The topic for today’s Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson, “Only God’s plan for salvation will work”, could be misinterpreted as meaning that there is some sort of predestined plan which we must follow in order to achieve happiness and fulfillment. What we are learning has nothing to do with blindly following something we don't understand. We are learning to understand we are the expression of God, and until we realize what that means, we have no hope of trusting what we hear within our being. But mortal mind (the thoughts which come to us from material teachings and long-held beliefs) tells us that to listen to anything other than "logic" is foolishness. And so we plant our feet on the shifting sands of materialism and think we're doing the best we can under impossible circumstances. I watched a Woody Allen movie, Magic in the Moonlight, in which Colin Firth plays a magician who is out to expose a beautiful, young spiritualist/medium as a fraud. His character is an interesting one, absolutely certain there is no such thing beyond what we physically experience. After watching this delightful romantic comedy, I'm seeing their characters through Woody's eyes, as he is positive humans are doomed to a life of misery, perhaps with moments of joy. This is one of the traps we have set for ourselves, thinking that something else is going to bring salvation to us, never guessing that it's already ours! But Mr. Allen is dancing closer to Truth with every autobiographical movie he gives us. What fun to watch his journey!
“God’s plan for salvation works simply because, by following His direction, you seek for salvation where it is. But if you are to succeed, as God promises you will, you must be willing to seek there only. Otherwise, your purpose is divided and you will attempt to follow two plans for salvation that are diametrically opposed in all ways. The result can only bring confusion, misery and a deep sense of failure and despair.”
A Course in Miracles W-71.5:1-4
"Salvation is as eternal as God. To mortal thought Jesus appeared as a child, and grew to manhood, to suffer before Pilate and on Calvary, because he could rench and teach mankind only through this conformity to mortal conditions; but Soul never saw the Saviour come and go, because the divine idea is always present." Mary Baker Eddy - Unity of Good: 59:13-18
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