Sawadee Khrap
What power lies in a judgment ? ALL POWER – the power to obscure the Love of God. This section from the “Course†states it so clearly:
ACIM Chapter 24, “The Goal of Specialness”, Section 1, “Specialness is a Substitute for Love”
“Love IS extension. To withhold the smallest gift is not to know love’s purpose. Love offers everything forever. Hold back but ONE belief, ONE offering, and love is gone, because you asked a substitute to take its place. And now must war, the SUBSTITUTE for peace, come with the one alternative that you CAN choose for love. Your CHOOSING it has given it ALL the reality it seems to have. Beliefs will never OPENLY attack each other, because conflicting outcomes ARE impossible. But an UNRECOGNIZED belief is a decision to war in secret, where the results of conflict are kept unknown and NEVER brought to reason, to be considered sensible or not.
And many senseless outcomes HAVE been reached, and meaningless decisions have been made and kept hidden, to become beliefs now GIVEN power to direct all subsequent decisions. Mistake you not the power of these hidden warriors to disrupt your peace. For it IS at their mercy while you decide to leave it there. The secret enemies of peace, your least decisions to choose attack instead of love, unrecognized and swift to challenge YOU to combat and to violence far more inclusive than you think, are there by your election. Do not deny their presence, nor their terrible results. All that can BE denied is their REALITY, but NOT their outcome.
All that is ever cherished as a hidden belief, to be defended though unrecognized, is FAITH IN SPECIALNESS. This takes many forms, but ALWAYS clashes with the reality of God’s creation, and with the grandeur which He gave His Son. What else COULD justify attack? For who could hate someone whose Self is his, and which He KNOWS? Only the special COULD have enemies, for they are different, and NOT the same. And difference of ANY kind imposes orders of reality, and a need to judge that cannot BE escaped. What God created cannot be attacked, for there is nothing in the universe unlike itself.”
The Christian Religions (actually most religions) teach to become “ONE†with Christ (or God), in other words to accept Christ into their lives – BUT to do this, one must also recognize, and see, that Christ must then be in everyone and everything else. Specialness cannot exist. This is expressed in the main tenant of the “Courseâ€.
“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God.â€
God Blesses, Christ Blesses, We Bless, I Bless.
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