Entering the Ark

Chapter 20 – 4. Entering the Ark

Nothing can hurt you unless you give it the power to do so. Yet you give
power as the laws of this world interpret giving; as you give you lose. It is
not up to you to give power at all. Power is of God, given by Him and
reawakened by the holy Spirit, Who knows that as you give you gain. He
gives no power to sin, and therefore it has none; nor to its results as this
world sees them,–sickness and death and misery and pain. These things
have not occurred because the Holy Spirit sees them not, and gives no
power to their seeming source. Thus would he keep you free of them. Being
without illusion of what you are, the Holy Spirit merely gives everything to
God, Who has already given and received all that is true. The untrue he has
neither received nor given.
 
Sin has no place in Heaven, where its results are alien and can no more
enter than can their source. And therein lies your need to see your brother
sinless. In him is Heaven. See sin in him instead, and Heaven is lost to you.
 
But see him as he is, and what is yours shines from him to you. Your savior
gives you only love, but what you would receive of him is up to you. It lies
in him to overlook all your mistakes, and therein lies his own salvation. And
so it is with yours. It is the reawakening of the laws of God in minds that
have established other laws, and given them power to enforce what God
created not.
 
Your insane laws were made to guarantee that you would make mistakes,
and give them power over you by accepting their results as your just due.
 
What could this be but madness? And is it this that you would see within
your savior from insanity? He is as free from this as you are, and in the
freedom that you see in him you see your own. For this you share. What
God has given follows his laws, and his alone. Nor is it possible for those
who follow them to suffer the results of any other source.
 
Those who choose freedom will experience only its results. Their power is
of God, and they will give it only to what God has given, to share with
them. Nothing but this can touch them, for they see only this, sharing their
power according to the Will of God. And thus their freedom is established
and maintained. It is upheld through all temptation to imprison and to be
imprisoned. It is of them who learned of freedom that you should ask what
freedom is. Ask not the sparrow how the eagle soars, for those with little
wings have not accepted for themselves the power to share with you.
 
The sinless give as they received. See, then, the power of sinlessness within
your brother, and share with him the power of the release from sin you
offered him. To each who walks this earth in seeming solitude is a savior
given, whose special function here is to release him, and so to free himself.
In the world of separation each is appointed separately, though they are all
the same. Yet those who know that they are all the same need not salvation.
 
And each one finds his savior when he is ready to look upon the face of
Christ, and see him sinless.
 
The plan is not of you, nor need you be concerned with anything except the
part that has been given you to learn. For he who knows the rest will see to
it without your help. But think not that he does not need your part to help
him with the rest. For in your part lies all of it, without which is no part
complete, nor is the whole completed without your part. The ark of peace is
entered two by two, yet the beginning of another world goes with them.
 
Each holy relationship must enter here, to learn its special function in the
Holy Spirit’s plan, now that it shares his purpose. And as this purpose is
fulfilled, a new world rises in which sin can enter not, and where the Son of
God can enter without fear and where he rests a while, to forget
imprisonment and to remember freedom. How can he enter, to rest and to
remember, without you? Except you be there, he is not complete. And it is
his completion that he remembers there.
 
This is the purpose given you. Think not that your forgiveness of your
brother serves but you two alone. For the whole new world rests in the
hands of every two who enter here to rest. And as they rest, the face of
Christ shines on them and they remember the laws of God, forgetting all the
rest and yearning only to have his laws perfectly fulfilled in them and all
their brothers. Think you when this has been achieved that you will rest
without them? You could no more leave one of them outside than I could
leave you, and forget part of myself.
 
You may wonder how you can be at peace when, while you are in time,
there is so much that must be done before the way to peace is open. Perhaps
this seems impossible to you. But ask yourself if it is possible that God
would have a plan for your salvation that does not work. Once you accept
his plan as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else
the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you without your effort. He will go
before you making straight your path, and leaving in your way no stones to
trip on, and no obstacles to bar your way. Nothing you need will be denied
you. Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it. You
need take thought for nothing, careless of everything except the only
purpose that you would fulfill. As that was given you, so will its fulfillment
be. God’s guarantee will hold against all obstacles, for it rests on certainty
and not contingency. It rests on you. And what can be more certain than a
Son of God?