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<center>'''God's Will for me is perfect happiness.'''</center>
God's Will for me is perfect happiness.
Today we will continue with the theme of happiness. This is a key idea in
understanding what salvation means. You still believe it asks for suffering
as penance for your "sins." This is not so. Yet you must think it so while
you believe that sin is real, and that God's Son can sin.
If sin is real, then punishment is just and cannot be escaped. Salvation thus
cannot be purchased but through suffering. If sin is real, then happiness
must be illusion, for they cannot both be true. The sinful warrant only death
and pain, and it is this they ask for. For they know it waits for them, and it
will seek them out and find them somewhere, sometime, in some form that
evens the account they owe to God. They would escape Him in their fear.
And yet He will pursue, and they can not escape.
If sin is real, salvation must be pain. Pain is the cost of sin, and suffering
can never be escaped, if sin is real. Salvation must be feared, for it will kill,
but slowly, taking everything away before it grants the welcome boon of
death to victims who are little more than bones before salvation is appeased.
Its wrath is boundless, merciless, but wholly just.
Who would seek out such savage punishment? Who would not flee
salvation, and attempt in every way he can to drown the Voice which offers
it to him? Why would he try to listen and accept Its offering? If sin is real,
its offering is death, and meted out in cruel form to match the vicious
wishes in which sin is born. If sin is real, salvation has become your bitter
enemy, the curse of God upon you who have crucified His Son.
You need the practice periods today. The exercises teach sin is not real, and
all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, for it has no
cause. Accept Atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no lingering
belief that you have made a devil of God's Son. There is no sin. We practice
with this thought as often as we can today, because it is the basis for today's
idea.
God's Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and
suffering is causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have
misunderstood yourself. Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in
confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has
wrought in feverish imagination. Say:
<center>''God's Will for me is perfect happiness.''</center>
<center>''There is no sin; it has no consequence.''</center>
So should you start your practice periods, and then attempt again to find the
joy these thoughts will introduce into your mind.
Give these five minutes gladly, to remove the heavy load you lay upon
yourself with the insane belief that sin is real. Today escape from madness.
You are set on freedom's road, and now today's idea brings wings to speed
you on, and hope to go still faster to the waiting goal of peace. There is no
sin. Remember this today, and tell yourself as often as you can:
<center>''God's Will for me is perfect happiness.''</center>
<center>''This is the truth, because there is no sin.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''God's Will for me is perfect happiness.'''</center>
God's Will for me is perfect happiness.
Today we will continue with the theme of happiness. This is a key idea in
understanding what salvation means. You still believe it asks for suffering
as penance for your "sins." This is not so. Yet you must think it so while
you believe that sin is real, and that God's Son can sin.
If sin is real, then punishment is just and cannot be escaped. Salvation thus
cannot be purchased but through suffering. If sin is real, then happiness
must be illusion, for they cannot both be true. The sinful warrant only death
and pain, and it is this they ask for. For they know it waits for them, and it
will seek them out and find them somewhere, sometime, in some form that
evens the account they owe to God. They would escape Him in their fear.
And yet He will pursue, and they can not escape.
If sin is real, salvation must be pain. Pain is the cost of sin, and suffering
can never be escaped, if sin is real. Salvation must be feared, for it will kill,
but slowly, taking everything away before it grants the welcome boon of
death to victims who are little more than bones before salvation is appeased.
Its wrath is boundless, merciless, but wholly just.
Who would seek out such savage punishment? Who would not flee
salvation, and attempt in every way he can to drown the Voice which offers
it to him? Why would he try to listen and accept Its offering? If sin is real,
its offering is death, and meted out in cruel form to match the vicious
wishes in which sin is born. If sin is real, salvation has become your bitter
enemy, the curse of God upon you who have crucified His Son.
You need the practice periods today. The exercises teach sin is not real, and
all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, for it has no
cause. Accept Atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no lingering
belief that you have made a devil of God's Son. There is no sin. We practice
with this thought as often as we can today, because it is the basis for today's
idea.
God's Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and
suffering is causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have
misunderstood yourself. Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in
confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has
wrought in feverish imagination. Say:
<center>''God's Will for me is perfect happiness.''</center>
<center>''There is no sin; it has no consequence.''</center>
So should you start your practice periods, and then attempt again to find the
joy these thoughts will introduce into your mind.
Give these five minutes gladly, to remove the heavy load you lay upon
yourself with the insane belief that sin is real. Today escape from madness.
You are set on freedom's road, and now today's idea brings wings to speed
you on, and hope to go still faster to the waiting goal of peace. There is no
sin. Remember this today, and tell yourself as often as you can:
<center>''God's Will for me is perfect happiness.''</center>
<center>''This is the truth, because there is no sin.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]