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October-December, 2018

What Must I Sacrifice?

by Rev. Myron Jones, O.M.C.

What will I leave behind to accept my glory? What will I sacrifice? I will no longer gather, organize and decipher information in order to make a decision. That is my sacrifice. Instead, I will simply ask for an answer and it will occur intuitively without any effort on my part. At least that has been my experience when I have asked rather than trying to work out the answer on my own.

I will not be worried or anxious about life. Fear is what I will sacrifice. Instead, I will simply accept that what is occurring is in my best interest and in everyone else’s best interest. If I can’t see how that is true, I will ask for clarity, and never doubt or be concerned. I will accept the perfection of all things and simply wait for guidance on what to do next.

I will no longer look for guilt or accept it when it shows up in my mind. Guilt is what I will sacrifice. Instead, I will accept that the host to God could not be guilty. There is no place for guilt in God. If I think I am guilty or someone else is guilty, I must be confused and will simply ask for clarity until I see the truth.  With no guilt within or without, love will be all that is there to be seen and felt. My life now revolves around love rather than guilt. Instead of looking for the guilty party, I ask how it is that I can best extend love to each one that shows up in my life. This is so much better.

Nearly everyone on the earth thinks of himself/herself as alone, small, and fragile. This is not who we are. This body/personality self is an idea projected outward. It is an opportunity to play-act something that cannot happen in reality, like a child playing at being Batman or Superman.

Jesus is inviting us to remember that we are only play-acting this character and that, in reality, we are part of God, exactly like God in every way. In Lesson 326, Jesus says this about us as part of a beautiful prayer.

I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. As You created me I have remained. Where You established me I still abide. And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable.

Does this sound like the self you are presently identified with? In our unity, we are exactly like God, indistinguishable from God.

And now Jesus is telling us that he is here with us right now, and he is with us to teach us, to awaken us to our birthright. He is here to help us to accept our holiness and our grandeur. He says we can have this awareness when we stop clinging to our guilt and our littleness. All day today I have committed to living as if this were done. When I start to feel some concern for time or circumstance, I stop and rest a moment in God and remember that today I am living as an awakened Christ. I question if this is the response of an awakened being. It is going to be great fun!

Jesus says, “My birth in you is your awakening to grandeur.” Of course, he is not saying that the man, Jesus, is birthed in us, but as the Christ He is born in us and awakens us to grandeur. He goes on to say that his Kingdom is not of the world but is in us. In us! We are the Kingdom! So, yes, we remain far beyond the little self we pretend to be. Let us welcome our destiny and accept it now. Let us throw off guilt and with it fear and be the Divine Beings we were created. Now, this warrants a celebration of Thanksgiving!

Call forth in everyone only the remembrance of God, and of the Heaven that is in him.

This is the lesson that has been put before me, my present classroom. I have been called to notice and to choose. I notice my thoughts about the one before me, whoever that might be, and I choose what I am to believe about that one. Will I believe his story? Will I believe what he thinks about himself? Will I believe that his ego actions and words define him? Or will I call forth in him the remembrance of God?

Can you feel the power in those words? To call forth is to cause (something) to come into action or existence. You could interchange it with the words to activate, awaken, animate, arouse, enliven. When I call forth something in my brother, I awaken it in him, I cause it to come into existence!

This is one of my favorite passages from ACIM. “The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains.” My mind is a creative force. Belief and thought combine into a power surge. Dear God, let me always remember to give belief only to those thoughts that create what is eternally true in my brother!

For where you would have your brother be, there will you think you are.

What I know for my brother, I know for myself. What I call into existence for my brother, I call into existence for myself. So when a friend tells me how sick she is, let my mind slide harmlessly over the thought of sickness. Let me settle on the thought of health and linger there instead. When I see my brother acting foolishly, let my mind know only wisdom and l will know that the power that is in me will awaken wisdom in him and that is where I will see myself as well.

God’s power is forever on the side of His host, for it protects only the peace in which He dwells.

We are God’s Host and His power is forever in us protecting our peace. Let us remember this in all our comings and goings. Let us remember this indwelling power and use it wisely in protection of our brothers and ourselves by choosing carefully what we would believe and thus bring to life.

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