⁸To order is to judge, and to arrange by judgment. ⁹Therefore it is not your function, but the Holy Spirit’s.
The only judgment involved is the Holy Spirit’s one division into two categories; one of love, and the other the call for love. ²You cannot safely make this division, for you are much too confused either to recognize love, or to believe that everything else is nothing but a call for love. ³You are too bound to form, and not to content. ⁴What you consider content is not content at all. ⁵It is merely form, and nothing else. ⁶For you do not respond to what a brother really offers you, but only to the particular perception of his offering by which the ego judges it.
⁴Every interpretation you would lay upon a brother is senseless. ⁵Let the Holy Spirit show him to you, and teach you both his love and his call for love. ⁶Neither his mind nor yours holds more than these two orders of thought.
The miracle is the recognition that this is true. ²Where there is love, your brother must give it to you because of what [Love] is. ³But where there is a call for love, you must give [Love] because of what you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.X.5:8-9;7;11:4–12:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
While we identify with the body, everything we perceive is bound to be misinterpreted. The body can only see form. But form has no meaning of its own. Its content is empty.
Yet Love is always present beyond the form. We are unaware of Love unless we join with the Holy Spirit and accept His judgment of all appearances. If a brother perceives himself as separate, he will feel lack of Love. This sense of lack produces calls for Love in many forms — fear, guilt, depression, anxiety, anger—anything but perfect happiness and peace.
As we let the Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf, He will teach us to recognize calls for Love and answer with Love. Of ourself alone, we do not know how to answer. The belief that we are alone stands as a barrier against the awareness of Love. As we let the Holy Spirit answer with Love through us, we learn of the Love we are and join with the Love in our brothers.
Today we resign as judge and turn over all judgment to the Holy Spirit, for we want to learn of the Love we are and remember our true Identity.
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