All salvation rests on my decision.
1. Father,
Your trust in me has been so great that I must be worthy of it.
²You created me and know me as I am.
³And yet,
You placed the salvation of Your Son in my hands,
and let it rest upon my choice.I
⁴How great Your Love for me must be!
⁵And how great must be my holiness as well,
that You would give Your Son to me,
in the full certainty that He is safe—
He who remains a part of You,
and also a part of me,
for He is my Self.
2. And so today we pause once more to think how deeply our Father loves us.
²And how dear to Him still is His Son, who was created by His Love and completes Him.
I The salvation of the world and of the Son of God depends on me, just as his condemnation depended solely on me. How could it be otherwise, when ultimately I am the only thing that exists? Yet it is still difficult for me to accept this truth completely, for I remain entertained by my private world and personal stories.
God created me like Himself: free and infinitely powerful. That power is my inheritance, and also my responsibility. Today I choose to honor it and use it rightly, revoking the sentence I passed upon the world that condemned it to guilt and fear. Such is my prerogative as the Son of God. Today I will forgive the world, and thus I will forgive myself.
Jesus reminds us here that this is a course in will. All salvation rests upon my decision, because, in reality, everything I experience is the result of my will. The purpose of this training is that my will cease to uphold the ego’s dream and become aligned with the Will of God. That change of will is the core of salvation: it is what allows Light to replace darkness, and Love to replace fear.
If God trusts me enough to place salvation in my hands, how could I not trust in the power and holiness He has given me? Today I choose to make that mutual trust my guide and my strength, and to remember that in the decision to forgive lies the liberation of the entire Son of God.
All salvation rests upon my decision.
I accept Your trust, Father, and choose the Love that unites me with You.