A Function

 Your function is to show your brother sin can have no cause. 


 How futile must it be to see yourself a picture of the proof that what your function is can never be! 


The Holy Spirit's picture changes not the body into something it is not.  


It only takes away from it all signs of accusation and of blamefulness.  


Pictured without a purpose, it is seen as neither sick nor well, nor bad nor good.  No grounds are offered that it may be judged in any way at all.  


It has no life, but neither is it dead.  It stands apart from all experience of love or fear.  


For now it witnesses to nothing yet, its purpose being open, and the mind made free again to choose what it is for. 


 Now is it not condemned, but waiting for a purpose to be given, that it may fulfill the function that it will receive.

Appearances (From Joel Goldsmith)

To remedy this misconception of your relationship to God, the first thing that must be remembered is not to judge by appearances.

Do not judge by the fact that today you may be very ill or very poor, or that you may be entertaining sinful thoughts or even be committing a sin.

Do not judge from any of these things as to whether or not you are one with God.

All such conditions can tell you is that at a particular moment you have a sense of separation from God. It does not prove that you are not one with God.

The reason that you cannot feel any progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual.

There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

You can be honest or you can be moral, but you cannot feel it; you can just be it. There is no feeling about it, nor is there any feeling about being spiritual.

Being spiritual is a state of consciousness, which you are, but you have nothing to compare it with, since the “old man” is gone.

Need

Only the Holy Spirit knows what you need. For He will give you all things that do not block the way to light.

And what else could you need? In time, He gives you all the things that you need have, and will renew them as long as you have need of them.

He will take nothing from you as long as you have any need of it.

And yet He knows that everything you need is temporary, and will but last until you step aside from all your needs and realize that all of them have been fulfilled.

Therefore He has no investment in the things that He supplies, except to make certain that you will not use them on behalf of lingering in time.

He knows that you are not at home there, and He wills no delay to wait upon your joyous homecoming.

I place the future in the hands of God

Accept today's idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt.

Accept today's idea, and you have released the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it.

You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.

Delay

Delay is of the ego, because time is its concept.

Both time and delay are meaningless in eternity.

I have said before that the Holy Spirit is God's Answer to the ego.

Everything of which the Holy Spirit reminds you is in direct opposition to the ego's notions, because true and false perceptions are themselves opposed.

The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made.

He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change.

Each day

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me.


Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God's Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God's creation.


In Christ's sight, the world and God's creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears.


His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.


Father, Christ's vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose to be what I would look upon today.

Reality

Reality needs no cooperation from you to be itself.

But your awareness of it needs your help, because it is your choice.

Listen to what the ego says, and see what it directs you see, and it is sure that you will see yourself as tiny, vulnerable and afraid.

You will experience depression, a sense of worthlessness, and feelings of impermanence and unreality.

You will believe that you are helpless prey to forces far beyond your own control, and far more powerful than you.

And you will think the world you made directs your destiny. For this will be your faith.

But never believe because it is your faith it makes reality.

This Day

It needs but two who would have happiness this day to promise it to all the world.

It needs but two to understand that they cannot decide alone, to guarantee the joy they asked for will be wholly shared.

For they have understood the basic law that makes decision powerful, and gives it all effects that it will ever have.

It needs but two. These two are joined before there can be a decision.

Let this be the one reminder that you keep in mind, and you will have the day you want, and give it to the world by having it yourself.

Your judgment has been lifted from the world by your decision for a happy day.

And as you have received, so must you give.

Love and Guilt

Earlier, I said that the Holy Spirit shares the goal of all good teachers, whose ultimate aim is to make themselves unnecessary by teaching their pupils all they know.

The Holy Spirit wants only this, for sharing the Father's Love for His Son, He seeks to remove all guilt from his mind that he may remember his Father in peace.

Peace and guilt are antithetical, and the Father can be remembered only in peace.

Love and guilt cannot coexist, and to accept one is to deny the other. Guilt hides Christ from your sight, for it is the denial of the blamelessness of God's Son.

Realization ( From Joel Goldsmith

Your home is a composite of your consciousness of home. You are the doorkeeper of your household and you should stand guard at the door to see that nothing gets past that door which does not have the right to be there.

This door, however, is not a material door. The only door there is, is the door of consciousness, and the only door for which you are responsible is that door. What do you allow to get past your door, your consciousness? 

Do you accept contagion and infection as power in your home? Are you a party to discord and bickering? You should make it a matter of daily realization that nothing can enter the doorway of consciousness except the truth of being, and that no suggestion of human power, whether physical, material or mental, is law. 

Any belief that enters your home must first enter through your consciousness, and the truth of being in your consciousness will act as a law of annihilation to any false belief that would intrude.

Everything that comes within range of your consciousness will take on the nature and character of that consciousness. Your own life is not only affected by what gets past the door of your consciousness, but the life of everyone who has brought himself to your consciousness is affected, and that includes the members of your family and your community. 

 

All these look to you for bread; they look to you for the truth of being, but oftentimes your mind is so occupied with concern over your own discords and inharmonies that they are turned away without the divine substance which they sought from you.

 

 

Deep within every person is a hunger for the bread of life. Friends, relatives, and even acquaintances who find their way to your home ostensibly seeking companionship, supply, or any form of material good, even though from their point of view that may be their purpose, are in reality longing and craving for the true substance of life, the meat that perisheth not. 

 

If you give them money and give them that alone, if you give them your physical, human companionship, and give them that alone, you are giving them a stone: You are not giving them the bread of life; you are not lifting their state of consciousness. 

 

This you can do only in the degree that you are specifically entertaining the consciousness of truth within your being as they come to you:

       

 

"God is the substance and the activity of my home; God is the consciousness of every individual who enters my home, whether it is family or friends. Nothing enters my home to contaminate or violate its sanctity, because God is my only home. 

 

As long as my home appears on earth as a material structure, it will express the harmony of God." …

 

 

The Christ

The Christ in you remembers God with all the certainty with which He knows His Love.

But only if His Son is innocent can He be Love.

For God were fear indeed if he whom He created innocent could be a slave to guilt. God's perfect Son remembers his creation.

But in guilt he has forgotten what he really is.

The fear of God results as surely from the lesson that His Son is guilty as God's Love must be remembered when he learns his innocence.

Mankind

There is no challenge to a teacher of God.

Challenge implies doubt, and the trust on which God's teachers rest secure makes doubt impossible.

Therefore they can only succeed.  In this, as in all things, they are honest.

They can only succeed, because they never do their will alone.

They choose for all mankind; for all the world and all things in it; for the unchanging and unchangeable beyond appearances; and for the Son of God and his Creator.

How could they not succeed? 

They choose in perfect honesty, sure of their choice as of themselves.