Today's idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin
impossible. It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does
not exist. It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the
text; ideas leave not their source. If this be true, how can you be apart from
God? How could you walk the world alone and separate from your Source?
We are not inconsistent in the thoughts that we present in our curriculum. Truth
must be true throughout if it be true. It cannot contradict itself, nor be in
parts uncertain and in others sure. You cannot walk the world apart from God
because you could not be without Him. He is what your life is. Where you are He
is. There is one Life. That Life you share with Him. Nothing can be apart from
Him and live.
Yet where He is there must be holiness as well as life. No attribute of His
remains unshared by everything that lives. What lives is holy as Himself because
what shares His life is part of Holiness, and could no more be sinful than the
sun could choose to be of ice; the sea elect to be apart from water, or the
grass to grow with roots suspended in the air.
There is a Light in you Which cannot die, Whose Presence is so holy that the
world is sanctified because of you. All things that live bring gifts to you, and
offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet. The scent of flowers is their
gift to you. The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to
shield you from the heat and lay their leaves before you on the ground that you
may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper around your holy head.
The Light in you is what the universe longs to behold. All living things are
still before you, for they recognize Who walks with you. The light you carry is
their own, and thus they see in you their holiness, saluting you as Savior and
as God. Accept their reverence, for it is due to Holiness itself Which walks
with you, transforming in Its gentle Light all things into Its likeness and Its
purity.
This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the Light in you steps
forward and encompasses the world. It heralds not the end of sin in punishment
and death. In lightness and in laughter is it gone, because its quaint absurdity
is seen. It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not frightening, ridiculous
perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach to God Himself for such a
senseless whim?
Yet you have wasted many, many years on just this foolish thought. The past is
gone with all its fantasies. They keep you bound no longer. The approach to God
is near. And in the little interval of doubt which still remains, you may
perhaps lose sight of your Companion, and mistake Him for the senseless, ancient
dream that now is past.
"Who walks with me?" This question should be asked a thousand times a day,
till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. Today let doubting
cease. God speaks for you in answering your question with these words:
"I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world, I light my mind and all The minds which God created one with me."
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