ACIM Lesson 155: Exercise

"I Will Step Back and Let God Lead the Way"
Practice the exercises with great specificity, as will be indicated. This will help you to generalize the ideas involved to every situation in which you find yourself, and to everyone and everything in it. Be sure that you do not decide for yourself that there are some people, situations, or things to which the ideas are inapplicable. The very nature of true perception is that it has no limits. It is the opposite of the way you see it now.

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Welcome to Active Meditation, A Course in Miracles, Lesson 155. I will step back and let God lead the way, Is an illusion. Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions and avoid their own reality. When they find their own reality is even here, They step back and let it lead the way. What other choice is really theirs to make? To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, Is merely sanity. This is the simple choice we make today. The mad illusion will remain a while in evidence for those of us to look upon. The mad illusion will remain for those of us who chose to come and have not yet rejoiced, To find they were mistaken in their choice. They cannot learn directly from the truth because they have denied that the truth is so. They need a teacher who perceives their madness, A teacher who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them. This is our final journey which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way, For as truth goes before us, It also goes before our brothers and sisters who will follow us. We walk to God. Repeat after me. I will step back. I will let God lead the way. I would walk along the road to God. Pause and reflect on that. I will step back. I will let God lead the way. I would walk along the road. Walk safely now. Walk carefully because this path is new to you and you may find that you are tempted still to walk ahead of truth and let illusions be your guide. Your holy brothers and sisters have been given to you to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. Truth goes before you now that they may see something with which they can identify. Something they understand leads the way. At this journey's end, There will be no gap, No distance between truth and you. All illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well. Nothing will be left to keep the truth apart from God's completion, Holy as himself. Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go, But one who knows goes with you. Let God lead you with the rest. When dreams are over, When time has closed the door on all the things that pass, When miracles have no purpose, The holy child of God will make no more journeys. There will be no wish to be an illusion rather than the truth, And we will step forth toward this as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. God cannot be deceived. God's trust has made your pathway certain, Your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers and sisters, Nor will you fail yourself. Now God asks that you think of him a while each day, That he may speak to you and tell you of his love, Reminding you how great is God's trust, How limitless is God's love in your name and God's own, Which are the same. We practice gladly with this thought today. Repeat after me. I will step back. I will let God lead the way. I will walk along the road. I will step back. I will let God lead the way. I would walk along the road to God. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace.