Today we will continue with the theme of happiness. This is a key idea
in understanding what salvation means. You still believe it asks for
suffering as penance for your “sins.”This is not so. Yet you must think
it so while you believe that sin is real, and that God’s Son can sin. If
sin is real then punishment is just, and cannot be escaped. Salvation
thus cannot be purchased but through suffering.
If sin is real then happiness must be illusion, for they cannot both be
true. The sinful warrant only death and pain, and it is this they ask
for, for they know it waits for them and it will seek them out and find
them somewhere, sometime, in some form which evens the account they owe
to God. They would escape Him in their fear. And yet He will pursue, and
they can not escape.
If sin is real salvation must be pain. Pain is the cost of sin, and
suffering can never be escaped if sin is real. Salvation must be feared,
for it will kill, but slowly, taking everything away before it grants
the welcome boon of death to victims who are little more than bones
before salvation is appeased. Its wrath is boundless, merciless, but
wholly just.
Who would seek out such savage punishment? Who would not flee salvation,
and attempt in every way he can to drown the Voice Which offers it to
him? Why would he try to listen, and accept Its offering? If sin is real
its offering is death, and meted out in cruel form to match the vicious
wishes in which sin is born. If sin is real salvation has become your
bitter enemy, the curse of God upon you who have crucified His Son.
You need the practice periods today. The exercises teach sin is not
real, and all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, for
it has no cause. Accept atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no
lingering belief that you have made a devil of God’s Son.
There is no sin. We practice with this thought as often as we can today,
because it is the basis for today’s idea. God’s Will for you is perfect
happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless.
Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself.
Fear not the Will of God. But turn to It in confidence that It will set
you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in
feverish imagination. Say:
“God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
There is no sin; it has no consequence.”
So should you start your practice periods, and then attempt again to
find the joy these thoughts will introduce into your mind. Give these
five minutes gladly, to remove the heavy load you laid upon yourself
with the insane belief that sin is real.
Today escape from madness. You are set on freedom’s road, and now today’s
idea brings wings to speed you on, and hope to go still faster to the
waiting goal of peace. There is no sin. Remember this today, and tell
yourself as often as you can:
“God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
This is the truth because there is no sin.”