³You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. ⁴And what you choose is what you think is real. ⁵Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power. ⁶And the light of Christ in you is given charge of everything you do. ⁷For 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. ²In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” ³He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. ⁴He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. ⁵He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you. ⁶His Holiness is yours because He is the only power that is real in you. ⁷His strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.
The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. ²Be 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.2:3–4:2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
It doesn’t seem that we choose everything that we experience in this world. No one in their right mind would choose pain and suffering, fear and guilt. It is not our right mind that makes this choice. The insane believe what they perceive is real and true and will not raise it to question. They defend, even unto death, the “reality” of their perceptions.
Beneath these perceptions the Mind of Christ remains in us. It lovingly calls to us to choose a different way of seeing. It offers us the vision of Christ which sees beyond the false perceptions to the changeless, eternal presence of the Self God created one with Him in Love. We answer the call by reminding ourselves that we are God’s Son. We remain as He created us.
All God’s peace and strength are ours now. We free ourselves from our insane beliefs by bringing our perceptions to the Christ within with willingness to choose Christ’s vision to see them differently. With this practice, we bring healing to the world. We become messengers of God with the message that His peace is now and forever. We are His Love and His joy. We remain as God created us.
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