T. 25. VI. 6 & 7. & VII. 1. Jesus: “Salvation is no more than a reminder that this world is not your home. Its laws are not imposed on you; its values are not really yours. And nothing that you think you see in it is really there at all.
This is seen and understood as each one takes his part in its undoing, as he did in making it. He has within him the means for either, as he always did. From the very instant that this healing choice is made, the specialness he chose before in form, which could only hurt him by affirming separation, does the Holy Spirit now appoint to be the means for his salvation. His ‘special sin’ is thereby made into his special grace. His special hate becomes his special love!
The Holy Spirit needs your special function, that His may be fulfilled. Think not you lack a special value here. You wanted it, and it is given you. All that you made for separation can now serve salvation easily and well.
The Holy Spirit needs your special function, that His may be fulfilled. Think not you lack a special value here. You wanted it, and it is given you. All that you made for separation can now serve salvation easily and well.
The Son of God can make no choice the Holy Spirit cannot employ on his true behalf, and not against himself. Only in darkness does your specialness appear to be attack upon the whole. In light, you see it as your special function in the plan to save the Son of God from all attack, and let him understand that he is safe, as he has always been, and will remain in time and in eternity alike.
This is the function given you for your brother. Take the recognition gently from your brother’s hand, and let salvation be perfectly fulfilled in you. Do this one thing, that everything be given you!
Yet if the Holy Spirit can commute each sentence that you laid upon yourself into a blessing, then it cannot be an immutable sin. Sin would seem to be the only thing in all the world that cannot change. It is immutably a part of this experience. And on its ‘changelessness’ the world you see depends. The magic ‘treasures’ of the world can seem to hide the pain of sin from sinners, and deceive with glitter and with guile. Yet each one knows the cost of sin is death.
And so it is. For sin is a request for death, a wish to make this world’s foundation ‘sure as love,’ dependable as Heaven, and as strong as God Himself. The world is ‘safe from love’ to everyone who thinks that sin is really possible. Nor will it change! Yet is it possible that what God created not should share the attributes of His creation, when it opposes it in every way?”