LESSON SEVENTY-ONE

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

Only God’s plan for salvation will work.

That’s obvious unless You consider Yourself to be Your own god, which is typical of the ego mentality.  This is what has endlessly continued the separation.

¹ You may not realize that the ego has set up a plan for salvation in opposition to God’s. It is this plan in which you believe.  –

Hence You have the continuation of the separation: insane ego identification.

Since it is the opposite of God’s, you also believe that to accept God’s plan in place of the ego’s is to be damned.

When You’re choosing for the ego mentality, God is seen to be the unacknowledged enemy.

This sounds preposterous, of course. Yet after we have considered just what the ego’s plan is, perhaps you will realize that, however preposterous it may be, you do believe it.

² The ego’s plan for salvation centers around holding grievances. – Your Brother must be wrong so that You are able to be right. Thus the grievances do serve a purpose, an important one! – It maintains that if someone else spoke or acted differently, if some external circumstance or event were changed, you would be saved. Thus the source of salvation is constantly perceived as outside yourself.

This makes You a perennial victim, and Your Brother a crime perpetrator; two birds with one stone.

³ Each grievance you hold is a declaration and an assertion in which you believe that says, “If this were different, I would be saved.” The change of mind that is necessary for salvation is thus demanded of everyone and everything except yourself.

⁴ The role assigned to your own mind in this plan, then, is simply to determine what other than itself must change if you are to be saved. – It’s quite clever; just totally insane! –According to this insane plan, any perceived source of salvation is acceptable, provided that it will not work. – A variation of the ego’s rule, and very basic: Seek and do not find. – This ensures that the fruitless search will continue, for the illusion persists that, although this hope has always failed, there are still grounds for hope in other places and in other things. Another person will yet serve better; another situation will yet offer success.

Ego’s hope in failure springs eternal.

⁵ Such is the ego’s plan for your salvation. Surely you can see how it is in strict accord with the ego’s basic doctrine, “Seek but do not find.” For what could more surely guarantee that you will not find salvation than to channelize all your efforts in searching for it where it is not?

And why is this rule so crucial?  Simple: it ensures the continuation of the dream.  I cannot say this too often.

The ego wants a never-ending dream.

⁶ God’s plan for salvation works simply because, by following His direction, you seek for salvation where it is. But if you are to succeed, as God promises you will, you must be willing to seek there only. Otherwise your purpose is divided, and you will attempt to follow two plans for salvation which are diametrically opposed in all ways. The result can only bring confusion, misery, and a deep sense of failure and despair.

Bottom line: You can’t make Your Brother wrong and still gain Your freedom.  See why the ego just loves grievance.  It’s so appealing to be wronged by Your Brother.  When He’s wrong, look how right You are!

⁷ How can you escape all this? Very simply. The idea for today is the answer. Only God’s plan for salvation will work. There can be no real conflict about this, because there is no possible alternative to God’s plan that will save you. His is the only plan that is certain in its outcome. His is the only plan that must succeed.

Will You choose His plan over the ego’s?

So far, You haven’t.  Hear Me once again.  Here is the only way to heal Your pain: Brother, choose again.  Sister, choose again.

This time choose for God and not the ego.

⁸ Let us practice recognizing this certainty today. And let us rejoice that there is an answer to what seems to be a conflict with no resolution possible. All things are possible to God. Salvation must be yours because of His plan, which cannot fail.

Just as important: all things are possible with God.  Turn to Him with all Your heart and soul and mind, for Love is so wonderfully kind.  You may learn from the Love of God how to Love Your Brother, thus ending grievances toward Him forever.

It matters not what You have done, for when God gazes upon You, All He sees is His belovèd Son.

Please do give this same Gift to Your Brother and to Your Sister.  To give it costs You nothing but Your pride, which is replaced with overflowing Love.

⁹ Begin the two longer practice periods for today by thinking about today’s idea and realizing that it contains two parts, each making equal contribution to the whole. God’s plan for your salvation will work, and other plans will not. Do not allow yourself to become depressed or angry at the second part; it is inherent in the first. And in the first is your full release from all your own insane attempts and mad proposals to free yourself. They have led to depression and anger. But God’s plan will succeed. It will lead to release and joy.

¹⁰ Remembering this, let us devote the remainder of the extended practice periods to asking God to reveal His plan to us. Ask Him very specifically:

¹¹ What would You have me do?
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me say, and to whom?

What a lovely opportunity to be His willing Messenger of Love, Gifting All Your Brothers.

¹² Give Him full charge of the rest of the practice period, and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you in His plan for your salvation. He will answer you in proportion to your willingness to hear His Voice. Refuse not to hear. The very fact that you are doing the exercises proves that you have some willingness to listen. This is enough to establish your claim to God’s answer.

How wonderful the blessings that flow from the little willingness that is asked for.

¹³ In the shorter practice periods tell yourself often that God’s plan for salvation, and only His, will work. Be alert to all temptation to hold grievances today, and respond to them with this form of today’s idea:

¹⁴ Holding grievances is the opposite of God’s plan for
Salvation. And only His plan will work.

Let Yourself remember that only heeding God will bring to You true happiness.

¹⁵ Try to remember the idea for today some six or seven times an hour. There could be no better way to spend a half-minute or less than to remember the Source of your salvation, and to see It where It is.

The more God fills Your mind, and lives as You, the happier You’ll be.

Thank you Dear Brother]

*Sun~Rose is the scribe of the recently published book, “YOU ARE LOVED AND SAFE: PREP NOTES FOR EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVE“, Jesus’ Guidance on the Miracle Principles

She is also author of, “RADIANT LIFE: RAW FOOD AND THE PRESENCE OF LOVE”

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