It matters not what you may or may not have done in the world, there are no merit points for that, but living the will of God is the answer. This is a really radical teaching, and one that we all have a great deal of trouble with, for the conditioning goes very deep of looking into where we came from who our parents were, etc. all of which is about building up the meaning of the ego, and never being present in the present. Doing God's Will, is all about putting him first and ourselves second, and doing so, there is no need for our interpretation (from the past), so we can just be who we are. Here is the beautiful text of Lesson 328:
What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive
are upside down until we listen to the Voice for God. It seems that we
will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our
independence from the rest of God's creation is the way in which
salvation is obtained. Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss
and death. This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any
second to His Will. To join with His is but to find our own. 6 And
since our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recognize our
will.
There is no will but Yours. And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be. It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace. And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave as part of me. (ACIM:W-328.1-2)
There is no will but Yours. And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be. It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace. And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave as part of me. (ACIM:W-328.1-2)
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