LESSON 74
There is no will but God’s.
“The idea for today can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. God’s is the only Will.”
Acknowledging this is the way to perfect peace. For instance, if I have the thought that I need more money, I know this is not a real thought because it is not the will of God that I experience lack in any way. It doesn’t mean I can’t experience lack. If I believe in lack that is what I will know.
What it does mean is that I have accepted a conflicting thought as if it is true, but I can change my mind. If I know that God’s Will is abundance and if I know that His is the only Will, then I know my will is abundance as well, and abundance will be my only experience. Even if I seem not to have money, my mind will interpret the situation differently and it won’t feel like poverty.
Even more importantly, is the realization that since there is only God’s Will, what has been made with the ego mind cannot exist because it is not God’s Will. And, since there is only God’s Will, the world cannot exist for me, either, because I cannot have a will apart from the only will that exists and so I could not have willed this world into existence.
When I look at this computer and the fingers on the keyboard and the words appearing on the screen, I realize this is not happening. It could not happen because it is not God’s Will that I be separate from Him.
And yet, since I see myself here, I am grateful that what does not exist is being used to bring me to this realization. As I take in the truth that the idea of Myron is an illusion, I feel happier within the illusion. Is that strange? Maybe not. Maybe it is like enjoying acting in a play, or enjoying an interesting book. It would stop being fun if I forgot I was acting or reading and thought it was happening to me. I want to remember that only God’s Will exists and God’s Will is my will. How different this life will seem, then.
Regina’s Tips for this lesson.
God’s will is what you are, life-awareness-intelligence-open-freedom. You are that, and in being that you are God’s will.
The funny thing is, you can’t stop being that (even though you can deny you are that), so you can’t stop being God’s will.
You are God’s will.
My Thoughts
I know that this must have been a little scary or unbelievable at one time, but now I love these words. I long for them to be all that I believe. Mostly they are, but not entirely. I mean, I believe they are true, but I still act as if they are not. For instance, when I am afraid for myself or someone else, I obviously think that I am separate from God’s Will.
More from Regina
This is the same teaching that we find in NTI 1 Thessalonians:
“When fear intrudes on peace, you will hear it if you are listening. There will seem to be a slight upset, a stab thrust upon your peace, and an immediate desire to deny the thought or feeling that has intruded on your peace. … Do not accept temptation to deny the interruptions to peace. Pick them up and look at them in joy. For you have recognized that which you were tempted to deny. Do not deny the thought that has occurred, and do not accept it. Set it aside because it is not true. And continue joyously on the path of peace.”
Today’s workbook lesson and NTI 1 Thessalonians outline the practice that heals our mind.
1. Look at it.
2. Let it go.
And if you do that with joy or with the heart, it will be twice as effective.
My Thoughts
I have used this method for a long time. I look at it and let it go. However, I did not always do so in joy. I used to do it as if it was the hardest thing ever and as if I could possibly fail and that I might fail and then I would surely be condemned. Joy is much better. ~smile~ I do it in confidence now, knowing that I cannot fail in what is the Will of God and is my will.
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