T. 23. Intro. 3 – 6. Jesus: “Walk you in glory, with your head held high, and fear no evil! The innocent are safe because they share their innocence by seeing it in everywhere. Nothing they see then is harmful, for their awareness of the truth releases everything from the illusion of harmfulness. And what once seemed harmful now stands shining before them in their own innocence, released from sin and fear and happily returned to love.
The innocent share the strength of genuine love because they have looked on innocence. And every error has disappeared because they saw it not. Who looks for glory finds it where it is. Where could it be but in the innocent?
Let not any ‘little interferers’ pull you into littleness! There can be no attraction of guilt in innocence. Think what a happy world you walk, with truth beside you! Do not give up this world of freedom for a little sigh of seeming sin, nor for a tiny stirring of guilt’s attraction. Would you, for all these meaningless distractions, lay Heaven aside? Your destiny and purpose are far beyond them, in the cleanness and clarity where littleness does not exist. Your purpose now is at variance with littleness of any kind. And so it is at variance with the tiniest thought of sin!
Let us not let littleness lead God’s Son into temptation! His glory is beyond it, measureless and timeless as eternity. Do not let time intrude upon your sight of him. Leave him not frightened and alone in his temptation, but help him rise above it and perceive the light of which he is a part. Your innocence will light the way to his, and so is yours protected and kept in your awareness. For who can know his glory, and perceive the little and the weak about him?
Who can still walk trembling in a seeming fearful world, and yet realize that Heaven’s glory shines on him? Nothing around you but is part of you. Look on it lovingly, and see the light of Heaven in it! So will you come to understand all that is given you. In kind forgiveness will the world sparkle and shine in your new vision, and everything you once thought sinful now will be recast as part of Heaven.
How beautiful it is to walk, clean and redeemed and happy, through a world in bitter need of the redemption that your innocence now bestows upon it! What can you value more than this? For here is your salvation and your freedom. And it must be complete if you would recognize it!”