Commentary on ACIM Lesson 156

©2010 Rev. David Seacord

 

 

I walk with God in perfect holiness.

 

 

To sum up....  "I will step back, RELAX AND RELEASE MY LIFE INTO GOD'S HANDS, TRUST HIM TO KNOW AND PROVIDE FOR MY 'NEEDS', GIVE UP DOUBTING I AM WORTHY OF BEING LOVED, and let Him lead the way". 

 

I am glad I lived today.  

 

Namaste, 

 

David

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My 'first person version'.  

 

 

 

Lesson 156

I walk with God in perfect holiness.

Today's idea simply states to me the truth that makes the thought of sin impossible. It promises me there is no cause for guilt, and that being causeless, it does not exist. This follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the text; that 'ideas leave not their source'. If this be true, then how can I be apart from God? How could I walk the world alone and separate from my Source?

This Course is not inconsistent in the thoughts that are presented in its curriculum. Truth must be true throughout, if it be true. It cannot contradict itself, nor be in parts uncertain and in others sure. I cannot walk the world apart from God, because I could not be without (or 'outside') Him. He IS what 'my life' is. Where I am He is. There is one life. That life I share with Him. Nothing can be apart from Him and be alive.

Yet where He is, there must be holiness as well as life. No attribute of His remains unshared by everything that lives. What lives is holy as Himself, because what shares His life is part of Holiness, and could no more be sinful than the sun could choose to be of ice; the sea elect to be apart from water, or the grass to grow with roots suspended in the air.

There is a light in me which cannot die; whose presence is so holy that the world is sanctified because of who I am as it's container. All things that live bring gifts to me, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at my feet. The scent of flowers is their gift to me. The waves bow down before me, and the trees extend their arms to shield me from the heat, and lay their leaves before me on the ground that I may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper round my holy head.

The light in me is what the universe longs to behold. All living things are still before this light, for they recognize Who walks with me. The light I carry is their own light too. And thus they see in me their own holiness, saluting me as a savior and as a Son of God. I accept their reverence, for it is due to Holiness Itself, which walks with me, transforming in Its gentle light all things unto Its likeness and Its purity.

This is the way salvation works. As I step back, the light in me steps forward and encompasses the world. It heralds not the end of sin in punishment and death. In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach to God Himself for such a senseless whim?

Yet I have wasted many, many years on just this foolish thought. The past is gone, with all its fantasies. They keep me bound no longer. The approach to God is near, and at hand. And in the little interval of doubt that still remains, I may perhaps (on occasion) lose sight of my Companion, and mistake Him for the senseless, ancient dream that now is only the past.

"Who walks with me?" This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. Today let doubting cease. God speaks for me in answering my question with these words:

I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me.