Giant Strides, Week 9 of 11, ACIM Lesson 155, I will step back and let Him lead the way. 3/2/24

Our lesson today,
I will step back and let Him lead the way… is the prerequisite for miracles.

2 The world is an illusion. ²Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusions and avoid their own reality. ³Yet when they find their own reality is even here, then they step back and let it lead the way. ⁴What other choice is really theirs to make? [CE W-155.2:1-4]

³You walk this path as others walk, nor do you seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. ⁴Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way which God has opened up to you, and them through you. [CE W-155.5:3-4]
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6 This is the way salvation works. ²As you step back, the Light in you steps forward and encompasses the world. ³It heralds not the end of sin in punishment and death. ⁴In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. ⁵It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not frightening—ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach to God Himself for such a senseless whim?

7 Yet you have wasted many, many years on just this foolish thought.
[CE W-156.6-7]
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6 Fear is always a sign of strain, which arises whenever the will to do conflicts with what you do. ²This situation arises in two major ways:

1) ³You can will to do conflicting things, either simultaneously or successively. ⁴This produces conflicting behavior, which would be tolerable to the self (though not necessarily to others) except for the fact that the part of the will that wants something else is outraged.
2) ⁵You can behave as you think you should, without entirely willing to do so. ⁶This produces consistent behavior, but entails great strain within the self.

7 If you think about it, you will realize that in both cases the will and the behavior are out of accord, resulting in a situation in which you are doing what you do not will.
[CE T-2.IX.6-7]
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Sacrifice: …²Many have chosen to renounce the world while still believing its reality, and they have suffered from a sense of loss and have not been released accordingly.

Deprivation: …³Others have chosen nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still deeper, which they have not understood.
[CE W-155.4:2-3]
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12 We walk to God. ²Pause and reflect on this. ³Could any way be holier, or more deserving of your effort, of your love, and of your full intent? ⁴What way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the holy Son of God? ⁵We walk to God. ⁶The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. ⁷What way but this could be a path that we would choose instead? [CE W-155.12]
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“Who walks with me?” ²This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. L. 156