You cannot judge. You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. [The ego] guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt.
Hear not [the ego’s] voice. The witnesses it sends to prove to you its evil is your own are false, and speak with certainty of what they do not know.
Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way to recognize yourself, and let the Voice for God alone be Judge of what is worthy of your own belief. He will not tell you that your brother should be judged by what your eyes behold in him, nor what his body’s mouth says to your ears, nor what your fingers’ touch reports of him. He passes by such idle witnesses, which merely bear false witness to God’s Son. He recognizes only what God loves, and in the holy light of what He sees do all the ego’s dreams of what you are vanish before the splendor He beholds.
Let Him be Judge of what you are…
Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.
He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering and loss. He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances, and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 151a>, W-pI.151.4:3-5;6:1-2;7:1-8:1;9:6-10:2. See also ACIM Lesson 151 Insights.)
The body is an image the ego made to hide the truth that our true Self is formless Love and nothing else. It teaches us that we are a body as evidence that we are weak, vulnerable to attack and destined to die. It teaches that letting go of the body as our identity would be our obliteration.
But the Voice for God teaches that the body is nothing more than a false witness that denies the truth that we are God’s Son, forever united with and in God’s Love. His judgment dismisses the ego’s false witnesses so we can see past them to Light of Love that shines in every brother.
When we let the Holy Spirit be the Judge of all things on our behalf, we free ourselves to be the Love we truly are. Let us practice this today. It is worth the vigilance.
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