Temptation has one lesson it would teach, in all its forms, wherever it occurs. [Temptation] would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty, and bound by what [the body] orders him to feel. It sets the limits on what he can do; its power is the only strength he has; his grasp cannot exceed its tiny reach. Would you be this, if Christ appeared to you in all His glory, asking you but this:
Choose once again if you would take your place among the saviors of the world, or would remain in hell, and hold your brothers there. [Thinking we and our brothers are separate bodies with separate minds.]
For He has come, and He is asking this.
How do you make the choice? How easily is this explained! You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. And what you choose is what you think is real. Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given [weakness] no power. And the light of Christ in you is given charge of everything you do. For you have brought your weakness unto Him, and He has given you His strength instead.
Learn, then, the happy habit of response to all temptation to perceive yourself as weak and miserable with these words:
I am as God created me. His Son can suffer nothing. And I am His Son.
Thus is Christ’s strength invited to prevail, replacing all your weakness with the strength that comes from God and that can never fail. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.1-2;5:1-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The source of all our fear, guilt, sense of inadequacy and unworthiness comes from believing we are a body. This belief is the choice for separation instead of accepting our eternal unity with Love. Fortunately this choice is reversible. We have not lost our connection with our Source. For the moment we chose separation over God’s unity, He gave us the means to reverse the choice.
In our mind remains Christ, our unbreakable Link to our Creator. Because the light of Christ is in our mind, we can choose to let the Him direct all our choices instead of the split mind of the ego. This is the choice for the strength of God instead of the weakness of the empty image of a body that has no meaning of its own. Christ leads us away from the temptation to perceive ourselves as a body and deliver us from from the thought system of separation.
Today let us together choose to put Christ, our true Self, in charge of all our doing and thus choose His strength instead of the ego’s weakness.
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