I merely follow, for I would not lead.
“Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to me. You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step in my appointed. I cannot lose the way.”
“I can choose to wander off a while, and then return. Your loving Voice will always call me back, and guide my feet aright. My brothers all can follow in the way I lead them. Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You direct me and would have me go.”
A good friend said to me the other day that the simplicity of A Course in Miracles can be expressed in this way:
1. Show up.
2. Get out of the way.
LOL.
It’s so true. Just show up. Pay attention. Stay focused. And then get out of the way because the Holy Spirit leads. He moves me. He catapults me. I follow.
Lately “to follow” is not accurate. It’s more like I’m in the passenger seat with the Holy Spirit driving and we arrive somewhere and He announces: WE’RE HERE!
Honey, we’re here! Bags out of the car! We’ve arrived!
That’s more accurate. I follow in the sense that I have the willingness to go wherever He is going and to wherever He is taking me. I trust that He knows where He’s going. I am happy to go there with Him.
He leads. I follow.
It used to be that I would listen for instructions, for example: I would sit quietly and ask the Holy Spirit questions and he would answer and I would follow and do what He asked. But more and more there is no time for that. He’s in me now. He is me now. He moves me. There’s no Lisa asking a question. There is just the Holy Spirit leading.
From the Introduction to the Clarification of Terms:
This course remains within the ego framework, where it is needed. It is not concerned with what is beyond all error because it is planned only to set the direction towards it. Therefore it uses words, which are symbolic, and cannot express what lies beyond symbols. It is merely the ego that questions because it is only the ego that doubts. The course merely gives another answer, once a question has been raised. However, this answer does not attempt to resort to inventiveness or ingenuity. These are attributes of the ego. The course is simple. It has one function and one goal. Only in that does it remain wholly consistent because only that can be consistent.
Amazing. I’m laughing. All the questions, including all those contained within A Course in Miracles, are set within the ego’s framework.
Even the most lofty spiritual questions to be helpful are set within the ego’s framework:
What would You have me do?
What would You have me say?
And to whom?
At a certain point, questions cease and then there is only action, which comes from God.
In Heaven, there is no need for help. And yet while I find myself here there is work to do.
Lesson 169: By grace I live. By grace I am released.
We have repeated several times before that you but make a journey that is done. For oneness must be here. Whatever time the mind has set for revelation is entirely irrelevant to what must be a constant state, forever as it always was; forever to remain as it is now. We merely take the part assigned long since, and fully recognize as perfectly fulfilled by Him Who wrote salvation’s script in His Creator’s Name, and in the Name of His Creator’s Son.
There is no need to further clarify what no-one in the world can understand. When revelation of your Oneness comes, it will be known and fully understood. Now we have work to do, for those in time can speak of things beyond, and listen to words which explain what is to come is past already. Yet what meaning can the words convey to those who count the hours still, and rise and work and go to sleep by them?
Suffice it, then, that you have work to do to play your part. The ending must remain obscure to you until your part is done. It does not matter. For your part is still what all the rest depends on. As you take the role assigned to you, salvation comes a little nearer each uncertain heart that does not beat as yet in tune with God. Forgiveness is the central theme which runs throughout salvation, holding all its parts in meaningful relationships, the course it runs directed, and its outcome sure.
And now we ask for grace, the final gift salvation can bestow.
So let us follow One Who knows the way. We need not tarry, and we cannot stray except an instant from His Loving Hand. We walk together, for we follow Him. And it is He Who makes the ending sure, and guarantees a safe returning home.
We walk together, for we follow Him.
I love you.
Facebook comments:
Lisa, I love your “parable” about driving in the car with the Holy Spirit at the wheel! That was so enlightening. I read a card once that said: “In getting where I want to go, I’m a frequent later arriver. Though God is at the steering wheel, I’m a chronic backseat driver!”
Love,
Carol
The love of Christ Jesus has consumed us. WE only need to let him lead us. It is very hard to remember this constantly. However when We feel His loving guidance there is nothing us. Nothing.