Day 86
15. IS EACH ONE TO BE JUDGED IN THE END?
1 Indeed, yes! No one can escape God’s Final Judgment. Who could flee forever from the truth? But the Final Judgment will not come until it is no longer associated with fear. One day each one will welcome it, and on that very day it will be given him. He will hear his sinlessness proclaimed around and around the world, setting it free as God’s Final Judgment on him is received. This is the Judgment in which salvation lies. This is the Judgment that will set him free. This is the Judgment in which all things are freed with him. Time pauses as eternity comes near, and silence lies across the world that everyone may hear this Judgment of the Son of God:
Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God. Where is the world, and where is sorrow now?
Jesus is describing a day of judgment that is very different than the one I learned about in church. He assures us that this day will come for each one of us, but it will not come until we are ready for it. It will not come until we can face it without fear.
It seems odd that we would have to let go of fear and prepare to be judged holy, eternal, free, whole, at peace and forever in the Heart of God. And yet, that is exactly what must happen. There is in us a deeply hidden reservoir of guilt, which expresses as anger, loss, depression, sickness, and death. This guilt and the fear that is part of it, prevent us from hearing, understanding and accepting God’s Final Judgment.
Sometimes I think about what will happen when I am unable to work. How will I live? Will my children be burdened by my care? Sometimes I feel fuzzy headed and then I wonder if I am going to get Alzheimer’s like my mom did. Is this how it started for her? I hear an ambulance and have a stab of fear as I wonder where my kids are.
These fears are the effect of not knowing that I am holy. I have been told that I am. The Course tells me over and over that I am very holy. It tells me that I am loved by God. It tells me that even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. It is obvious from my life that I don’t believe these things. When Jesus tells me that I am the ruler of my mind, of my world, of my destiny, it feels more like a threat than a promise.
As long as I turn from my Self, and pretend that I cannot be that One, I will be afraid to accept God’s judgment, and God will not give me what I do not want. So God’s Final Judgment waits on me to prepare myself to hear it.
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