lesson 327
“I need but call andYou 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.”
lesson 328
“I choose the second place to gain the first.”What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive
are upside down until we listen to the Voice of God. It seems that we
will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our
independence from the rest of God’s creation is the way in which
salvation is obtained.Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss and
death.This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any second
to His Will. To join with His is but to find our own. And since our
will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recognize our will.
“There is no will but Yours. And I am glad that nothing I imagine
contradicts what You would have me do. It is Your Will that I be wholly safe,
eternally at peace. And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave
as part of me.”
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