The Decision for Guiltlessness
Selections from Chapter 14
Posted by aplecompte on July 16th, 2009
You who are steadfastly devoted to misery must first recognize that you are miserable and not happy. The Holy Spirit says, with steadfast quietness: The truth is true. Nothing else matters, nothing else is real, and everything beside it is not there. Let Me make the one distinction for you that you cannot make, but need to learn. Your faith in nothing is deceiving you.
Whenever you choose to make decisions for yourself you are thinking destructively, and the decision will be wrong. Seek not to appraise the worth of God's Son whom He created holy, for to do so is to evaluate his Father and judge against Him. And you will feel guilty for this imagined crime, which no one in this world or Heaven could possibly commit. The Holy Spirit teaches only that the "sin" of self-replacement on the throne of God is not a source of guilt. What cannot happen can have no effects to fear. Be quiet in your faith in Him Who loves you, and would lead you out of insanity. Never forget the Love of God.
You must give everything you have learned to the Holy Spirit, to be unlearned for you. You are whole only in your guiltlessness, and only in your guiltlessness can you be happy. Say to yourself gently, but with the conviction: I would accept my guiltlessness by making it manifest and sharing it. Let me bring peace to God's Son from his Father.
When you teach anyone that truth is true, you learn it with him. Each day, each hour and minute, even each second, you are deciding between the crucifixion and the resurrection; between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness. The power of decision is all that is yours.
The miracle teaches you that you have chosen guiltlessness, freedom and joy. It is not a cause, but an effect. It is the natural result of choosing right, attesting to your happiness that comes from choosing to be free of guilt.
The way to teach this simple lesson is merely this: Guiltlessness is invulnerability. Therefore, make your invulnerability manifest to everyone. Teach him that, whatever he may try to do to you, your perfect freedom from the belief that you can be harmed shows him that he is guiltless. He can do nothing that can hurt you, and by refusing to allow him to think he can, you teach him that the [the correction of thought], which you have accepted for yourself, is also his. There is nothing to forgive. No one can hurt the Son of God. His guilt is wholly without cause, and being without cause, cannot exist. Teach no one he has hurt you. Everyone you offer healing to returns it.
Ask the Holy Spirit everything, and leave all decisions to His gentle counsel. The Holy Spirit knows that all salvation is escape from guilt. Let Him, therefore, be the only Guide that you would follow to salvation. He knows the way, and leads you gladly on it. With Him you will not fail to learn that what God wills for you is your will.
Say to the Holy Spirit only, "Decide for me," and it is done. All knowledge lies behind every decision the Holy Spirit makes for you. Learn of His wisdom and His Love, and teach His answer to everyone who struggles in the dark. For you decide for them and for yourself. Trust Him to answer quickly, surely, and with Love for everyone who will be touched in any way by the decision. And everyone will be.
Whenever you are in doubt what you should do, think of His Presence in you, and tell yourself this, and only this: He leadeth me and knows the way, which I know not. And I trust Him to communicate to me.
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