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Welcoming Lessons in Love

Humility will never ask that you remain content with littleness. But it does require that you be not content with less than greatness that comes not of you. Your difficulty with the holy instant arises from your fixed conviction that you are not worthy of it. And what is this but the determination to be as you would make yourself? God did not create His dwelling place unworthy of Him. And if you believe He cannot enter where He wills to be, you must be interfering with His Will. You do not need the strength of willingness to come from you, but only from His Will.

The holy instant does not come from your little willingness alone. It is always the result of your small willingness combined with the unlimited power of God’s Will. You have been wrong in thinking that it is needful to prepare yourself for Him.

In preparing for the holy instant, do not attempt to make yourself holy to be ready to receive it. That is but to confuse your role with God’s. Atonement cannot come to those who think that they must first atone, but only to those who offer it nothing more than simple willingness to make way for it. Purification is of God alone, and therefore for you. Rather than seek to prepare yourself for Him, try to think thus:

I who am host to God am worthy of Him.
He Who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His plan.
But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it.
(A Course in Miracles, T-18.IV.3:1-4:3;5:4-13. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We do not have to work to achieve holiness. We only need to accept the holiness that God gave us when He created His Son one with Him. Our true Self is God’s Son. The world we see is a dream of being different from what God created. It is an attempt to usurp the Will of God and make our own world. This dream makes our holiness invisible to us. Yet it remains our only Reality.

We reclaim our Reality by being willing to receive the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Truth. Our willingness to be taught is all that is needed. The Holy Spirit’s lessons in Truth are empowered by the limitless strength of God’s Love. Let us be willing today, to welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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