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Study of Text, Chapter 11: VI: Waking to Redemption, P 4. 11-3-15

VI. Waking to Redemption P 4

Journal
To truly understand and accept my true nature, my complete safety and the absolute certainty of my return to God, it is necessary to accept that there is only God. I could not be separate from God because there is no separate from God. I will “return” to God because I never left. There is no time and so there is not a “time” I am not in God and part of God. In each moment, each eternal now, I am in God.

There is no will that is not God’s Will, so I am as He created me and nothing else could be true. I cannot have a will separate from God because there is no such thing. How could I be different from God and be in God? Clearly, something else is going on here. If only God is possible, then I must be part of God and in God and anything not in alignment with that truth, must not be real. I must be dreaming, surely. What I imagine to be real can only be an illusion.

This is all so self-evident when I sit here with my sweet brother, Jesus, and let him enlighten me about it. So why is it I still fall into the story and think that something is happening and it’s real and it matters, and I must do something about it? And what do I do about it? I call my story of Myron my life, but the truth is, if there were any such thing as death, this would be it. I am ready to resurrect from this pretense of death.

It is helping me to understand that within the vastness that is God, is Jesus. And within the vastness of Jesus, is me. And within the vastness of me, is every other brother. Whatever I believe about my brother, I therefore, must believe about myself. Whatever I believe about myself, I must believe about Jesus and about God.

I suppose that is why the thing most of us take from Jesus’ life is his pain and suffering in the crucifixion. We do that because we believe in pain and suffering and punishment. It is why we believed for so long, that God would sacrifice His Son for our sins. We believe in sacrifice and sin and retribution, so we believed it of God. But we are learning differently.

To be helpful to me now, I must reduce these lofty ideas to the level at which I find myself. Each time I see a brother, here is what I know.

When I meet anyone remember it is a holy encounter.
As you see him, I will see myself.
As I treat him, I will treat myself.
As I think of him, I will think of myself.
I never forget this, for in him I will find myself or lose myself.

In each encounter with a brother there is the potential for awakening, or for deepening my sleep. How I use that encounter is up to me, but the sheer potential for good is staggering. Holy Spirit, help me remember this, and help me let go of all nonsense that blocks this potential.

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