I love this lesson. Christ is asking if He can use my eyes today “and thus redeem the world.”
The answer is YES.
Yes, please. Have my eyes. Look through me.
Christ, let me see everything as You see it, with love.
A lot of people turn their life and will over to the care of God or to Jesus or some higher power without really realizing exactly what they are doing or saying. You might have said “Have all of me! I’m yours! Use me! I’ll do anything! Just get me out of this pain and problem!!”
It was probably some moment of desperation. Or it might have been a bargaining chip you used in prayer to get you out of some mess. Or perhaps you simply wanted a higher adventure.
But chances are, you didn’t really know what you were committing yourself to. You probably didn’t really read the fine details of the contract you signed your name to. You probably didn’t take it all that seriously.
But in truth, when you declare anything – silently in your mind or verbally out loud – that vibration creates a real agreement between you and all the universe. Angels rush in. The Holy Spirit rushes in. God rushes in.
Then usually all chaos ensues, because your life as it was … well … wasn’t working. Be honest. If it was working, you wouldn’t have asked for a miracle. So this is usually about the time that everything breaks loose – all your relationships start to fall apart, you lose your job, things begin to shift, which is exactly what you asked for. You asked for something to change.
You might begin to think … well, I didn’t sign up for this! I didn’t ask for this!
Except … LOL … you totally did!
You absolutely signed on the dotted line to allow the Holy Spirit and God work through you.
In the Teachers Manual of A Course in Miracles it asks “Who are God’s Teachers?”
“A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has a made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart from someone else’s. Once he has done that, his road is established and his direction is sure. A light has entered the darkness. It may be a single light, but that is enough. He has entered an agreement with God even if he does not yet believe in Him. He has become a bringer of salvation. He has become a teacher of God.”
So see? You did sign on the dotted line – you have entered into an agreement with God – the instant you were helpful to someone else. Everyone at some point in their life has seen someone else’s interests as their own. Everyone. And this makes you a teacher of God, even if you don’t believe in God.
Today’s lesson is a first step in giving over one of your body parts: your eyes.
It always seems easier when you are offering all your love, joy, money, etc. when you are at a distance (or in a desperate place, saying “I’ll do anything! Just get me out of this mess!”) but then it’s a whole different story when you are called on to give something specific. It’s a little like someone who says “If you need anything, anything at all, just ask!” but when you ask for $50, they hesitate and want to know what it’s for.
Same with this. You turned your life and will over to God. And now today you are asked to give your eyes to Christ.
And there might be some hesitation, like, What?? Give my eyes? Are you crazy?
It’s not as bad or difficult as you think. This is a fun lesson: The Holy Spirit looks through me today.
The lesson says that the Holy Spirit is asking “this gift” from me that “He may offer peace of mind to me, and take away all terror and all pain.”
Amazing, huh? I give a little to the Holy Spirit and He gives me a lot.
“As I am saved, the world is saved with me. For all of us must be redeemed together. Fear appears in many different forms, but love is one.”
My Father, Christ has asked a gift of me, and one I give that it be given to me. Help me to use the eyes of Christ today, and thus allow the Holy Spirit’s Love to bless all things which I may look upon, that His forgiving Love may rest on me.”
Oh my God. I love it.
Look with the eyes of Christ. Look upon everything through eyes of love and forgiveness. I’m sure there is some event or person in your life right now – in this moment – that you can use to practice to see that this lesson is true.
Situation don’t change. YOU CHANGE. You look upon a person that you have a grievance with, and when you shift to let the Holy Spirit look, that same exact person in that same exact moment transforms from your enemy to your savior – literally transforms in that same second! – and all you see is light. Suddenly, you fall madly passionately in love that with person who 5 seconds earlier you had the hugest grievance. Talk about a miracle!!
I just love this message! I wish I had read it at the start of my day so I could have looked at everyone through the eyes of Christ. It would have made a difference in my day! Thanks, Lisa.
Wow. Awesome!
Thank you.
I have made my commitment many year ago, and have seen many miracules ,I am ready to let go completely, and give myself , body and spirit to the holy spirit.