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Study of Manual for Teachers 4-23-12

Day 113
19. WHAT IS JUSTICE?
1 Justice is the divine correction for injustice. Injustice is the basis for all the judgments of the world. Justice corrects the interpretations to which injustice gives rise, and cancels them out. Neither justice nor injustice exists in Heaven, for error is impossible and correction meaningless. In this world, however, forgiveness depends on justice, since all attack can only be unjust. Justice is the Holy Spirit’s verdict upon the world. Except in His judgment justice is impossible, for no one in the world is capable of making only just interpretations and laying all injustices aside. If God’s Son were fairly judged, there would be no need for salvation. The thought of separation would have been forever inconceivable.

The ego is absolutely certain that life is unfair. I hear these thoughts that seem to prove injustice exists. Some of them I have believed myself.
  I work hard, and my lazy neighbor gets taken care of by my tax dollars.
  I was a good wife/husband and look what it got me.
  I suffered to bring that ungrateful child into the world.
  I didn’t do anything wrong and I got blamed anyway.
  I work and work on healing my mind and then this joker gets a spontaneous awakening for which he does nothing. How is that fair?

Looking at appearances it seems apparent that life is unjust. And if I use my ego thinking mind to judge what I see I will always come down on the side of injustice. This is why I was given the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, which does not see separate people struggling against each other, but sees only one Son of God waking up, judges truly.

I was reading in NTI on this very thing. Here is a passage that helped me to grasp this idea more strongly.

  You may trust in your brothers’ perfection and lay your judgments aside, and that will be to accept my invitation. Or you may be distracted by your judgments and choose to trust them instead. It is your choice.

It is so simple, isn’t it? I have the thought that a circumstance is unjust. I ask to see this differently and the Holy Spirit reminds me that my brother is perfect as he was created by God, that my brother is innocent as am I. Immediately I feel better, because now I am resting in the truth that I am not split off, but whole.

But then I think about the situation again and become distracted by my judgments, and if I think, I will always judge because that is what thinking was made for. I can return to peace and to truth only by letting go of my thinking and welcoming knowledge. That is why Jesus tells us that only the Holy Spirit can show us justice. He says,

  … for no one in the world is capable of making only just interpretations and laying all injustices aside.

There is no reason to feel guilty for our interpretations, because as he says here, we are not capable of doing otherwise. What we can do is rightly discount the judgmental thoughts in our mind and ask for an interpretation of One Who can judge truly. And when we become distracted by the judgments, return once again to the truth. The one thing that is true is that we are all innocent, and there is no injustice, just the appearance of injustice.

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