Voice From Heaven

LESSON 174 Review of Lessons 157 - 158 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (157) Into His Presence would I enter now. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (158) Today I learn to give as I receive. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 173 Review of Lessons 155 - 156 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (155) I will step back and let Him lead the way. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (156) I walk with God in perfect holiness. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM

LESSON 172 Review of Lessons 153 - 154 God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (153) In my defenselessness my safety lies. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (154) I am among the ministers of God. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. - Jesus Christ in ACIM

Review Lessons 171-180 Introduction We now review again. This time we are ready to give more effort and more time to what we undertake. We recognize we are preparing for another phase of understanding. We would take this step completely, that we may go on again more certain, more sincere, with faith upheld more surely. Our footsteps have not been unwavering, and doubts have made us walk uncertainl...

LESSON 170 There Is No Cruelty In God And None In Me .No one attacks without intent to hurt. This can have no exception. When you think that you attack in self-defense, you mean that to be cruel is protection; you are safe because of cruelty. You mean that you believe to hurt another brings you freedom. And you mean that to attack is to exchange the state in which you are for something better, saf...

LESSON 169 By Grace I Live. By Grace I Am Released. Grace is an aspect of the Love of God which is most like the state prevailing in the unity of truth. It is the world’s most lofty aspiration, for it leads beyond the world entirely. It is past learning, yet the goal of learning, for grace cannot come until the mind prepares itself for true acceptance. Grace becomes inevitable instantly in those w...

LESSON 168 Your Grace Is Given Me. I Claim It Now. God speaks to us. Shall we not speak to Him? He is not distant. He makes no attempt to hide from us. We try to hide from Him, and suffer from deception. He remains entirely accessible. He loves His Son. There is no certainty but this, yet this suffices. He will love His Son forever. When his mind remains asleep, He loves him still. And when his mi...

LESSON 167 There Is One Life, And That I Share With God. There are not different kinds of life, for life is like the truth. It does not have degrees. It is the one condition in which all that God created share. Like all His Thoughts, it has no opposite. There is no death because what God created shares His Life. There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist. There is no death because...

LESSON 166 I Am Entrusted With The Gifts Of God. All things are given you. God’s trust in you is limitless. He knows His Son. He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. But what would make you think there is another will than His? Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the...

LESSON 165 Let Not My Mind Deny The Thought Of God. What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the truth that lies beyond? What but your thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the eternal life your Father wills for you? And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion? What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it not...

LESSON 164 Now Are We One With Him Who Is Our Source. What time but now can truth be recognized? The present is the only time there is. And so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there; not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ. He looks past time, and sees eternity as represented there. He hears the sounds the senseless, busy world engenders, yet He hears them faintly...

LESSON 163 There Is No Death. The Son Of God Is Free. Death is a thought that takes on many forms, often unrecognized. It may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust; concern for bodies, envy, and all forms in which the wish to be as you are not may come to tempt you. All such thoughts are but reflections of the worshipping of death as savior and as giv...

LESSON 162 I Am As God Created Me. This single thought, held firmly in the mind, would save the world. From time to time we will repeat it, as we reach another stage in learning. It will mean far more to you as you advance. These words are sacred, for they are the words God gave in answer to the world you made. By them it disappears, and all things seen within its misty clouds and vaporous illusio...

LESSON 161 Give Me Your Blessing, Holy Son Of God. Today we practice differently, and take a stand against our anger, that our fears may disappear and offer room to love. Here is salvation in the simple words in which we practice with today’s idea. Here is the answer to temptation which can never fail to welcome in the Christ where fear and anger had prevailed before. Here is Atonement made comple...

LESSON 160 I Am At Home. Fear Is The Stranger Here. Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself. And thus you are unknown to you. What is your Self remains an alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real, but different from yourself. Who could be sane in such a circumstance? Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and jud...

LESSON 159 I Give The Miracles I Have Received. No one can give what he has not received. To give a thing requires first you have it in your own possession. Here the laws of Heaven and the world agree. But here they also separate. The world believes that to possess a thing, it must be kept. Salvation teaches otherwise. To give is how to recognize you have received. It is the proof that what you ha...

LESSON 158 Today I Learn To Give As I Receive. What has been given you? The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of Love. Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. It was given as well to every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it...

LESSON 157 Into His Presence Would I Enter Now. This is a day of silence and of trust. It is a special time of promise in your calendar of days. It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine upon, and cast a timeless light upon this day, when echoes of eternity are heard. This day is holy, for it ushers in a new experience; a different kind of feeling and awareness. You have spent long days and night...

LESSON 156 I Walk With God In Perfect Holiness. Today’s idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin impossible. It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does not exist. It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the text; ideas leave not their source. If this be true, how can you be apart from God? How could you walk the world alone and...

LESSON 155 I Will Step Back And Let Him Lead The Way. There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk the world as you do recognize you also, and believe that you are like them, as you were before. The world is an illusion. Those who c...

LESSON 154 I Am Among The Ministers Of God. Let us today be neither arrogant nor falsely humble. We have gone beyond such foolishness. We cannot judge ourselves, nor need we do so. These are but attempts to hold decision off, and to delay commitment to our function. It is not our part to judge our worth, nor can we know what role is best for us; what we can do within a larger plan we cannot see in...

LESSON 153 In My Defenselessness My Safety Lies. You who feel threatened by this changing world, its twists of fortune and its bitter jests, its brief relationships and all the “gifts” it merely lends to take away again; attend this lesson well. The world provides no safety. It is rooted in attack, and all its “gifts” of seeming safety are illusory deceptions. It attacks, and then attacks again. N...

LESSON 152 The Power Of Decision Is My Own. No one can suffer loss unless it be his own decision. No one suffers pain except his choice elects this state for him. No one can grieve nor fear nor think him sick unless these are the outcomes that he wants. And no one dies without his own consent. Nothing occurs but represents your wish, and nothing is omitted that you choose. Here is your world, comp...

LESSON 151 All Things Are Echoes Of The Voice For God. No one can judge on partial evidence. That is not judgment. It is merely an opinion based on ignorance and doubt. Its seeming certainty is but a cloak for the uncertainty it would conceal. It needs irrational defense because it is irrational. And its defense seems strong, convincing, and without a doubt because of all the doubting underneath....

LESSON 150 Review of Lessons 139 - 140 My Mind H olds Only What I Think With God. (139) I will accept Atonement for myself. (140)  Only salvation can be said to cure. - Jesus Christ in ACIM