Trusting [the truth in] your brothers is essential to establishing and holding up your faith in your ability to transcend doubt and lack of sure conviction in yourself. When you attack [judge] a brother, you proclaim that he is limited by what you have perceived in him. You do not look beyond his errors. Rather, they are magnified, becoming blocks to your awareness of the Self that lies beyond your own mistakes, and past his seeming sins as well as yours.
Remove your focus on your brother’s sins, and you experience the peace that comes from faith in sinlessness.
We seek for innocence and nothing else.
…as our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. When seeing [innocence] is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 182, W-pI.182.1;2:5;3:5;8:3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)
The ego cannot see innocence because guilt is the foundation on which the seeming reality of separation is built. We cannot perceive guilt without judgment. Judgment is only possible when something is perceived as separate from us. Thus judgment is the ego’s chief defense against the oneness and innocence of God’s Love.
But we can learn to see the innocence that is the truth in every brother, including ourselves. It is already there to be seen. We just need to shift our focus. As we let the Holy Spirit help us focus on the innocence and Love that is the truth in our brother, we see with Christ’s vision. Now we can trust our brother because we are trusting in the changeless Love he is. Only Love is real. Trusting in God’s Love brings peace because It never changes.
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