V. The Denial of God, P 10
10 You do not realize how much you have denied yourself, and how much God, in His Love, would not have it so. Yet He would not interfere with you, because He would not know His Son if he were not free. To interfere with you would be to attack Himself, and God is not insane. When you deny Him you are insane. Would you have Him share your insanity? God will never cease to love His Son, and His Son will never cease to love Him. That was the condition of His Son’s creation, fixed forever in the Mind of God. To know that is sanity. To deny it is insanity. God gave Himself to you in your creation, and His gifts are eternal. Would you deny yourself to Him?
Journal
I used to think that if God really loved me, He would just wake me up, pull me from this dream and take me home. This thought was a fear thought, fear that I was trapped here and couldn’t get out on my own. I was frustrated and feeling like a victim of the world I made, and even a victim of my own stubborn denial. It seemed cruel that He would leave me stuck here when it would be so easy for Him to save me.
I can see how I used to mirror that thought in my behavior with other people. I would see them acting in a way that was self-destructive and I would try to save them from themselves. I used to think A Course in Miracles was for everyone and for them right now, and I would try to make them see this was true… for their own good. ~smile~ My behavior was just a reflection of my own fear that I couldn’t wake up on my own, and I needed someone (God) to do it for me. Maybe I was showing God how He should be waking me up.
When I tried to fix others I was saying that I didn’t trust them and didn’t believe in them, and that they are not free. And this was a reflection of how I felt about myself. God does not interfere in us because we are free. He does believe in us and He does trust us. He knows we are trustworthy and free because He created us like Himself. To think we are less than free, less than perfect, would be to think He is less than free and perfect and that would mean God is insane. He is not. We, however, are.
It is insane for a Divine being such as we are, to think we are helplessly trapped in an illusion of our own making. The mind that made this elaborate illusion is capable of using that same power to disentangle from it. God is not afraid for us, and so we should not be afraid either. God does want us to remain as He created us and so we will, and that means we are perfectly safe.
We are, however, suffering from the belief that we are not safe, that we are not wholly perfect and perfectly free. And as Jesus has pointed out, what we believe is true for us. Not true in reality, but true in our mind, so in our mind we suffer. God would not have us suffer, and so He calls us to Him. He calls us out of our insanity. We are reminded that, “God will never cease to love His Son, and His Son will never cease to love Him. That was the condition of His Son’s creation, fixed forever in the Mind of God.” I will remember this today, and I will return to sanity.
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