Lesson 165

Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.

p1. What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the
truth that lies beyond? 2 What but your thoughts
of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the eternal life your
Father wills for you? 3 And what could hide
what cannot be concealed except illusion? 4
What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see
it not, denying it is there?

p2. The Thought of God created you. 2
It left you not, nor have you ever been apart from it an instant. 3
It belongs to you. 4 By it you live. 5
It is your Source of life, holding you one with it, and everything is one
with you because it left you not. 6 The Thought
of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth
your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love. 7
Eternity and everlasting life shine in your mind, because the Thought of
God has left you not, and still abides with you.

p3. Who would deny his safety and his peace, his joy, his healing
and his peace of mind, his quiet rest, his calm awakening, if he but recognized
where they abide? 2 Would he not instantly prepare
to go where they are found, abandoning all else as worthless in comparison
with them? 3 And having found them, would he
not make sure they stay with him, and he remain with them?

p4. Deny not Heaven. 2 It is yours
today, but for the asking. 3 Nor need you perceive
how great the gift, how changed your mind will be before it comes to you.
4 Ask to receive, and it is given you. 5
Conviction lies within it. 6 Till you welcome
it as yours, uncertainty remains. 7 Yet God
is fair. 8 Sureness is not required to receive
what only your acceptance can bestow.

p5. Ask with desire. 2 You need not
be sure that you request the only thing you want. 3
But when you have received, you will be sure you have the treasure you have
always sought. 4 What would you then exchange
for it? 5 What would induce you now to let it
fade away from your ecstatic vision? 6 For this
sight proves that you have exchanged your blindness for the seeing eyes
of Christ; your mind has come to lay aside denial, and accept the Thought
of God as your inheritance.

p6. Now is all doubting past, the journey’s end made certain, and
salvation given you. 2 Now is Christ’s power
in your mind, to heal as you were healed. 3
For now you are among the saviors of the world. 4
Your destiny lies there and nowhere else. 5
Would God consent to let His Son remain forever starved by his denial of
the nourishment he needs to live? 6 Abundance
dwells in him, and deprivation cannot cut him off from God’s sustaining
Love and from his home.

p7. Practice today in hope. 2 For hope
indeed is justified. 3 Your doubts are meaningless,
for God is certain. 4 And the Thought of Him
is never absent. 5 Sureness must abide within
you who are host to Him. 6 This course removes
all doubts which you have interposed between Him and your certainty of Him.

p8. We count on God, and not upon ourselves, to give us certainty.
2 And in His Name we practice as His Word directs
we do. 3 His sureness lies beyond our every
doubt. 4 His Love remains beyond our every fear.
5 The Thought of Him is still beyond all dreams
and in our minds, according to His Will.

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Lesson 165

Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.

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