Day 165

Today's Lesson:

Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.

What makes this world seem real except our own denial of the truth that lies beyond? What but our thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the eternal life our Father wills for us? And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion? What could keep from us what we already have except our choice to see it not denying it is there?

The Thought of God created us. It left us not, nor have we ever been apart from it an instant. It belongs to us. By it we live. It is our Source of life, holding us one with it, and everything is one with us because it left us not. The Thought of God protects us, cares for us, makes soft our resting place and smooth our way, lighting our minds with happiness and love. Eternity and everlasting life shine in our minds, because the Thought of God has left us not, and still abides with us.

Who would deny his safety and his peace, his joy, his healing and his peace of mind, his quiet rest, his calm awakening, if he but recognized where they abide? Would he not instantly prepare to go where they are found, abandoning all else as worthless in comparison with them? And having found them, would he not make sure they stay with him, and he remain with them?

Deny not Heaven. It is ours today, but for the asking. Nor need we perceive how great the gift, how changed our minds will be before it comes to us. Ask to receive, and it is given us. Conviction lies within it. Till we welcome it as ours, uncertainty remains. Yet God is fair. Sureness is not required to receive what only our acceptance can bestow.

Ask with desire. We need not be sure that we request the only thing we want. But when we have received, we will be sure we have the treasure we have always sought. What would we then exchange for it? What would induce us now to let it fade away from our ecstatic vision? For this sight proves that we have exchanged our blindness for the seeing eyes of Christ; our minds have come to lay side denial, and accept the Thought of God as our inheritance.

Now is all doubting past, the journey's end made certain, and salvation given us. Now is Christ's power in our mind, to heal as we were healed. For now we are among the saviors of the world. Our destiny lies there and nowhere else. Would God consent to let His Son remain forever starved by his denial of the nourishment he needs to live? Abundance dwells in him, and deprivation cannot cut him off from God's sustaining Love and from his home.

Practice today in hope. For hope indeed is justified. Our doubts are meaningless, for God is certain. And the Thought of Him is never absent. Sureness must abide within us who are host to Him. This course removes all doubts which we have interposed between Him and our certainty of Him.

We count on God, and not upon ourselves, to give us certainty. And in His Name we practice as His Word directs we do. His sureness lies beyond our every doubt. His Love remains beyond our every fear. The Thought of Him is still beyond all dreams and in our minds, according to His Will.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I'm off to spend the day at a seminar with Bob Proctor AND Michael Beckwith. That's surely a miracle!