Daily Inspiration

Remembering the Strength of God in Us

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.

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. ³For what appears to hide the face of Christ is powerless before His majesty, and disappears before His holy sight.

Learn, then, the happy habit of response to all temptation to perceive yourself as weak and miserable with these words:

²I am as God created me. ³His Son can suffer nothing. ⁴And I am His Son.

⁵Thus is Christ’s strength invited to prevail, replacing all your weakness with the strength that comes from God and that can never fail. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.2:3–3:1;4:1-3;5:1-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God does not condemn. He knows that He created His Son eternally one with Himself. That is why we always have the option to change our belief about what we are. Beliefs do not change Reality. The ego is the belief that it is possible to be separate from our Father. It is the denial that God’s Love and strength are ours, without limit. While we identify with the ego, we will feel vulnerable to harm from ‘outside’ forces.

As we learn to accept the fact that we are God’s Son, our sense of vulnerability will fade. Our confidence in Christ’s strength in us will grow. We will feel the strength of our Father’s Love and join in Love’s extension to the world.

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