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Study of Text, C 14: IV. Your Function in the Atonement, P 2. 3-28-17

IV. Your Function in the Atonement, P 2
2 You who belong to the First Cause, created by Him like unto Himself and part of Him, are more than merely guiltless. The state of guiltlessness is only the condition in which what is not there has been removed from the disordered mind that thought it was. This state, and only this, must you attain, with God beside you. For until you do, you will still think that you are separate from Him. You can perhaps feel His Presence next to you, but cannot know that you are one with Him. This cannot be taught. Learning applies only to the condition in which it happens of itself.

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Jesus says that we cannot learn through teaching that we are one with God. I can understand that. I read that we are one with God, and because of the source of that statement, I believe it. But believing it must be true because Jesus says it is true, is not the same thing as knowing it is true. It is not the same thing as feeling it. The way Jesus explains it makes sense; it is logical. But realizing this does not give me the felt experience of being in God if that is even the way to express it. So I can’t learn this. I can have it, though. I can have it because when the conditions are right, it will happen of itself.

My part to prepare for this, to make the conditions right, is to let myself be taught that I am guiltless, and so is everyone. That is plenty for me to do. At times, it seems so hard as to be impossible, and yet Jesus says he would never ask us to do what we could not do. It would seem to be easy when you think of it. God created me innocent and so that is what I must be. But then I get caught up in my story and the story seems to prove my guilt. With guilt comes fear and then helplessness and finally hopelessness. It is like trying to extricate myself from quicksand. The harder I fight it the deeper I sink into it.

I am not alone in this situation, and that is my salvation. God is with me through His Holy Spirit in my mind. I am helped and guided and healed as I give my attention to Him. I turn from the ego thoughts in my mind, and toward the Holy Spirit and He responds to even this slight desire for His help. As my call for help becomes stronger, I more quickly get out of the sticky mess guilt has me in. When that happens it feels like freedom! This is so simple you would think I was done with it by now.

All I have to do is accept the truth that guilt is not real and that we are innocent. There, it is done! Except that I still feel guilty and I still think I see guilt in others. When I witness a situation that seems to prove guilt, I have to let myself be backed out of it. I ask for help and then I begin to remember that the situation occurred not as proof that guilt is real, but as a result of the belief in my mind that guilt is real. The belief came first, then the situation.

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