12.03.23 "No Obstacles to Bar Your Way"

"Faith without works is dead" is a tradition Christian expression derived from the Epistle of James. Apparently James was Jesus’ half brother, father Joseph’s son by his previous marriage (apparently Joseph was a widower). I believe this teaching from brother James is something that we ACIM students could definitely embrace, and … it’s very easy to remember! I see this reflected in the ACIM teaching, "This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical application." (OrEd.WkBk.10.80)

We appear to live in a physical world and practically we need tools and techniques to help us do just that. ACIM provides those. Miracles are practical techniques which enable us to bypass time and achieve results we need to gracefully live in the world without excessive difficulties. And indeed ACIM promises to do just that, however we need faith. "Once you accept His plan as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you .... He will go before you making straight your path and leaving in your way no stones to trip on and no obstacles to bar your way. ... Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it." (OrEd.Tx.20.35-36) We need faith to accept Holy Spirit’s plan instead of our own.

When we do that we will have good works to give us the strong witness for that faith. Join me on Sunday to increase our faith, so that we can accomplish good works, deal successfully with life's obstacles, and enable our lives to move gracefully, gloriously, and abundantly.

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