Lesson 99
Salvation is my only function here.
1. Salvation and forgiveness are the same. ²They both imply that something has gone wrong; something to be saved from, forgiven for; something amiss that needs corrective change; something apart or different from the Will of God. ³Thus do both terms imply a thing impossible but yet which has occurred, resulting in a state of conflict seen between what is and what could never be.
2. Truth and illusions both are equal now, for both have happened. ²The impossible becomes the thing you need forgiveness for, salvation from. ³Salvation now becomes the borderland between the truth and the illusion. ⁴It reflects the truth because it is the means by which you can escape illusions. ⁵Yet it is not yet the truth because it undoes what was never done.
3. How could there be a meeting place at all where earth and Heaven can be reconciled within a mind where both of them exist? ²The mind that sees illusions thinks them real. ³They have existence in that they are thoughts. ⁴And yet they are not real, because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separate from God.
4. What joins the separated mind and thoughts with Mind and Thought which are forever one? ²What plan could hold the truth inviolate, yet recognize the need illusions bring, and offer means by which they are undone without attack and with no touch of pain? ³What but a Thought of God could be this plan, by which the never done is overlooked, and sins forgotten which were never real?
5. The Holy Spirit holds this plan of God exactly as it was received of Him within the Mind of God and in your own. ²It is apart from time in that its Source is timeless. ³Yet it operates in time, because of your belief that time is real. ⁴Unshaken does the Holy Spirit look on what you see; on sin and pain and death, on grief and separation and on loss. ⁵Yet does He know one thing must still be true; God is still Love, and this is not His Will.
6. This is the Thought that brings illusions to the truth, and sees them as appearances behind which is the changeless and the sure. ²This is the Thought that saves and that forgives, because it lays no faith in what is not created by the only Source it knows. ³This is the Thought whose function is to save by giving you its function as your own. ⁴Salvation is your function, with the One to Whom the plan was given. ⁵Now are you entrusted with this plan, along with Him. ⁶He has one answer to appearances; regardless of their form, their size, their depth or any attribute they seem to have:
⁷Salvation is my only function here.
⁸God still is Love, and this is not His Will.
7. You who will yet work miracles, be sure you practice well the idea for today. ²Try to perceive the strength in what you say, for these are words in which your freedom lies. ³Your Father loves you. ⁴All the world of pain is not His Will. ⁵Forgive yourself the thought He wanted this for you. ⁶Then let the Thought with which He has replaced all your mistakes enter the darkened places of your mind that thought the thoughts that never were His Will.
8. This part belongs to God, as does the rest. ²It does not think its solitary thoughts, and make them real by hiding them from Him. ³Let in the light, and you will look upon no obstacle to what He wills for you. ⁴Open your secrets to His kindly light, and see how bright this light still shines in you.
9. Practice His Thought today, and let His light seek out and lighten up all darkened spots, and shine through them to join them to the rest. ²It is God’s Will your mind be one with His. ³It is God’s Will that He has but one Son. ⁴It is God’s Will that His one Son is you. ⁵Think of these things in practicing today, and start the lesson that we learn today with this instruction in the way of truth:
⁶Salvation is my only function here.
⁷Salvation and forgiveness are the same.
⁸Then turn to Him Who shares your function here, and let Him teach you what you need to learn to lay all fear aside, and know your Self as Love which has no opposite in you.
10. Forgive all thoughts which would oppose the truth of your completion, unity and peace. ²You cannot lose the gifts your Father gave. ³You do not want to be another self. ⁴You have no function that is not of God. ⁵Forgive yourself the one you think you made. ⁶Forgiveness and salvation are the same. ⁷Forgive what you have made and you are saved.
11. There is a special message for today which has the power to remove all forms of doubt and fear forever from your mind. ²If you are tempted to believe them true, remember that appearances can not withstand the truth these mighty words contain:
³Salvation is my only function here.
⁴God still is Love, and this is not His Will.
12. Your only function tells you you are one. ²Remind yourself of this between the times you give five minutes to be shared with Him Who shares God’s plan with you. ³Remind yourself:
⁴Salvation is my only function here.
⁵Thus do you lay forgiveness on your mind and let all fear be gently laid aside, that love may find its rightful place in you and show you that you are the Son of God.
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How could there be a meeting place at all where earth and Heaven can be reconciled within a mind where both of them exist? ²The mind that sees illusions thinks them real. ³They have existence in that they are thoughts. ⁴And yet they are not real, because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separate from God.\n\n4. What joins the separated mind and thoughts with Mind and Thought which are forever one? ²What plan could hold the truth inviolate, yet recognize the need illusions bring, and offer means by which they are undone without attack and with no touch of pain? ³What but a Thought of God could be this plan, by which the never done is overlooked, and sins forgotten which were never real?\n\n5. The Holy Spirit holds this plan of God exactly as it was received of Him within the Mind of God and in your own. ²It is apart from time in that its Source is timeless. ³Yet it operates in time, because of your belief that time is real. ⁴Unshaken does the Holy Spirit look on what you see; on sin and pain and death, on grief and separation and on loss. ⁵Yet does He know one thing must still be true; God is still Love, and this is not His Will.\n\n6. This is the Thought that brings illusions to the truth, and sees them as appearances behind which is the changeless and the sure. ²This is the Thought that saves and that forgives, because it lays no faith in what is not created by the only Source it knows. ³This is the Thought whose function is to save by giving you its function as your own. ⁴Salvation is your function, with the One to Whom the plan was given. ⁵Now are you entrusted with this plan, along with Him. ⁶He has one answer to appearances; regardless of their form, their size, their depth or any attribute they seem to have:\n\n⁷Salvation is my only function here.\n⁸God still is Love, and this is not His Will.\n\n7. You who will yet work miracles, be sure you practice well the idea for today. ²Try to perceive the strength in what you say, for these are words in which your freedom lies. ³Your Father loves you. ⁴All the world of pain is not His Will. ⁵Forgive yourself the thought He wanted this for you. ⁶Then let the Thought with which He has replaced all your mistakes enter the darkened places of your mind that thought the thoughts that never were His Will.\n\n8. This part belongs to God, as does the rest. ²It does not think its solitary thoughts, and make them real by hiding them from Him. ³Let in the light, and you will look upon no obstacle to what He wills for you. ⁴Open your secrets to His kindly light, and see how bright this light still shines in you.\n\n9. Practice His Thought today, and let His light seek out and lighten up all darkened spots, and shine through them to join them to the rest. ²It is God’s Will your mind be one with His. ³It is God’s Will that He has but one Son. ⁴It is God’s Will that His one Son is you. ⁵Think of these things in practicing today, and start the lesson that we learn today with this instruction in the way of truth:\n\n⁶Salvation is my only function here.\n⁷Salvation and forgiveness are the same.\n\n⁸Then turn to Him Who shares your function here, and let Him teach you what you need to learn to lay all fear aside, and know your Self as Love which has no opposite in you.\n\n10. Forgive all thoughts which would oppose the truth of your completion, unity and peace. ²You cannot lose the gifts your Father gave. ³You do not want to be another self. ⁴You have no function that is not of God. ⁵Forgive yourself the one you think you made. ⁶Forgiveness and salvation are the same. ⁷Forgive what you have made and you are saved.\n\n11. There is a special message for today which has the power to remove all forms of doubt and fear forever from your mind. ²If you are tempted to believe them true, remember that appearances can not withstand the truth these mighty words contain:\n\n³Salvation is my only function here.\n⁴God still is Love, and this is not His Will.\n\n12. Your only function tells you you are one. ²Remind yourself of this between the times you give five minutes to be shared with Him Who shares God’s plan with you. ³Remind yourself:\n\n⁴Salvation is my only function here.\n\n⁵Thus do you lay forgiveness on your mind and let all fear be gently laid aside, that love may find its rightful place in you and show you that you are the Son of God. \n\nhttps://acim.org/acim/lesson-99/salvation-is-my-only-function-here/en/s/503",
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