Let all things be exactly as they are.
Here is a lesson in acceptance. It is not a lesson in laziness or sloth.
This lessons shows you the SOURCE of all every problem you seem to have along with every solution: in your mind. Contained in every single lesson is a reminder of your own action of mind to see things differently. You let all things be exactly as they are AND you change your mind to see people, places and events with Christ vision.
This lesson is simply saying “Stop trying to change the external picture. Accept it as it is, and see it with Christ vision.”
Let all things be exactly as they are.
What a great reminder. I am no longer going to attempt to change my spouse, my mother, my father, my sisters, my brothers, my co-workers, my friends, my enemies. I am going to withdraw my investment in trying to preach/teach to others to get them to change. My responsibility is to work only on myself.
As I change my mind about myself and the world, the picture changes.
If I feel that “someone else” is not giving enough then I need only ask myself where I am not giving. Whatever seems to be lacking in the situation is what is lacking in me.
If you feel that others do not appreciate your good works, then STOP RIGHT THERE.
Stop.
The only change that is necessary is in your own mind. If you feel not appreciated, not loved enough, not fully recognized for your qualities and goodness then there is some place IN YOU where YOU are holding back. Are you seeing the goodness in your brother? Are you appreciating his efforts? No one is doing anything to you. There is no one outside of you. You are getting a reflection/mirror of your own state of mind.
This is where it gets fun. You start participating in your own life in order to see dramatic changes. You become an active co-creator with God.
The eagerness of the Holy Spirit to give you this is so intense He would not wait, although He waits in patience. MEET His patience with your IMpatience at delay in meeting Him. Go out in gladness to meet with your Redeemer, and walk with Him, in trust, out of this world, and into the real world of beauty and forgiveness.
This is from Chapter 17, Section 3, The Forgiven World:
Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? In NO fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely. Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness, and nothing will you value like unto this, nor hold so dear. Nothing that you remember, that made your heart seem to sing with joy, has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. FOR YOU WILL SEE THE SON OF GOD. You will behold the beauty that the Holy Spirit loves to look upon, and that He thanks the Father for. He was created to see this FOR you, until YOU learn to see it for yourself. And all His teaching leads to seeing it, and giving thanks with Him.
The real world is attained simply by the COMPLETE forgiveness of the old; the world you see WITHOUT forgiveness. The Great Transformer of perception will undertake WITH you the careful searching of the mind that MADE this world, and uncover TO YOU the SEEMING reasons for your making it. In the light of the REAL reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will SHOW you that there is NO reason here at all. Each spot HIS reason touches, grows alive with beauty. And what SEEMED ugly, in the darkness of your LACK of reason, is suddenly released to loveliness. Not even what the Son of God made in insanity, could be without a hidden spark of beauty, that gentleness could release.
All this beauty will rise to bless your sight, as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally TRANSFORMS vision, and lets you see the real world, reaching quietly and gently across chaos, and removing ALL illusions that had twisted your perception, and fixed it on the past. The smallest leaf becomes a thing of wonder, and a blade of grass a sign of God’s perfection. From the forgiven world, the Son of God is lifted easily to his home. And there he knows that he has ALWAYS rested there, in peace.
Even salvation will become a dream, and vanish from his mind. For salvation IS the end of dreams, and, with the closing of the dream, will have no meaning. Who, awake in Heaven, COULD dream that there could ever be NEED of salvation? How much do you WANT salvation? It will GIVE you the real world, trembling with readiness to BE given you. The eagerness of the Holy Spirit to give you this, is so intense He would not wait, although He waits in patience. MEET His patience with your IMpatience at delay in meeting Him. Go out in gladness to meet with your Redeemer, and walk with Him, in trust, out of this world, and into the real world of beauty and forgiveness.
Beautiful, thank you.