Just how to Be Reborn In the Light of Christ

[Asad shaikh]

Jesus was a man who reflected the Light of Christ. He reflected our actual being as the Christ, and probably the most a body can ever be, is just a reflection of the mind.

Once the mind becomes pure and unified, it recognizes Itself as the Mind of Christ. When that Divine Mind is reflected in a body, you've a reflection of this, but a reflection is not actuality. Christ is just a Light that is just before time.

How Can We Be Reborn In the Light of Christ Within?

We've to avoid protecting the crumbling ego self-concept, and expose and release the shame that is hidden in the mind. When you have been judged as a failure, it's simple to say, “Well, I failed before for sure. acim I was a failure before, nonetheless it isn't me. That is not me. I'm alive. I'm reborn again in Christ. I'm fresh and clean and clear in this moment, and I've nothing regarding the self concept.”

Forgiveness allows us to stop protecting the crumbling image that the ego made from us.

When we are reborn in the Light of Christ, whenever we give all our relationships and everything of time and space to the Holy Spirit for His purpose, everything changes.

David: “That's the way my life has been. My connection with the dream of life has fundamentally shifted because my purpose shifted for me. It is for each of us. It can't be only for this 1 or that one, because God doesn't have ‘chosen ones.' ”

Each one is called, and the Course says that few elect to listen. Have you been likely to be content with that metaphor of “few elect to listen”? Who's got to listen? I've got to listen. I've got to follow. I've got to be the main one! I've got to be the one which steps up, and says, “I will answer the Call.” Like Neo in The Matrix became The One.

Jesus wants us to overlook the images of the entire world and to select the Light. His goal is to take us to the vision of Christ, that will be non-perceptual, to be reborn and feel anew, fresh, and alive. He wants us to be that reflection of the Light of Christ that is shining radiantly within!