The idea for today [My only function is the one God gave me] reaffirms your commitment to salvation. It also reminds you that you have no function other than that. Both these thoughts are obviously necessary for a total commitment. Salvation cannot be the only purpose you hold while you still cherish others. The full acceptance of salvation as your only function necessarily entails two phases; the recognition of salvation as your function, and the relinquishment of all the other goals you have invented for yourself.
Today’s idea offers you escape from all your perceived difficulties. It places the key to the door of peace, which you have closed upon yourself, in your own hands. It gives you the answer to all the searching you have done since time began. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 65, W-pI.65.1;3:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 65 Insights.)
The world we experience and see through the body’s eyes is a made up-virtual reality. By definition, a virtual reality is an illusion of reality. It is a substitute for the true Reality that is ours as God’s Creation. This virtual reality only seems to affect us if we believe that this substitute is real. Given this belief, we react to all that seems to happen in this substitute reality as if it were real.
We have been given a function by our Creator that will help us withdraw our belief in the substitute reality. This function will relieve us of all the conflict, guilt, fear and loneliness that is inherent in the substitute reality. The function is very simple. It is to let go of identifying with the false reality and be willing to accept our true Reality instead.
We accept the function given us by God by offering all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to have our illusions of purpose be replaced by Truth. We need to be vigilant in the practice of turning over our perceptions to the Holy Spirit, Who will purify them and return to us the vision of Truth that looks beyond the substitute appearances of the world.
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