Lesson 168
Your grace is given me. I claim it now.
p1. God speaks to us. 2 Shall we not
speak to Him? 3 He is not distant. 4
He makes no attempt to hide from us. 5 We try
to hide from Him, and suffer from deception. 6
He remains entirely accessible. 7 He loves His
Son. 8 There is no certainty but this, yet this
suffices. 9 He will love His Son forever. 10
When his mind remains asleep, He loves him still. 11
And when his mind awakes, He loves him with a never-changing Love.
p2. If you but knew the meaning of His Love, hope and despair would
be impossible. 2 For hope would be forever satisfied;
despair of any kind unthinkable. 3 His grace
His answer is to all despair, for in it lies remembrance of His Love. 4
Would He not gladly give the means by which His Will is recognized? 5
His grace is yours by your acknowledgment. 6
And memory of Him awakens in the mind that asks the means of Him whereby
its sleep is done.
p3. Today we ask of God the gift He has most carefully preserved
within our hearts, waiting to be acknowledged. 2
This the gift by which God leans to us and lifts us up, taking salvation’s
final step Himself. 3 All steps but this we
learn, instructed by His Voice. 4 But finally
He comes Himself, and takes us in His Arms and sweeps away the cobwebs of
our sleep. 5 His gift of grace is more than
just an answer. 6 It restores all memories the
sleeping mind forgot; all certainty of what Love’s meaning is.
p4. God loves His Son. 2 Request Him
now to give the means by which this world will disappear, and vision first
will come, with knowledge but an instant later. 3
For in grace you see a light that covers all the world in love, and watch
fear disappear from every face as hearts rise up and claim the light as
theirs. 4 What now remains that Heaven be delayed
an instant longer? 5 What is still undone when
your forgiveness rests on everything?
p5. It is a new and holy day today, for we receive what has been
given us. 2 Our faith lies in the Giver, not
our own acceptance. 3 We acknowledge our mistakes,
but He to Whom all error is unknown is yet the One Who answers our mistakes
by giving us the means to lay them down, and rise to Him in gratitude and
love.
p6. And He descends to meet us, as we come to Him. 2
For what He has prepared for us He gives and we receive. 3
Such is His Will, because He loves His Son. 4
To Him we pray today, returning but the word He gave to us through His Own
Voice, His Word, His Love:
5 Your grace is given me.
6 I claim it now. 7
Father, I come to You. 8 And You will come to
me who ask. 9 I am the Son You love.
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