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 it 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.
Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you. His Holiness is yours because He is the only power that is real in you. His strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.
Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.2:3-3:7;4:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
When we choose the ego as our guide, we choose weakness. The ego denies the Love of God, which is the only Power. The only power the ego seems to have is what we give it by choosing it as our leader. We can choose differently.
Despite our allegiance to the ego’s denial of God, the Holy Spirit remains ever present in our mind. We withdraw power from the ego, which has none of its own, when we choose to follow the Holy Spirit. This choice to let the Holy Spirit guide is available to us in every moment.
If we are tempted to perceive threat, loss, sickness or death as real, we can call upon the Holy Spirit for help. He is ever present in our mind to bring us the comfort of God’s Love. His Light dispels the ego’s denials. His vision shows us our invulnerability, the Love we are and the joy that is inherent in the Life we live in God. The Holy Spirit has infinite patience because He knows that we are God’s Son eternally. He knows we cannot fail to find our way Home and remember the Love we are.
Today, for every apprehension, sadness or perception of harm, we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide to help us remember we are eternally safe in the Love of God.
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