Welcome to Active Meditation in Miracles Lesson 151 All things are echoes of the voice and judge and partial evidence.
That is not judgment.
It is merely an opinion based on ignorance.
If seeming certainty is but a cloak for the uncertainty it would conceal.
Partial evidence judgment needs irrational defense because it is irrational.
Its defense seems strong,
Convincing,
And without a doubt because of all the doubting that lies underneath.
You do not really question what is shown you through the body's eyes.
You do not ask why you believe what you see and sense even though you have now learned our senses do deceive.
That you believe your senses the last detail which they report is even stranger when you pause to recollect how frequently your senses have been faulty witnesses.
Indeed why would you trust them so implicitly because of underlying doubt which you would hide the show of certainty.
How can you judge your judgments upon the witness that your senses offer you?
Yet there has never been a falser witness than this.
But how else do you judge the world you see?
You place pathetic faith in what your eyes and ears report.
Your fingers touch reality and close upon the truth.
This is the awareness that you understand.
This is the awareness that you think more real than what is witnessed to by the eternal voice for God.
Can this be judgment?
You have often been urged to refrain from judging but not because judging is a right to be withheld.
You cannot judge.
You can merely believe the ego's judgments all of which are false.
Your ego guides your senses carefully to prove how weak you are.
How helpless and afraid.
How apprehensive of just punishment.
To prove how black with sin and how wretched in your guilt you are.
This thing it speaks of and would yet defend,
Your ego tells you,
Is yourself.
And so you believe that this is so with stubborn certainty.
Yet underneath remains the hidden doubt that what it shows you as reality with such conviction your ego does not believe.
It is itself alone that the ego condemns.
It is within itself that the ego sees the guilt.
It is its own despair that your ego sees in you.
Hear not the ego's voice.
Witnesses your ego sends to prove to you its evil is your own are false.
They speak with certainty of what they do not know.
Your faith in these witnesses is blind.
You believe to doubt the ego's witnesses is to doubt yourself.
The doubt you must learn is to doubt that the evidence presented by the ego's witnesses will clear the way to recognize your higher self.
You must learn to let the voice for God alone be the judge of what is worthy of your own belief.
God will not tell you that your brother or your sister should be judged by what your eyes behold in them nor what their body's mouth says to your ears nor what your fingers touch reports of them.
God passes by such idle witnesses which merely bear false witness to God's children.
God recognizes only what God loves and in the holy light of what God sees do all the ego's dreams of what you are vanish before the splendor God beholds.
Let God be the judge of what you are for God has certainty in which there is no doubt because God's judgment rests on certainty so great that doubt is meaningless before its face.
Christ cannot doubt himself.
The voice for God can only honor him rejoicing in his perfect everlasting sinlessness.
Those who let God judge can only laugh at guilt unwilling now to play with toys of sin.
Those who let God judge do not heed the body's witnesses before the rapture of Christ's holy face and thus God judges you.
Accept God's word for what you are for God bears witness to your beautiful creation and the mind whose thought created your reality.
What can the body mean to the one who knows the glory of the father?
What whispers of the ego can God hear?
What could convince God that your sins are real?
Let God be the judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world.
God's lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.
God will remove all faith that you have placed in pain,
Disaster,
Suffering,
And loss.
God gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances.
God gives you vision that can behold the gentle face of Christ in all appearances.
You will no longer doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God.
God will judge all happenings and teach the single lesson that all experiences contain.
God will select the elements in your experiences which represent the truth.
God will disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams.
God will reinterpret all you see and all occurrences,
Each circumstance,
And every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from God's one frame of reference,
Wholly unified,
And sure.
You will see the love beyond the hate,
The constancy in change,
The pure in sin,
And only heaven's blessing on the world.
Such is your resurrection for your life is not a part of anything you see.
Your real life stands beyond the body and beyond the world.
Your real life stands past every witness for unholiness.
Your real life stands within the holy,
Holy as itself in everyone and everything.
God's voice will speak to you of nothing but your higher self.
God's voice will speak to you of your creator who is one with your higher self.
So will you see the holy face of Christ in everything.
So will you hear in everything no sound except the echo of God's voice.
Let's practice today without words except at the beginning of the time we spend with God.
We introduce these times with but this single slow repeating of the thought with which the day begins.
Repeat after me.
All things are echoes of the voice for God.
All things are echoes of the voice for God.
Now we watch our thoughts appealing silently to God who sees the elements of truth in all things.
Let God evaluate each thought that comes to mind.
Remove the element of dreams and give them back again as clean ideas that do not contradict the will of God.
As we give God our thoughts,
God gives them back to us as miracles.
Miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness that God wills his child as proof of eternal love.
As each thought is thus transformed it takes on healing power from the mind which saw the truth in it.
From the mind that failed to be deceived by what was falsely added by the ego.
All the threads of fantasy are gone.
What remains is unified into a perfect thought that offers its perfection everywhere.
Give your thoughts to God.
I'll be silent.
As we give God our thoughts,
It gives them back to us as miracles.
We watch appealing silently to God who sees the elements of truth in all things.
Let God evaluate each thought that comes to mind.
Remove the element of dreams and give them back again as clean ideas that do not contradict the will of God.
As each thought is thus transformed it takes on healing power from the mind which saw the truth in it.
As each thought is thus transformed it takes on healing power from the mind that failed to be deceived by what was falsely added by the ego.
All the threads of fantasy are gone.
What remains is unified into a perfect thought that offers its perfection everywhere.
Awake.
Spend 15 minutes giving your thoughts to God and gladly give another 15 more before you go to sleep.
Your ministry begins as all your thoughts are purified.
So you are taught to teach the child of God the holy lesson of God's sanctity.
No one can fail to listen when you hear the voice for God.
Give honor to God's child.
Everyone will share the thoughts with you which God has re-translated in your mind.
Such is your Eastertide.
So you lay the gift of snow white lilies on the world,
Replacing the witnesses to sin and death.
Through your transfiguration is the world redeemed.
Through your transfiguration is the world joyfully released from guilt.
Now do we lift our resurrected minds in gladness and in gratitude to God who has restored our sanity to us and we will hourly remember God who is salvation and deliverance.
As we give thanks the world unites with us and happily accepts our holy thoughts which heaven has corrected and made pure.
Now has our ministry begun at last to carry around the world the joyous news that truth has no illusion that the peace of God through us belongs to everyone.
All things are echoes of the voice for God.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
