January-March, 2005
True freedom is the “Freedom of eternal Truth” and as we all know, God is the Author of Truth. God created us in His image and likeness. He created us in His Reality with His Divine attributes. We, as His children in Truth, are blessed with His attributes, one of which is unlimited freedom. To know and experience our freedom in Truth, we must first realize and accept the Truth of God as our existence now. Once we have accepted the undeniable Truth, we then devote ourselves to living in a way that honors Its expression in all that we think, say and do. This is the way of Christ.
Look at the glorious demonstration of our holy brother Christ Jesus. Listen to his words: “I am the Way, I am the Truth.” “No one comes unto the Father except by me.” That does not mean we all need to drop to our knees and beg for his intervention to win us acceptance into the Kingdom. As we exist in Truth, we are the Kingdom. He is saying that if we want to know and experience what God created for us and us for, this is the way. We awaken to the Truth and experience Its presence by living according to the Laws that govern It. Unlike the laws, written and unwritten, of this world, the “Laws of God” are not in place to control us. They are set in place to honor our existence as He created us. The “Laws of God” guarantee our oneness with Him, in Him, eternally. As I honor my eternal existence as one with God, the Laws of His Reality function in my daily living and demonstrate His holy presence in my existence here and now.
Generally speaking in this world, America is thought of as the protector and guarantor of freedom for human kind. Yet if we visit the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., we will see thousands of volumes filled with one legal limitation after another upon the freedom America supposedly protects and guarantees. It is true that America was founded on the ideal of truth that we are created with certain rights given by the Creator. However, to know the fulfillment of our God given rights, we must live according to the laws that established them — the Laws of God and His eternal Kingdom. If I place my faith in America to guarantee my freedom, I am in fact denying the Truth that God is the Author of my freedom and that it is already mine eternally.
As I compose this article, it is the time of year in which we celebrate the advent of the Prince of Peace into the world. It is the joyous season of Christmas in which we all hope and pray that peace will indeed cover the earth. Peace, true peace, is indeed a condition we experience in God’s gift of freedom. However, look at the law the world uses to establish peace on earth. If we maintain the most powerful military in the world with the most fearsome weapons, no one would dare attack us. Who cannot see the utter insanity of that thought? The only thing overwhelming threat has ever guaranteed is fear and endless conflict. A Course in Miracles teaches us that our only responsibility is to accept Atonement for ourselves. Accepting Atonement is accepting responsibility for our experience of our holy relationship with God. It is accepting the Reality of Christ, the Prince of Peace, as our existence here and now. “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.” If we truly want peace on earth, the peace of true freedom, it is up to each and every one of us to accept the Gift of God, the Reality of Christ as our existence and live according to Its Laws here and now.
As I devote myself to living according to the Laws of God in my daily life, the ego floods my mind with images of struggle, suffering, sacrifice and even death, should I be ‘foolish’ enough to continue in my devotion. This is when I need to offer my unequivocal trust to God and His Will for me. As I do, the Holy Spirit fills my mind with the awareness of absolute freedom, the Love and peace of Christ and says, “This is the Gift of God, your eternal Life, one with Him and His Holy Son.” I am reminded that I have to choose if I will honor Truth or illusion, Heaven or hell, God or the ego. If I want to be the Truth that God created me to be, I must accept His Thoughts absolutely to the total exclusion of the world’s (the ego’s) thought system.
This is the time of Christ, the holy season of Christ-mass. Let us all accept our oneness with God and His holy Son offering His Love, peace and freedom to all of His children each and every day. In this way we do our part in establishing His peace on earth, giving Him dominion over all things. As we live in God’s freedom, being and offering the Love of Christ to all of Creation, we will truly rejoice and know “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
Rev. Erin Lawson is a Pathways of Light minister living in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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