As the teacher of God advances in his training, he learns one lesson with increasing thoroughness. He does not make his own decisions; he asks his Teacher for His answer, and it is this he follows as his guide for action. This becomes easier and easier, as the teacher of God learns to give up his own judgment. The giving up of judgment, the obvious prerequisite for hearing God’s Voice, is usually a fairly slow process, not because it is difficult, but because it is apt to be perceived as personally insulting. The world’s training is directed toward achieving a goal in direct opposition to that of our curriculum. The world trains for reliance on one’s judgment as the criterion for maturity and strength. Our curriculum trains for the relinquishment of judgment as the necessary condition of salvation. (A Course in Miracles, M-9.2)
The ego can be likened to the teenager who declares, “I want to make my own decisions.” It is the rejection of God’s Will and the insistence that it knows what will make us happy. What we believe will make us happy is what we believe is our salvation. Yet God’s Will for us is perfect happiness and the choice to deny God’s Will is a choice against happiness. It is a choice against salvation.
It is time to grow up. It is time to relinquish our childish insistence on being separate from the Source of true happiness just so we can say we made our own independent decisions. Choosing against the happiness already given us by our Creator guarantees depression, loneliness and a sense of being unloved; this is what we get each time we judge.
We become spiritually mature by relinquishing making judgments on our own and letting Holy Spirit judge on our behalf in all things. We need His help to distinguish between what will make us truly happy and what will leave us with nothing but depression, guilt and fear.
Today we would make no judgments on our own. We are willing to let God’s Voice speak to us through the day.
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