ACIM Lesson 329 I have already chosen what You will.
Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. ²Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending.
I have already chosen what You will.
ACIM Lesson 329
I have already chosen what You will.
1. Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. ²Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending. ³This am I, and this will never change. ⁴As You are One, so am I one with You. ⁵And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one with Yours. ⁶That choice was made for all eternity. ⁷It cannot change, and be in opposition to itself. ⁸Father, my will is Yours. ⁹And I am safe, untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it be so.
2. Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source. ²We have no will apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will is shared by all of us. ³Through it we recognize that we are one. ⁴Through it we find our way at last to God.
The Strange Idea
This lesson is another way of reinforcing what Jesus tells us throughout the Course. We are in God, have never left God. This world and these lives are just ancient memories that occurred for an instant. They were corrected by the Holy Spirit the moment they were thought. I used to think this was such a strange idea and very hard to believe. Now I think that believing we have overcome the Will of God and become something He did not create is the strange idea. How could we ever believe that was possible?
The Ego Has no Power
The only thing that keeps me from living even here in endless joy is the lingering belief in the power of the ego. And yet, I know this cannot be. In lesson 73, Jesus assures us it is not true. ⁶Today it is the ego that stands powerless before your will. ⁷Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it. (ACIM, W-73.7:6-7) I still feel the pull of ego thinking sometimes. However, I know that it cannot keep me and so I quickly free myself.
Once I had cleared my mind enough to accept what I am, it would scare me when I would get pulled back into a story. But each time it happened, I would remember that this life is just a strange memory and not reality. This helped me to shake myself loose from it. I forgave the false belief that I could be powerless against a lie.
Endless Joy
Releasing the idea of a will separate from God is my purpose; it is why I am here. As Jesus says: ⁶That choice was made for all eternity. That we all share that same Will is what makes us One with each other and with God. And I am grateful it is so because the Will of God that is also my will is how I find my way back to God. It is why I cannot be forever lost in my mind dreaming stories of suffering and death. My reality is endless joy because that is the Will of God.
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