LESSON 320. My Father gives all power unto me.
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LESSON 320. My Father gives all power unto me.
The Son of God is limitless. There are no limits on his strength, his peace, his
joy, nor any attributes his Father gave in his creation. What he wills with his
Creator and Redeemer must be done. His holy will can never be denied, because
his Father shines upon his mind, and lays before it all the strength and love in
earth and Heaven. I am he to whom all this is given. I am he in whom the power
of my Father's Will abides.
<Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world as well
through me. There is no limit on Your Will. And so all power has been given to
Your Son.>
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Below, is from Kenneth Wapnick's commentaries on this lesson, from "Journey
Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles," which can be purchased at the
following site: ~ M. Street.
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LESSON 320. "My Father gives all power unto me."
*This statement is another reinterpretation of a biblical saying referred to in
A Course in Miracles. In the New Testament, Jesus says "All power is given unto
me in earth and heaven (Matthew 28:18), which means God gave Jesus all power,
<not anyone else>. His is the power because he is God's Son. In the Course,
Jesus says that God does indeed give all power unto His Son, but we <are all His
Sons>. At the beginning of this lesson, Jesus refers to the limitlessness of the
Son of God, yet in the ego's Christian thought system the Sonship of God is
limited, for there is only one true Son: the rest of us are adopted (Ephesians
1:5). We accept this second-class condition as true and project it out, seeing
everyone as more limited than we -- the specialness that is at the core of the
ego's power.*
(1:1-4) "The Son of God is limitless. There are no limits on his strength, his
peace, his joy, nor any attributes his Father gave in his creation. What he
wills with his Creator and Redeemer must be done. His holy will can never be
denied, because his Father shines upon his mind, and lays before it all the
strength and love in earth and Heaven."
*The strength of God's limitlessness is the answer to all problems perceived
here:
"The oneness of the Creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity
and your limitless power. This limitless power is God's gift to you, because it
is what you are.... There is no circumstance it cannot answer, and no problem
which is not resolved within its gracious light."
(T-7.VI.10:4-5;T-26.VII.18:5).*
(1:5-6) "I am he to whom all this is given. I am he in whom the power of my
Father's Will abides."
*Again, following from Lesson 319, this is not arrogance but the humility that
says this power is not in me alone, and individual lording it over others. It is
the power of Christ, God's one Son as He created Him, and I know the power is
truly mine when I share its strength and love with the world:
"To use the power God has given you as He would have it used is natural. It
is not arrogant to be as He created you, nor to make use of what He gave to
answer all His Son's mistakes and set him free. But it is arrogant to lay aside
the power that He gave, and choose a little senseless wish instead of what He
wills." (T-26.18:1-3).*
(2:1) "<Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world as
well through me."
*When my mind is healed, God's Son is one, and since <ideas leave not their
source>, the world is one with me as well.*
(2:2-3) "There is no limit on Your Will. And so all power has been given to Your
Son.>"
*The conclusion of Helen's "The Singing Reed" nicely expresses this unity of
Father and Son:
"How holy are my footsteps, which but go
To do the Will of God, Whose Son I am.
And how forever perfect is my will,
Which is in no way separate from His Own."
(The Gifts of God, p.3)*
Love and Blessings,
Lyn Johnson 719-369-1822
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