Living A Course in Miracles — Opening to Receive God’s Gift of Love

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Opening to Receive God’s Gift of Love

Yet the essential thing is learning that you do not know. ²Knowledge is power, and all power is of God. ³You who have tried to keep power for yourself have “lost” it. ⁴You still have the power, but you have interposed so much between it and your awareness of it that you cannot use it. ⁵Everything you have taught yourself has made your power more and more obscure to you. …⁹Yet all that stands between you and the power of God in you is but your learning of the false, and of your attempts to undo the true.

⁵Learn of His happiness, which is yours. ⁶But to accomplish this, all your dark lessons must be brought willingly to truth, and joyously laid down by hands open to receive, not closed to take. ⁷Every dark lesson that you bring to Him Who teaches light He will accept from you, because you do not want it. ⁸And He will gladly exchange each one for the bright lesson He has learned for you. ⁹Never believe that any lesson you have learned apart from Him means anything.

You have one test, as sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true. ²If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God’s lesson, and not your own. ³Unless all this is true, there are dark lessons in your mind that hurt and hinder you, and everyone around you. ⁴The absence of perfect peace means but one thing: You think you do not will for God’s Son what his Father wills for him. ⁵Every dark lesson teaches this, in one form or another. ⁶And each bright lesson with which the Holy Spirit will replace the dark ones you do not accept, teaches you that you will with the Father and His Son. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.XI.1:1-5,9;4:5–5:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

While we believe we are a body with a separate identity, we are dreaming we are in a fearful world that denies the Reality of God’s limitless eternal Love. It is an attempt to keep power for ourselves alone. But to know our real power, we must accept God’s Will, which is to share all that He is with all. Only in accepting His Gift of all of Himself can we experience His perfect peace and happiness.

If we are not in perfect peace, it is a sure sign that we are rejecting our Father’s Gifts. We need to recognize that we believing in a false idea of our identity. It is time to offer that false idea to Him, and open our heart and mind to receive His gift of universal Love for all that is.

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