Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you. His Holiness is yours because He is the only power that is real in you. His strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.
The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. For what appears to hide the face of Christ is powerless before His majesty, and disappears before His holy sight. The saviors of the world, who see like Him, are merely those who choose His strength instead of their own weakness, seen apart from Him. They will redeem the world, for they are joined in all the power of the Will of God. And what they will is only what He wills. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.3-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The strength and vision of Christ are ever present in our mind. But we are unaware of Christ’s presence when we choose the ego as our guide. By the grace of God, we are always free to choose the Christ within instead of the ego. Christ sees only the face of Christ in everyone. We claim this vision through our acceptance of it.
“To accept Christ into our life” means to choose to see as He sees, to be the Love that God created us to be. Our savior is already within us. It is not about the man, Jesus. He was the demonstration of one who accepted the Christ in him wholeheartedly. Like an elder brother, we can use His example to show us what we already have and simply need to choose to accept. No one has an exclusive right to claim Christ. Everyone has the universal option to choose to see the innocence of Love in everyone — to see the face of Christ. This choice is our salvation and the salvation of the world.
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