Commentary on ACIM Lesson 311

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

It matters not what you or I believe to be true.... it only matters what is actually true. And the only journey that we are really on is the one committed to discovering THAT, the actual truth, in the only place we can possibly know it, within our own being.

Can you or I know anything outside of our own being? Try to know something that you do not know within yourself. Is it not obviously impossible? Why then do we have suffering in our lives? I suggest only due to an identity confusion about who 'our own being' is.

This Course is a weaning course, full of forgiveness and grace, quite compassionate and accepting of our errors and foolishness, but always nevertheless, extricating us from level upon level of false beliefs about our existence, who we are, why we are here. We continually discover we are not our beliefs until we have 'no beliefs before God' left. By this point we have been prepared to receive direct revelation, and be used fully, for no 'I' remains to argue for it's imagined reality.

I, like you, find my weaning continues, in a perfect dance with my willingness to accept only God as my reality. If I set up other gods before the alter of my heart, my heart goes into suffering from a lack of love blood. I am glad for this, for thus I know I have chosen poorly, and that to leave suffering, I must choose again.

Therefore, I am mightily grateful for certain lines in todays lesson.... in particular, "Do not be afraid of Love".

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 311

Section 10. What is the Last Judgment?

Christ's Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: to hear the Voice for God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is true has never changed. And this the judgment is in which perception ends. At first you see a world that has accepted this as true, projected from a now corrected mind. And with this holy sight, perception gives a silent blessing and then disappears, its goal accomplished and its mission done.

The final judgment on the world contains no condemnation. For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposeless. Without a cause, and now without a function in Christ's sight, it merely slips away to nothingness. There it was born, and there it ends as well. And all the figures in the dream in which the world began go with it. Bodies now are useless, and will therefore fade away, because the Son of God is limitless.

You who believed that God's Last Judgment would condemn the world to hell along with you, accept this holy truth: God's Judgment is the gift of the Correction He bestowed on all your errors, freeing you from them, and all effects they ever seemed to have. To fear God's saving grace is but to fear complete release from suffering, return to peace, security and happiness, and union with your own Identity.

God's Final Judgment is as merciful as every step in His appointed plan to bless His Son, and call him to return to the eternal peace He shares with him. Be not afraid of love. For it alone can heal all sorrow, wipe away all tears, and gently waken from his dream of pain the Son whom God acknowledges as His. Be not afraid of this. Salvation asks you give it welcome. And the world awaits your glad acceptance, which will set it free.

This is God's Final Judgment: "You are still My holy Son, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore awaken and return to Me. I am your Father and you are My Son."

Lesson 311

I judge all things as I would have them be.

Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. And then it makes of it what you would have it be. It judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely. Let us not use it today, but make a gift of it to Him Who has a different use for it. He will relieve us of the agony of all the judgments we have made against ourselves, and re-establish peace of mind by giving us God's Judgment of His Son.

Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgment of the Son You love. We do not know him, and we cannot judge. And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your Son must be.