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Accepting God’s Strength and Love as Ours

Let us not fight our function. ²We did not establish it. ³It is not our idea. ⁴The means are given us by which it will be perfectly accomplished. ⁵All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility, and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy. ⁶What is given us to do, we have the strength to do. ⁷Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well.

All false humility we lay aside today, that we may listen to God’s Voice reveal to us what He would have us do. ²We do not doubt our adequacy for the function He will offer us. ³We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. ⁴And if He deems us worthy, so we are. ⁵It is but arrogance that judges otherwise.

Do as God’s Voice directs. ²And if It asks a thing of you which seems impossible, remember Who it is that asks, and who would make denial. ³Then consider this; which is more likely to be right? ⁴The Voice that speaks for the Creator of all things, Who knows all things exactly as they are, or a distorted image of yourself, confused, bewildered, inconsistent and unsure of everything? ⁵Let not [ego’s] voice direct you. ⁶Hear instead a certain Voice, which tells you of a function given you by your Creator Who remembers you, and urges that you now remember Him.

⁴He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. ⁵For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 186, W-186.2;4;12;13:4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 186 Insights.)

A sense of unworthiness and simultaneous arrogance are aspects of the ego thought system. The ego tries to convince us that we are unworthy of fulfilling the function God has given us. But if God has determined we are worthy, then it must be arrogance to believe God is wrong about us.

Our only difficulty in accepting the function God has given us is our belief in the ego as our identity. Being the denial of God, the ego is threatened by God. It feels powerless in His presence, which it is. The ego’s only seeming power comes from our belief. We are not left powerless in our mistaken belief because God has given us the means to undo our mistakes.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, He gives us His strength and Christ’s vision to show us the truth of Love beyond the ego’s deception. The Holy Spirit’s mission is to help us fulfill the function given us by God—to extend His Love as He has given It to us. This is our practice today.

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