11. HOW IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD? P 2
2 Again we come to the question of judgment. This time ask yourself whether your judgment or the Word of God is more likely to be true. For they say different things about the world, and things so opposite that it is pointless to try to reconcile them. God offers the world salvation; your judgment would condemn it. God says there is no death; your judgment sees but death as the inevitable end of life. God’s Word assures you that He loves the world; your judgment says it is unlovable. Who is right? For one of you is wrong. It must be so.
Journal
“This time ask yourself whether your judgment or the Word of God is more likely to be true.”
The ego has an interpretation for everything, but it is always going to be in direct opposition to the Word of God. When I am not at peace, I look to my thoughts for the cause of my distress. Realizing that I must have asked the ego what something meant, I change my mind and ask the Holy Spirit to interpret for me. When I do this my mind returns to peace.
Do I feel sick? If so, I ask the Holy Spirit to heal my mind of those thoughts that manifest as sickness. If I am worried about money, I ask that the Holy Spirit correct my thinking because it cannot be that I lack anything. These days, if I have a problem, it tends to be centered around my uncertainty about the Course. Not that I ever doubt the Course, but that I become uncertain about what is meant about specific things.
I think that this is understandable. Before the separation, there was only God in our mind and therefore there were no choices to be made, no uncertainties. There was absolute clarity. Then we decided to experience the idea of differences and it all got muddy. Suddenly there were possible meanings and outcomes rather than certainty. Our experience with this has not been positive because it costs us our peace of mind.
The ego says my solution is to use the thinking mind to figure out what the Course means about everything and then to defend my interpretation as right, which means someone else is wrong. You can see where this is taking us… deeper into separation. The only true solution is to give every question to the Holy Spirit and let Him interpret for us. Then let us realize that the truth does not need our defense and that the only thing our brothers need from us is our love and trust.
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