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<center>'''I walk with God in perfect holiness.'''</center>
I walk with God in perfect holiness.
Today's idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin
impossible. It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it
does not exist. It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned
in the text; ideas leave not their source. If this be true, how can you be apart
from God? How could you walk the world alone and separate from your
Source?
We are not inconsistent in the thoughts that we present in our curriculum.
Truth must be true throughout, if it be true. It cannot contradict itself, nor be
in parts uncertain and in others sure. You cannot walk the world apart from
God, because you could not be without Him. He is what your life is. Where
you are He is. There is one life. That life you share with Him. Nothing can
be apart from Him and live.
Yet where He is, there must be holiness as well as life. No attribute of His
remains unshared by everything that lives. What lives is holy as Himself,
because what shares His life is part of Holiness, and could no more be sinful
than the sun could choose to be of ice; the sea elect to be apart from water,
or the grass to grow with roots suspended in the air.
There is a light in you which cannot die; whose presence is so holy that the
world is sanctified because of you. All things that live bring gifts to you,
and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is
their gift to you. The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their
arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before you on the
ground that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper
round your holy head.
The light in you is what the universe longs to behold. All living things are
still before you, for they recognize Who walks with you. The light you carry
is their own. And thus they see in you their holiness, saluting you as savior
and as God. Accept their reverence, for it is due to Holiness Itself, which
walks with you, transforming in Its gentle light all things unto Its likeness
and Its purity.
This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the light in you steps
forward and encompasses the world. It heralds not the end of sin in
punishment and death. In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its
quaint absurdity is seen. It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not
frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach
to God Himself for such a senseless whim?
Yet you have wasted many, many years on just this foolish thought. The
past is gone, with all its fantasies. They keep you bound no longer. The
approach to God is near. And in the little interval of doubt that still remains,
you may perhaps lose sight of your Companion, and mistake Him for the
senseless, ancient dream that now is past.
"Who walks with me?" This question should be asked a thousand times a
day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. Today let
doubting cease. God speaks for you in answering your question with these
words:
<center>''I walk with God in perfect holiness.''</center>
<center>''I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds''</center>
<center>''which God created one with me.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''I walk with God in perfect holiness.'''</center>
I walk with God in perfect holiness.
Today's idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin
impossible. It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it
does not exist. It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned
in the text; ideas leave not their source. If this be true, how can you be apart
from God? How could you walk the world alone and separate from your
Source?
We are not inconsistent in the thoughts that we present in our curriculum.
Truth must be true throughout, if it be true. It cannot contradict itself, nor be
in parts uncertain and in others sure. You cannot walk the world apart from
God, because you could not be without Him. He is what your life is. Where
you are He is. There is one life. That life you share with Him. Nothing can
be apart from Him and live.
Yet where He is, there must be holiness as well as life. No attribute of His
remains unshared by everything that lives. What lives is holy as Himself,
because what shares His life is part of Holiness, and could no more be sinful
than the sun could choose to be of ice; the sea elect to be apart from water,
or the grass to grow with roots suspended in the air.
There is a light in you which cannot die; whose presence is so holy that the
world is sanctified because of you. All things that live bring gifts to you,
and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is
their gift to you. The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their
arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before you on the
ground that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper
round your holy head.
The light in you is what the universe longs to behold. All living things are
still before you, for they recognize Who walks with you. The light you carry
is their own. And thus they see in you their holiness, saluting you as savior
and as God. Accept their reverence, for it is due to Holiness Itself, which
walks with you, transforming in Its gentle light all things unto Its likeness
and Its purity.
This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the light in you steps
forward and encompasses the world. It heralds not the end of sin in
punishment and death. In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its
quaint absurdity is seen. It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not
frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach
to God Himself for such a senseless whim?
Yet you have wasted many, many years on just this foolish thought. The
past is gone, with all its fantasies. They keep you bound no longer. The
approach to God is near. And in the little interval of doubt that still remains,
you may perhaps lose sight of your Companion, and mistake Him for the
senseless, ancient dream that now is past.
"Who walks with me?" This question should be asked a thousand times a
day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. Today let
doubting cease. God speaks for you in answering your question with these
words:
<center>''I walk with God in perfect holiness.''</center>
<center>''I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds''</center>
<center>''which God created one with me.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
