“You’ve Got God!” - ACIM
As millions do everyday, I turned on my computer, went online to check my email and I heard the familiar words, “You got mail!” There is was no doubt I had mail, I saw the mail in my little mailbox icon and my computer knew it and spoke those words to me with conviction. I had mail, there was no question about it.
What would happen if when we opened our eyes everyday a little Voice said to us, “You’ve got God?” Our internal mailbox would be filled with God’s guidance for us. There would be no doubt we had Him and His guidance, for the Voice would tell us so with conviction and that conviction would be enough to break through any doubt and assure our hearts that we were safe and complete.
It seems to me that this is what A Course in Miracles is trying to remind us of through every workbook lesson, each page of its text and every section of its manual. “We’ve got God”…or rather, God has us.
The process of having that conviction and feeling that presence is not one of seeking for God but rather the process of seeking for all the barriers we have built up against God’s presence. As we read in the Course….
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false.” (T315/338)
The presence of God is always within us. That does not need to be proven: it is the truth. The idea that we think we are separated from God does not diminish God. Our mistaken thinking may bring us pain, guilt and fear, but this does not lessen the power of God. Our seeming weaknesses or challenges appear to weaken us in our thinking. Does this thinking really weaken us…the truth of who we are? Of course not, but our thinking can seem to make it so for us. So what do we do to awaken the power of God in our minds? To know that we are internally filled with God….that “You’ve got God?”
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Article by Beverly Hutchinson McNeff
