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3 In his complete identification with the Christ - the perfect Son of God, His one creation and His happiness, forever like Himself and one with Him - Jesus became what all of you must be. He led the way for you to follow him. He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him, and he followed it. He made a clear distinction, still obscure to you, between the false and true. He offered you a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God’s Son; nor can his life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear or death.
The statement that stands out to me is that Jesus made a clear distinction between the false and true. This is where we are all headed. It is the reason for the reading, the studying, the processes and practices. We want to learn to tell the difference between the false and the true. I notice this happening right now for me.
It was always happening but I didn’t see it so clearly before. I was still learning to see specific things differently, and that was my focus. That was good as it was an important step of the path, and helped me to eventually generalize these lessons. At first I had to notice that I was seeing everything as either guilty or innocent. Then I embraced the idea that I wanted to see everyone as innocent.
This step took a long time for me as I struggled with how to do this. No matter how hard I tried to do otherwise I was judging some people (especially myself) as guilty and then trying to see them as innocent. But I kept working on it (building my willingness) and eventually there was a shift and I realized that everyone is innocent and nothing they did could change that.
Then one day there was another shift. I realized that there is no such thing as guilt. Guilt is not real because there is no guilt in God. This changed everything. It was a clear distinction between false and true. I don’t know how this worked for Jesus, but I had to take it a step at a time. Since the shift has happened, I am seldom distracted by the “poof” of guilt that I see in the world.
Now, at this moment in time, I am certain that there is no guilt and so it is no longer hard for me to see innocence. I am still aware of guilt thoughts, but even when I am momentarily confused by one, I know that I am confused and I just wait for clarity. Because I am waiting for it, clarity comes quickly.
I think that even these brief moments of confusion are going to be short lived. How could it last when I have so little interest in guilt? Over and over as I read this section I am aware of the debt of gratitude I owe Jesus for blazing this trail, for getting here first and thus assuring that I would, too.
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