Lesson 151. All things are echoes of the Voice for God.
I remember when I was young, probably twelve or thirteen, my cousins who seemed to be a bit more radical thinking, would pose questions to me like…’What if when we thought we were sleeping, we were actually awake and when we thought we were awake we we actually sleeping?’ Now that doesn’t seem that radical, but I remember thinking that I didn’t like their theories. I wanted things to be as they seemed. I felt safe believing in reality as I perceived it. My cousins were suggesting chaos. I dismissed their ideas quickly.
When I was thirteen I may not have been willing to question my thoughts. I can understand a child having fear of the unknown, wanting to believe the world is like it presents itself to be, but as I have found myself on this path I can no longer place my faith in what my eyes and ears seem to report. This lesson calls our senses “idle witnesses, which merely bear false witness.” The lesson also says, “You believe to doubt his vassals is to doubt yourself. Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way to recognize yourself, and let the Voice of God alone be Judge of what is worthy of your own belief.” The Voice of God is what ACIM calls the Holy Spirit, but we know it as the inner voice, inner wisdom, and intuition.
Today’s lesson says, “Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in the world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth. He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering and loss. He gives you vision which can look beyond grim appearances….” The pain, disaster, suffering and loss lose their grip as we accept the vision of inner wisdom. The suffering dissipates when we are willing to use self-inquiry to discover what is and is not true.
When we are in our right mind we see that “all things are echoes of the Voice for God.” The Voice for God is our guide. Seeing with our right mind, guided by inner wisdom we can let our perceptions be corrected and our judgements be relinquished. We are learning to look at whatever the body’s eyes see without interpretation. In our studies this has been called Awareness-watching-Awareness (Self-Inquiry).
