lesson 317
“I follow in the way appointed me.”I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone. Salvation waits until
I take this part as what I choose to do. Until I make this choice, I am
the slave of time and human destiny. But when I willingly and gladly
go the way my Father’s plan appointed me to go, then will I
recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and
already mine as well.
“Father,Your way is what I choose today.Where it would lead me do I
choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do.Your way is certain, and
the end secure.The memory of You awaits me there, and all my sorrows end in
Your embrace, which You have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly
that he had wandered from the sure protection of Your loving arms.”
lesson 318
“In me salvation’s means and end are one.”In me, God’s holy Son, are reconciled all parts of Heaven’s plan to
save the world.What could conflict, when all the parts have but one
purpose and one aim? How could there be a single part that stands
aside, or one of more or less importance than the rest? I am the
means by which God’s Son is saved, because salvation’s purpose is to
find the sinlessness which God has placed in me. I was created as the
thing I seek. I am the goal the world is searching for. I am God’s Son,
His one Eternal Love. I am salvation’s means and end as well.
“Let me today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your request that
I accept Atonement for myself. For thus does what is thereby reconciled in me
become as surely reconciled to You.”
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