I will not fear to look within today.
Within me is eternal innocence, because it is God’s Will that it be there forever and forever. I, His Son, whose will is limitless as is His Own, can will no change in this. For to deny my Father’s Will is to deny my own. To look within is but to find my will as God created it, and as it is. I fear to look within because I think I made another will that is not true, and made it real. Yet it has no effects. Within me is the Holiness of God. Within me is the memory of Him.
The step I take today, my Father, is my sure release from idle dreams of sin. Your altar stands serene and undefiled. It is the holy altar to my Self, and there I find my true Identity. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 309, W-pII.309. See also ACIM Lesson 309 Insights.)
Our true Identity is God’s only begotten Son. This Identity cannot be changed because It remains one with God, united with His Will.
Our identity as a separate individual is an attempt to establish a separate will in opposition to the oneness of God’s Will. This separate identity could never be real, though our wish for separation makes it seem real. By God’s grace we cannot make a lie true. We cannot make separation real. By identifying with the ego belief in separation, we make God’s Will a threat to be feared. This is because the ego knows that God’s Will would dispel the ego’s pseudo will.
Acceptance of God’s Will as ours would be the end of the ego. The ego’s interpretation of this is that God’s Will demands sacrifice and so it is afraid. The idea of sacrifice, however, is the foundation of the ego thought system. It projects this perception on God.
In truth, the ego “sacrifices” the eternal Love of God in order to establish an illusion of a separate, private identity with a domain it calls its own. This little domain leaves us feeling loveless. To accept God’s Will, then, is to “sacrifice” lovelessness and accept the Love we are. To look within without fear is to recognize that we are eternal Love and nothing else.
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