Lesson 339 – I will receive whatever I request.
Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)
This lesson can be easily misunderstood, especially if blended with Law of Attraction principles. Jesus is reminding us that we can request Peace which is Unified Mind, or conflict and fear which is the result of ego/separated mind. Remember, there is always only one problem and one solution: the problem is that we are dreaming we are individual people in a world of time and space. The solution is to request Guidance to help us awaken from the dream.
Forgiveness is redefined as a method of recognizing the illusory dream for what it is — a figment of our imagination. Forgiveness allows us to give all our fears and misconceptions about who we are to Spirit to be transformed into Truth. If we request God’s Peace, Love and Joy we will get it. The ego says, “BUT you will be destroyed — you won’t be ‘you’ anymore.” That’s how we mistake the “pleasure” of being an individual as preferable to being Unified. Joy seems painful, threatening and dangerous when it becomes clear that Joy is a state of Unified Mind.
It seems as if we will have to give up all kinds of people, circumstances and things we cherish and hold dear if we are Unified Wholeness. Don’t worry — this melting away of ideas of separateness will only lead to real Peace, Love and Joy. You’ll find out if you really heed the prayer at the end of this lesson: Father, this is Your Day. It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me.
LESSON 339
I will receive whatever I request.
No one desires pain. But he can think that pain is pleasure. No one would avoid his happiness. But he can think that joy is painful, threatening and dangerous. Everyone will receive what he requests. But he can be confused indeed about the things he wants; the state he would attain. What can he then request that he would want when he receives it? He has asked for what will frighten him, and bring him suffering. Let us resolve today to ask for what we really want, and only this, that we may spend this day in fearlessness, without confusing pain with joy, or fear with love.
Father, this is Your day. It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me.
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