Today’s idea is merely another way of saying “Let me not wander into temptation.” The purpose of the world you see is to obscure your function of forgiveness, and provide you with a justification for forgetting it. [The world] is the temptation to abandon God and His Son by taking on a physical appearance. It is this the body’s eyes look upon.
Nothing the body’s eyes seem to see can be anything but a form of temptation, since this was the purpose of the body itself. Yet we have learned that the Holy Spirit has another use for all the illusions you have made, and therefore He sees another purpose in them. To the Holy Spirit, the world is a place where you learn to forgive yourself what you think of as your sins. In this perception, the physical appearance of temptation becomes the spiritual recognition of salvation.”
…every time you choose whether or not to fulfill your function, you are really choosing whether or not to be happy.
Let me not forget my function.
Let me not try to substitute mine for God’s.
Let me forgive and be happy. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 64, W-pI.64.1-2;4:4;6:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.)
We give the world the Holy Spirit’s purpose by practicing bringing all our perceptions to Him for His interpretation on our behalf. We need to do this practice diligently because we have been accustomed to accepting the ego’s purpose for the world. With the ego as our guide, the world confirms the ego belief that we are separate, isolated and lacking Love.
When we let the Holy Spirit be our Guide for all our perceptions, the world becomes a practice in forgiveness. We learn to see past our brother’s bodies to the one loving Self we share with everyone. It becomes a spiritual recognition of our wholeness in Spirit. When we reach the point where we make no exceptions to the Holy Spirit’s perceptions, the ego fades into the nothingness from which it came. We no longer support the belief in separation. We accept the Love we are and live in a state of joy at Home in Heaven.
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