Course In Miracles Week Forty Five
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
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Lesson 310
"In fearlessness and love I spend today."
"This day, my Father, would I spend with You, as You have chosen all my days should be. And what I will experience is not of time at all. The joy that comes to me is not of days nor hours, for it comes from Heaven to Your Son. This day will be Your sweet reminder to remember You, Your gracious calling to Your holy Son, the sign Your grace has come to me, and that it is Your Will I be set free today."
You and I spend today together and the world joins in song with us about our gratitude and joy to Him because He saved us and set us free. We are at peace and restored in our holiness. Fear has no place here today, we have now welcomed love into our hearts.
What is the Last Judgment?
The Final Judgment on the world will not have any condemning because it sees the world as forgiven. It has no cause and no function in Christ's sight, so it slips away into nothingness, ending where it began. Our bodies will fade away. God's Judgment is only a correction that He bestows on all your errors, freeing you from them and all the effect they seemed to have. You do not need to fear this, it is only God's saving grace come to release you from suffering. It returns you to peace, safety and happiness. It connects you to your own Identity.
Love is the one thing that can heal pain and sadness and dry tears, gently awakening you from this dream. Welcome salvation to set the world free. God's final judgment is: "You are still My holy Son, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore awaken and return to Me. I am Your Father and you are My Son."
Lesson 311
"I judge all things as I would have them be."
Judgment is used as a weapon against truth and separates what it is being used against, as if it is apart from it. Then it makes it what you want. Judging what it cannot understand, because it doesn't see the whole picture. We will not use it and instead give it to Him. He has a different use for it, relieving us of the weight of all the judgments we have made on ourselves. This will bring back peace of mind.
"Father, we wait with an open mind today, to hear Your Judgment of the Son You love. We do not know him, and we cannot judge. And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your Son must be."
Lesson 312
"I see all things as I would have them be."
We see things in a certain way because we have judged them. We see what we want to see. The world will see that a person has taken on the purpose to see the Holy Spirit. He can only see what Christ wants him to see and he will share the love with Christ of what he sees.
"I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made. Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well."
Lesson 313
"Now let a new perception come to me."
"Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with Which I would identify."
Today we look at each other through the eyes of Christ. We see our beauty and how holy and loving we are. Join in today and save the world together. The world is as holy as the light within us and when we look at it together it becomes so.
Lesson 314
"I seek a future different from the past."
If you see the world in a new way the future becomes something very different from the past. It reflects only the present and past mistakes do not have any bearing on it. Fear has no effect and death does not have a place in the future either. The present has been freed and there is no suffering because it is secure and filled with joy, its goal is life now.
"Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light."
Lesson 315
"All gifts my brothers give belong to me."
Each moment brings a treasure. These gifts are a blessing with greater value than anything else. When I see others exchanging smiles my heart feels happy. When someone says a kind word or shows mercy, it is a gift that my mind can also receive and take as its own. Every person who finds God is saving me and helping me find my way, showing me that what he knows is mine to know as well.
"I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me. Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory."
Lesson 316
"All gifts I give my brothers are my own."
Just like the gift others give is mine, every gift I give belongs to me. Each time I give, a past mistake is let go and leaves the holy mind my Father loves. Every gift my brother has given throughout time is given to me as well as His grace. I am at home among these gifts and treasures that God has given me.
"Father, I would accept Your gifts today. I do not recognize them. Yet I trust that You Who gave them will provide the means by which I can behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I want."