Think not that you can set a goal unlike God’s purpose for you, and establish it as changeless and eternal. You can give yourself a purpose that you do not have. But you can not remove the power to change your mind, and see another purpose there.
Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away. You were not born to die. You cannot change, because your function has been fixed by God. All other goals are set in time and change that time might be preserved, excepting one. Forgiveness does not aim at keeping time, but at its ending, when it has no use. Its purpose ended, it is gone. And where it once held seeming sway is now restored the function God established for His Son in full awareness. Time can set no end to its fulfillment nor its changelessness. There is no death because the living share the function their Creator gave to them. Life’s function cannot be to die. It must be life’s extension, that it be as one forever and forever, without end.
How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s Son! How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! And what a joyous thing it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place! Nor can it be forgot, in such a world, it is a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VI.3:4-4:11;6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
God gave His Son one purpose, to extend His Love. That is our only true purpose in the world. The ego, in its quest for specialness, made up an alternative to the Self that God created one with Himself. The purpose of this false self is to reinforce the belief in separation, which is necessary to support the appearance of specialness.
The ego uses numerous mechanisms to support its purpose. Perhaps the one least obvious is time. Only in time does it seems possible to have a past or future different from the present. Time provides the means to overlook the Love that is always in the present and thus supports the separation that is essential to keeping the ego as the dictator of our experience.
But we can choose to use time for a different purpose. Willingness to choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide lets Him help us use time to forgive our past and let the presence of Love in the now moment dawn upon our minds. We are free to use this purpose instead of the ego’s. We are free to choose Love instead of the guilt and fear the ego thrives on. We are free to choose the Life we live in Love instead of the ego’s wish for death.
We choose Life today by choosing to accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance in all our perceptions throughout the day. Thus we choose to be as God created us.
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