To say, “Of myself I can do nothing” is to gain all power. And yet it is but a seeming paradox. As God created you, you have all power. The image you made of yourself has none. The Holy Spirit knows the truth about you. The image you made does not. Yet, despite its obvious and complete ignorance, this image assumes it knows all things because you have given that belief to it. Such is your teaching, and the teaching of the world that was made to uphold it. But the Teacher Who knows the truth has not forgotten it. His decisions bring benefit to all, being wholly devoid of attack. And therefore incapable of arousing guilt.
Never forget that the Holy Spirit does not depend on your words. He understands the requests of your heart, and answers them. Does this mean that, while attack remains attractive to you, He will respond with evil? Hardly! For God has given Him the power to translate your prayers of the heart into His language. He understands that an attack is a call for help. And He responds with help accordingly. God would be cruel if He let your words replace His Own. A loving father does not let his child harm himself, or choose his own destruction. [His child] may ask for injury, but his father will protect him still. And how much more than this does your Father love His Son? (A Course in Miracles, M-29.4:2-12;6)
The ego is the denial of the Truth. Consequently it does not know the truth of What we are. The ego does not know what strength is because it denies Love, the only Source of strength. This is why the world is full of defenses. Having bought into the ego’s image of what we are, devoid of strength, it is inevitable that we we would feel a need to defend against an outside world.
But God has given us His Teacher Who knows the truth of What we are as God created us. He knows that we share God’s invulnerable strength. This Teacher is ever present in our mind, ready to teach us that we are still God’s Son, with all His strength, joy, peace and Love. Our hearts are constantly praying to remember What we are. Feelings of inadequacy, depression, guilt and anger are recognized by our Teacher as prayers for help.
Our hearts know that we need to remember that we remain as God created us. If we are willing to open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s loving lessons, we will learn to recognize the ego’s false images as meaningless and ineffectual. We will experience the blessing of God’s Love surrounding us. We will feel His comfort and His strength. His joy will inspire us to teach only Love and learn that we are Love.
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