which to hide from God. He has reminded you of all the gifts that God has given you. He speaks as well of what becomes your will when you accept these gifts, and recognize they are your own.
Gods One gift is Himself. We are like Him/Her in every way because the image of God is Gods infinite variety, unending expression, there is nowhere else to be and no one else to be. “Know you not you are Gods” [John 10.34 and Psa. 82.6] as Jesus told us when he was here the first time. What we are able to give once it is ours, is Forgiveness—the main lesson of the course. “Forgive and be forgiven” [W.122; Luke 11:4; Matt 6.12] And the main message of the Bible.
1. God does not forgive because He has never condemned. ²And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. ³Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. ⁴Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. ⁵As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.
2. Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness. [W.46:1-2]
If the Kingdom of God is within us then it is also among us because we are not one solitary being wandering the world alone. Can you imagine guilt, condemnation, un-forgiveness in God’s Kingdom? Her Queendom is just like her in every way for God is Love and nothing else.
1. God does not forgive because She has never condemned. ²And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. W.46:1-2
13 The gifts are yours, entrusted to your care, to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped. They do not understand they but pursue their wishes. It is you who teach them now. For you have learned of Christ there is another way for them to walk. Teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God’s gifts. Let sorrow not tempt you to be unfaithful to your trust.
In our demonstration of happiness in this grieving world we shine as hope to all who come into our presence. This is the way of Jesus: “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matt.11.28 This has been the message in all the Holy books of the world there is no other message. This is how we free ourselves from the suffering we see in ourselves and the world.
We, as does God, forgive everyone and the entire world we imagined held us in bondage.
14 Your sighs will now betray the hopes of those who look to you for their release. Your tears are theirs. If you are sick, you but withhold their healing. What you fear but teaches them their fears are justified. Your hand becomes the giver of Christ’s touch; your change of mind becomes the proof that who accepts God’s gifts can never suffer anything. You are entrusted with the world’s release from pain.
This is a tough one because we are still waking up. We have been touched on the shoulder but still getting out of bed. We must learn to walk again in this new world, born again, yet crawling at first, unsteady in the gravity of this new world. And no matter how much, at times, we wish to go back to sleep we are awake now, forever, we have entered the Queendom of God and even having the feeble wish to turn back are unable to. It is here we must remember God does not condemn us ever. Get up and walk on my child, I AM holding your hand.
15 Betray it not. Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. God has entrusted all His gifts to you. Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. Such is your mission now. For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them. He has shared His joy with you. And now you go to share it with the world.
This idea of giving and receiving is an important theme in the course which teaches they are the same. In lesson 187 we read:
“I bless the world because I bless myself.
1. No one can give unless he has. ²In fact, giving is proof of having. ³We have made this point before. ⁴What seems to make it hard to credit is not this. ⁵No one can doubt that you must first possess what you would give. ⁶It is the second phase on which the world and true perception differ. ⁷Having had and given, then the world asserts that you have lost what you possessed. ⁸The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess. ACIM W 187.1-8
10 God’s Will does not oppose. It merely is. It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self. He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will. There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer. That is all. And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but this.
11 Now do we live, for now we cannot die. The wish for death is answered, and the sight that looked upon it now has been replaced by vision which perceives that you are not what you pretend to be. One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.
Now we begin the new Day an awake Day; “Really I cannot die?” Our wish for the escape of death as the way out of our dream was an impossible wish, because death is not real for it is impossible for life to die. Such oxymorons only existed in the irrational world we made, in our dream time. Everything we thought we were we are not. We see we were mistaken about our identity and the correction of that mistake is our salvation. We are as God created us not as we dreamed we were. What God created must be in Her image: Comforted, Life, Love, Peace, Holy, Free, Secure and Fearless.
12 Yet He reminds you still of one thing more you had forgotten. For His touch on you has made you like Himself. The gifts you have are not for you alone. What He has come to offer you, you now must learn to give. This is the lesson that His giving holds, for He has saved you from the solitude you sought to make in which to hide from God. He has reminded you of all the gifts that God has given you. He speaks as well of what becomes your will when you accept these gifts, and recognize they are your own.
Gods One gift is Himself. We are like Him/Her in every way because the image of God is Gods infinite variety, unending expression, there is nowhere else to be and no one else to be. “Know you not you are Gods” [John 10.34 and Psa. 82.6] as Jesus told us when he was here the first time. What we are able to give once it is ours, is Forgiveness—the main lesson of the course. “Forgive and be forgiven” [W.122; Luke 11:4; Matt 6.12] And the main message of the Bible.
1. God does not forgive because He has never condemned. ²And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. ³Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. ⁴Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. ⁵As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.
2. Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness. [W.46:1-2]
If the Kingdom of God is within us then it is also among us because we are not one solitary being wandering the world alone. Can you imagine guilt, condemnation, un-forgiveness in God’s Kingdom? Her Queendom is just like her in every way for God is Love and nothing else.
1. God does not forgive because She has never condemned. ²And there must be condemnation before forgiveness is necessary. W.46:1-2
13 The gifts are yours, entrusted to your care, to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped. They do not understand they but pursue their wishes. It is you who teach them now. For you have learned of Christ there is another way for them to walk. Teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God’s gifts. Let sorrow not tempt you to be unfaithful to your trust.
In our demonstration of happiness in this grieving world we shine as hope to all who come into our presence. This is the way of Jesus: “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matt.11.28 This has been the message in all the Holy books of the world there is no other message. This is how we free ourselves from the suffering we see in ourselves and the world.
We, as does God, forgive everyone and the entire world we imagined held us in bondage.
14 Your sighs will now betray the hopes of those who look to you for their release. Your tears are theirs. If you are sick, you but withhold their healing. What you fear but teaches them their fears are justified. Your hand becomes the giver of Christ’s touch; your change of mind becomes the proof that who accepts God’s gifts can never suffer anything. You are entrusted with the world’s release from pain.
This is a tough one because we are still waking up. We have been touched on the shoulder but still getting out of bed. We must learn to walk again in this new world, born again, yet crawling at first, unsteady in the gravity of this new world. And no matter how much, at times, we wish to go back to sleep we are awake now, forever, we have entered the Queendom of God and even having the feeble wish to turn back are unable to. It is here we must remember God does not condemn us ever. Get up and walk on my child, I AM holding your hand.
15 Betray it not. Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. God has entrusted all His gifts to you. Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. Such is your mission now. For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them. He has shared His joy with you. And now you go to share it with the world.
This idea of giving and receiving is an important theme in the course which teaches they are the same. In lesson 187 we read:
“I bless the world because I bless myself.
1. No one can give unless he has. ²In fact, giving is proof of having. ³We have made this point before. ⁴What seems to make it hard to credit is not this. ⁵No one can doubt that you must first possess what you would give. ⁶It is the second phase on which the world and true perception differ. ⁷Having had and given, then the world asserts that you have lost what you possessed. ⁸The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess. ACIM W 187.1-8
God is Good 