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The Justice of Heaven
What can it be but arrogance to think your little errors cannot be undone by Heaven’s justice? Are you willing to be released from all effects of sin? If you answer “yes” it means you will forego all values of this world in favor of the peace of Heaven. Not one sin would you retain. It means that truth has greater value now than all illusions. You recognize that truth must be revealed to you, because you know not what it is.
To give reluctantly is not to gain the gift, because you are reluctant to accept it. God’s justice warrants gratitude, not fear. Nothing you give is lost to you or anyone, but cherished and preserved in Heaven, where all of the treasures given to God’s Son are kept for him, and offered anyone who but holds out his hand in willingness they be received. Nor is the treasure less as it is given out. Each gift but adds to the supply. For God is fair.
Be certain any answer to a problem the Holy Spirit solves will always be one in which no one loses. This must be true, because He asks no sacrifice of anyone. An answer which demands the slightest loss to anyone has not resolved the problem, but has added to it and made it greater, harder to resolve and more unfair. When anyone is seen as losing, he has been condemned, and punishment becomes his due instead of justice.
The sight of innocence makes punishment impossible and justice sure. The Holy Spirit’s perception leaves no ground for an attack. Only a loss could justify attack, and loss of any kind He cannot see.
The world solves problems in another way. It sees a resolution as a state in which it is decided who shall win and who shall lose; how much one shall take and how much the loser can still defend. Only justice can set up a state in which there is no loser; no one left unfairly treated and deprived, and thus with grounds for vengeance. Problem solving cannot be vengeance, which at best can bring another problem added to the first.
The Holy Spirit’s problem solving is the way in which the problem ends. Justice means no one can lose. Miracles depend on justice. Not as it is seen through this world’s eyes, but as God knows it and as knowledge is reflected in the sight the Holy Spirit gives.
A miracle is justice. It is not a special gift to some, to be withheld from others as less worthy, more condemned, and thus apart from healing. Where is salvation’s justice if some errors are unforgivable, and warrant vengeance in place of healing and return of peace?
Everyone is equally entitled to His gift of healing and deliverance and peace. To give a problem to the Holy Spirit to solve for you means that you want it solved. No one can be unjust to you, unless you have decided first to be unjust. And then must problems rise to block your way, and peace be scattered by the winds of hate.
Seek to deny and you will feel denied. Seek to deprive, and you have been deprived. Only forgiveness offers miracles.
The little problems that you keep and hide become your secret sins, because you did not choose to let them be removed. So they gather dust and grow, until they cover everything that you perceive and leave you fair to no one. Bitterness, with vengeance justified and mercy lost, condemns you as unworthy of forgiveness. The unforgiven have no mercy to bestow upon another. Your sole responsibility must be to take forgiveness for yourself.
The miracle that you receive, you give. No one can lose, and everyone must benefit. It is received and given equally, It is awareness that giving and receiving are the same. It sees no differences where none exists. Thus it is the same for everyone, because it sees no differences in them. Its offering is universal, and it teaches but one message:
What is God’s belongs to everyone, and is his due.
[The above text is excerpted and slightly adapted from a portion of Chapter 25, The Justice of God, of the book “A Course in Miracles”.]
