Lesson 64: Let me not forget my function.
Now that we know our sole function in this world is to be a beacon of God’s Light of Love and save the world through our forgiveness, the ego will do everything it can to undermine us. It will create doubt. It will create fear. It will tell us that this woo-woo junk is so much crap, wishful thinking and spiritual bypass.
“Your function in the world is to be happy?” it scoffs. “How can you be happy while so many suffer?”
And that’s where we forget our function because suddenly, we’re right smack back in the middle of guilt. There are so many suffering people in the world – kids in cages, human trafficking, wars, plagues, famines. “How dare you be happy amid all of this suffering?” the ego demands. “That’s just another sign of your privilege in this world.”
I admit, it’s a tough argument to overcome. I mean, how can you even think of your own happiness at a time like this? Well, if there were such things as private thoughts and separation, then it might actually be a good question. However, since there really is only one of us here, it only takes one of us to truly nail this happiness thing for all of us to step out of our suffering.
The ego loves to tempt us to crawl back into our feelings of guilty separation and it has ample evidence to back up its claims. We, however, have the truth on our side. Our function, this lesson reminds us, “is to be the light of the world, a function given you by God. It is only the arrogance of the ego that leads you to question this, and only the fear of the ego that induces you to regard yourself as unworthy of the task assigned to you by God Himself. The world’s salvation awaits your forgiveness, because through it does the Son of God escape from all illusions, and thus from all temptation. The Son of God is you.”
As long as the ego can convince us that we are unworthy of the task of bearing God’s light in the world, the longer the ego can keep us all in a suffering, guilty state of being. This is not our Reality. Our Reality is Love, Joy, Peace and Compassion. Every decision we make can lead us to the unreality of suffering or the true Reality of Love. We can choose in each moment whether to continue our suffering (and by extension the world’s suffering) or we can choose to end that suffering by giving up our guilt and claiming our Divine Happiness.
This lesson encourages us to remember our function as the light of the world so we can be that forgiveness the world needs.
The Indian poet Mirabai puts it this way:
Before I
fell asleep last night
I laid awake and wondered:
What did I achieve
this day
just roaming around calling His name?
So I brought
before my mind’s eye all who I had been kind to,
and it turned out to be
all that I had seen.
I’d call
that — one hell of a
productive day!
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