The ego cannot teach you anything as long as your will is free, because you will not listen to it. It is not your will to be imprisoned because your will is free. That is why the ego is the denial of free will. It is never God Who coerces you, because He shares His Will with you. His Voice teaches only in accordance with His Will, but that is not the Holy Spirit’s lesson because that is what you are. The lesson is that your will and God’s cannot be out of accord because they are one. This is the undoing of everything the ego tries to teach.
The ego tries to teach that you want to oppose God’s Will. This unnatural lesson cannot be learned, and the attempt to learn it is a violation of your own freedom, making you afraid of your will because it is free. The Holy Spirit opposes any imprisoning of the will of a Son of God, knowing that the Will of the Son is the Father’s. The Holy Spirit leads you steadily along the path of freedom, teaching you how to disregard or look beyond everything that would hold you back.
When you have learned that your will is God’s, you could no more will to be without Him than He could will to be without you. This is freedom and this is joy. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.II.3:1-7;4:1-4;6:4-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Everyone wants to be happy. But if we identify with the ego, we are seeking happiness where it cannot be found because the ego is dedicated to seeking and not finding. The ego is the denial of our true Will, where happiness can be found.
When we identify with the ego, we are afraid of our will, which is God’s Will. God seems to be demanding that we give up our happiness because the ego insists our happiness can be found in specialness and separation. The ego is a liar.
But we have another Teacher in our mind Who knows our true Will and will help us remember and accept it. The goal of this Teacher is to lead us to lasting happiness. The lessons of our inner Teacher help us learn to overlook the ego’s false images to see the truth of the Love and joy of God that is our natural condition. His lessons in forgiveness remove the ego’s imprisoning veil of separation and free us to be what our true Will wills us to be.
Today we choose lessons in forgiveness because we choose to be happy.
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