IV. The End of Sickness P 6
6 When you have experienced the protection of God, the making of idols becomes inconceivable. There are no strange images in the Mind of God, and what is not in His Mind cannot be in yours, because you are of one mind and that mind belongs to Him. It is yours because it belongs to Him, for to Him ownership is sharing. And if it is so for Him, it is so for you. His definitions are His laws, for by them He established the universe as what it is. No false gods you attempt to interpose between yourself and your reality affect truth at all. Peace is yours because God created you. And He created nothing else.
It can be difficult for us to not feel threatened by the idea of a God that we belong to, one that rules the universe and whose laws we must live by. This can be frightening as the ego mind rebels and says that we are each independent and that independence is a point of pride. Ego says that we are separate and distinct and our uniqueness is what makes us what we are, and to lose that is to lose our self. And if God makes all the laws and we must live by them, what if we don’t? What if we fail to do this? In our world of time and space, when someone fails to live by a law they are punished, so punishment is what we expect.
But Jesus tells us that for God, ownership is sharing. This is meaningless in our experience, but it is the way of Reality. And while we cannot have that experience in the ego mind, we can infer its meaning. What God is, He shares with us. So if we belong to God, if we are His creation, we share all that is God. We share the Mind of God and His laws are our laws, and His power is our power, and His safety is our safety. The inference is that in Reality, there is no loss in belonging to God. All that God Is, He gave to us in our creation because that is the very definition of creation.
And could we fail to obey the laws of God? In the illusory world of time and space we act as if we can do this, and we see the effect of our imaginative play. This effect is the reason, the motivation, to awaken from this dream of separation. As we pretend we can make laws different from God’s laws we suffer pain and death. But we are not bound by those laws and can step out of the stories of separation at any time because they are not reality.
God’s laws are not optional. They are like the law of gravity here. We can thumb our nose at gravity, but the moment we step off a cliff we will plummet to the ground. Gravity is gravity. This is the way God’s laws operate. They simply are and nothing undoes them. We are one. That is a law of God, as immutable as our law of gravity, and as irreversible. We are one, we are love, we are mind, we are part of God and in God. We create as God creates. We are eternal. These are laws of God and nothing can change this. Anything else is just a thought, an idea that we are free to explore, but that changes nothing.
We can make an anti-gravity chamber and float around as if nothing holds us to the ground, but when we step out of that chamber we find that the law of gravity has not altered. That is how it is for us. We have made an anti-oneness chamber and we are hanging around in it and playing at separation. We won’t stay forever because this is not natural for us. We will get tired of suffering or just get tired of the restrictions, and we will wake up to our true and perfectly free Selves. We will step out of the chamber we made and the laws of God will still be in effect.
And thank God for that!
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