³You cannot judge. ⁴You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. ⁵It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt.
⁶Let [the Holy Spirit] be Judge …of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. ⁷His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.
He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering and loss. ²He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances, and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them. ³You will no longer doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God, for He will judge all happenings, and teach the single lesson that they all contain.
He will select the elements in them which represent the truth, and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams. ²And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. ³And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven’s blessing on the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-151.4:3-5;9:6–11:3. See also ACIM Lesson 151 Insights.)
The dream of separation shows us a world of differences. To function in this world we must learn to judge the differences. We use judgment to learn what forms are beneficial and what forms are not. If we accept the ego’s judgments, it will always reinforce our sense of guilt and fear. To awaken from this hellish dream, we need to let go of our attempts to judge anything on our own.
If we let the Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf, we will learn a different way of seeing. Instead of perceiving justifications for guilt and fear, we will learn to see evidence of the presence of Love everywhere. We will learn that only Love is real. We will learn that we are eternally safe in the changeless Love of God.
Today we choose to learn from the Judge Whose only purpose is to teach the truth that we are Love, created by Love and eternally safe. His lessons will guide us on a happy journey of return to our true Identity as Love and nothing else.
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