Lesson 36. My holiness envelops everything I see.
Today’s lesson begins with “You are holy because your mind is part of God’s [therefore], your sight must be holy as well.” This I can follow and grasp. Jesus is saying my godliness envelops everything I see because the truth of me is my godliness and as Jacquelyn pointed out in yesterdays tip, “We are being invited to experience ourselves and our world in a way we have blocked our selves from experiencing it in the past. We are being invited to take the person out of the experience.” And as NTI Colossians 1 says about this experience, “You are beyond concepts and differences and form, and within the Life Force that is all things.”
It is this next part of today’s lesson that Jesus wants us to examine that had me scratching my head. Jesus seems to go on about something that initially appeared unrelated when he says: “’Sinless’ means without sin. You cannot be without sin a little. You are sinless or not. If your mind is part of God’s you must be sinless, or a part of His Mind would be sinful.” I got a better understanding of why he began talking about sin when I read ACIM’s section on Sin versus error:
It is essential that error be not confused with “sin,” and it is this distinction which makes salvation possible. For error can be corrected, and the wrong made right. But sin, were it possible, would be irreversible. For by [sin], God Himself is changed and rendered incomplete.
Sin is the belief in the reality of separation. Sin is the belief that things outside of you have the ability to affect you.
Let’s look at Brent Haskell’s book Journey Beyond Words. In the chapter entitled “Holiness,” Jeshua says:
You will know, in your holiness,
That all of life is your own creation.
God is your source.
You are very holy.
In your holiness, you are the God of your own life.
And you experience that life in your oneness with God.
Apart from God, you cannot see.
Apart from Him, you but imagine your apartness.
Apart from your holiness,
You imagine that you are separate,
That beings are different from you.
You will imagine that they are not your own creations.
You will imagine that your pain is pain.
You will imagine that things can happen to you
From outside yourself, not by your own choice.
So, as you can see if sin were real, (w)holiness would not be. You could and some might say you did imagine something less than wholeness, but it isn’t real. Sin isn’t real and therefore I am free to experience my truth and the truth is that my holiness envelops everything I see.
