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The Reward of Forgiveness

[God’s plan for your salvation] is not of you, nor need you be concerned with anything except the part that has been given you to learn. ²For He Who knows the rest will see to it without your help. ³But think not that He does not need your part to help Him with the rest. ⁴For in your part lies all of it, without which is no part complete, nor is the whole completed without your part. ⁵The ark of peace is entered two by two,…

You may wonder how you can be at peace when, while you are in time, there is so much that must be done before the way to peace is open. ²Perhaps this seems impossible to you. ³But ask yourself if it is possible that God would have a plan for your salvation that does not work. ⁴Once you accept His plan as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you without your effort. ⁵He will go before you making straight your path, and leaving in your way no stones to trip on, and no obstacles to bar your way. ⁶Nothing you need will be denied you. ⁷Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it. ⁸You need take thought for nothing, careless of everything except the only purpose that you would fulfill. ⁹As that was given you, so will its fulfillment be. ¹⁰God’s guarantee will hold against all obstacles, for it rests on certainty and not contingency. ¹¹It rests on you. ¹²And what can be more certain than a Son of God? (A Course in Miracles, T-20.IV.6:1-5;8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Course says repeatedly, in many ways, that our only meaningful function in this world is to forgive. It is the means by which we free ourselves from the ego’s tyranny of denying Love, our inheritance. Forgiveness peals away the scales of fear and guilt so that Christ’s vision can show us the innocence of Love in every brother and ourselves. Through forgiveness we recognize our brother as part of us. We would no more want to disown our brother than to disown our Self. Yet that is what the ego does.

The reward for forgiving our brother and ourselves is our awakening to the certainty of our place in the Heart of God. We remember we are eternally safe. We welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance knowing He leads us straight Home to Love where we rest in perfect peace and overflow with the joy of Loving.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to see our brothers sinless and learn of our own innocence.

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