III. The Decision for Guiltlessness, P 4
4 Each day, each hour and minute, even each second, you are deciding between the crucifixion and the resurrection; between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness. The power of decision is all that is yours. What you can decide between is fixed, because there are no alternatives except truth and illusion. And there is no overlap between them, because they are opposites which cannot be reconciled and cannot both be true. You are guilty or guiltless, bound or free, unhappy or happy.
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Very clearly, our belief in guilt is our problem, the reason we are bound to the illusion and the reason we are unhappy. We can be free of the illusion and free to remember who we are and where we are. We are free to remember the thoughts we think with God. All of this is ours simply by giving up guilt. Jesus tells us two very important things to help us do this.
First he tells us that guilt is a choice. We choose either ego (guilt) or Holy Spirit (guiltlessness) and we do this moment to moment. In chapter 30 he is going to give us a set of rules to help us make this decision. In it he tells us, as he does here, that we make decisions continuously. This means we are always, in every second, deciding on Heaven or hell.
Just as he does here, he also tells us that our alternatives are fixed. There are only two, truth and illusion. He also tells us in Chapter 30 that all decisions are made in union so we must decide whom we will make that decision with. There are only two choices. We will choose either Holy Spirit or ego. How merciful is this necessary limit. How simple it makes our choosing.
There is nothing in between. We cannot choose alone, and we cannot choose something besides the truth or illusion. We cannot choose a little of both. We think we can and that is why we are still dreaming. We think we can love everyone except… fill in the blank here. We think that we are innocent of everything except that one really bad sin. We think the little stuff doesn’t matter, but the little stuff is just symbolic of the one thing. We think we can join with Spirit most of the time or when it is really important, and keep the other decisions for ourselves.
None of this will work. It is an all or nothing choice. Choose God and you choose happiness, love, joy, peace; choose God and you choose Heaven. Choose ego in any way or for any reason and you choose the hell of believing you are separate from God. You choose the effects, which are anger, fear, guilt, depression, jealousy, and every other unhappy effect you can imagine. Your choice will smother you in pain, suffering and finally death.
You have the power of decision. In every second you are making this choice. What will it be, guilt, or guiltlessness?
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