⁵God’s teachers appear to be many, for that is what is the world’s need.
Why is the illusion of many necessary? ²Only because reality is not understandable to the deluded. ³Only very few can hear God’s Voice at all, and even they cannot communicate His messages directly through the Spirit which gave them. ⁴They need a medium through which communication becomes possible to those who do not realize that they are spirit. ⁵A body they can see. ⁶A voice they understand and listen to, without the fear that truth would encounter in them. ⁷Do not forget that truth can come only where it is welcomed without fear. ⁸So do God’s teachers need a body, for their unity could not be recognized directly.
Yet what makes God’s teachers is their recognition of the proper purpose of the body. ²As they advance in their profession, they become more and more certain that the body’s function is but to let God’s Voice speak through it to human ears. (A Course in Miracles, M-12.2:5;3:1–4:2)
What do we want to teach? What do we want to learn? These questions are the same, for we learn what we teach. And we teach by demonstrating what we are learning. Whenever we are following the Holy Spirit’s guidance, we are serving as a teacher of God.
It does not matter if we falter in our commitment to following the Holy Spirit’s lead. But we do need to prefer the Holy Spirit’s guidance. The more we practice choosing the Holy Spirit, the less willing we are to be duped by the ego in its insistence on making separation real.
The Holy Spirit always brings the blessing of learning that only Love is real. The more we welcome that blessing, the more we are motivated to teach only Love. We are among the teachers of God who bring healing to the world as we accept healing for ourselves.
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