And as we look upon a world forgiven, it is He Who calls to us and comes to take us home, reminding us of our Identity which our forgiveness has restored to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.8.5:4)
Our Identity, which God created one with Him, is eternal and changeless. To not know our eternal Identity, we must actively deny It. We have to continuously turn our back on Love and tell ourselves that we lack Love in order to maintain the illusion of separation.
When the Course tells us that we need do nothing, it is telling us that we need to stop actively denying our Identity. The moment we stop denying our Identity without reservation or exception, we will awaken to our oneness in Love, in God. The only reason we maintain our denial of Love is because we think there is something more valuable in the thought system of separation. Gently, patiently and steadily the Course is teaching us to recognize that this world truly offers us nothing we want, nothing of value.
Forgiveness comes as we recognize that what we thought we wanted in the world no longer has value to us. When we recognize that no one has to behave in a certain way for us to be happy, the behavior no longer has value to us — we have forgiven it. When we recognize that having a certain job, relationship, status or belongings has no value to us, we let those ideas go — we forgive them.
This is how we step back from denying our Identity and open the door to welcome the Truth of what we are. We accept our Identity and God welcomes us Home. God cannot accept the false identity we made up because it is inconceivable to Him. But He has always accepted the Identity of the Son He created, which we are. We are Love and nothing else.
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