Lesson 327. I need but call and You will answer me.
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Lesson 327. I need but call and You will answer me.
I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported faith. For God
has promised He will hear my call, and answer me Himself. Let me but learn from
my experience that this is true, and faith in Him must surely come to me. This
is the faith that will endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road
that leads to Him. For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and
loves me still, awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to
Him.
Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I
but test them out. Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not.
Your Word is one with You. You give the means whereby conviction comes, and
surety of Your abiding Love is gained at last.
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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 327. "I need but call and You will answer me."
*We call and God answers us, because His Answer is already present in our minds.
We wandered away and chose the ego's answer instead. Calling on God now is to
realize our mistake, and so we return to the decision-making part of our minds
and choose correctly. God automatically answers because we have placed ourselves
in the presence of His Answer.*
(1:1-4) "I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported faith.
For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me Himself. Let me but
learn from my experience that this is true, and faith in Him must surely come to
me. This is the faith that will endure, and take me farther and still farther on
the road that leads to Him."
*Jesus is telling us here as we will see in the prayer below, that this is
something we need to practice. Our experience that God's Love replaces the ego's
hate will teach us that everything in A Course in Miracles is true, but until
this experience is chosen there will remain a part of us that will doubt what it
says. It is only when we put the ideas into practice -- realizing that hatred,
judgment, and depression were simply mistaken choices -- that we realize: Yes,
all this is true, and I choose to follow the road that takes me home.*
(1:5) "For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and loves me still,
awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to Him."
*Because I believe I abandoned God, I believe He has abandoned me, a mistake His
Voice corrects in this inspiring close to The Song of Prayer:
"Do not abandon Love. Remember this; whatever you may think about yourself,
whatever you may think about the world, your Father needs you and will call to
you until you come to Him in peace at last." (S-3.IV.10:6-7) *
(2:1) "Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience,
if I but test them out."
*Jesus is saying: "You have given the ego many chances and it has failed you
miserably. Please give me a try. Test out what I am saying, and see how much
better you feel when you let go of judgments. Recall my words:
"You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from
meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgment." (T.3.VI.3.1).
Try it. You can always retain judgment if you want. First, however, test these
thoughts and you will see how much better you feel without your specialness.*
(2:2-4) "Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not. Your Word
is one with You. You give the means whereby conviction comes, and surety of Your
abiding Love is gained at last."
*This means we will at least temporarily accept God's promises, without judging
them. Again, we can always return to the ego if we wish. Yet the fact we have
failed so miserably on our own, and have been so unhappy throughout our lives
should demonstrate that our thought system does not work. *
Love and Blessings,
Lyn Johnson 719-369-1822
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