Any thought system that confuses God and the body must be insane.
The body is the ego’s home by its own election. It is the only identification with which the ego feels safe, since the body’s vulnerability is its own best argument that you cannot be of God.
…the one question that is never asked by those who pursue [problems] is, “What for?” This is the question that you must learn to ask in connection with everything. What is the purpose? Whatever it is, it will direct your efforts automatically. When you make a decision of purpose, then, you have made a decision about your future effort; a decision that will remain in effect unless you change your mind.
Only your allegiance to it gives the ego any power over you. …The ego is nothing more than a part of your belief about yourself. Your other [real] life has continued without interruption, and has been and always will be totally unaffected by your attempts to dissociate it. (A Course in Miracles, T-4.V.3:1;4:1-2;6:7-11; VI.1:2,6-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The ego’s primary purpose is to deny Love’s oneness, i.e. deny God. Since this is an insane purpose, the ego needs to constantly defend itself. It uses the body’s vulnerability to “prove” that we are not eternal. Death is its ultimate proof. Only our allegiance to the ego makes the body and its inevitable end seem real.
But we can change our allegiance. The practice of asking the Holy Spirit of everything, “What is this for?” opens the door to the return of sanity to our mind. The world seems to present an endless stream of problems. Many seem out of our reach to resolve. Some we think we can solve on our own, especially the “little” ones. But the Course teaches that there is no difficulty in miracles; there is only one problem—believing in separation.
The more we are vigilant to what everything is for, the faster our mind will return to the peace and joy of its Home in Love. We need to not reserve some problems for us to solve on our own. This only prolongs our allegiance to the ego. It cannot resolve any problem because it is the source of all problems.
The Holy Spirit is our unbreakable link with the Love that dissolves all apparent problems. Let us join today in a dedication to following Love’s lead moment by moment.
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