II. Honesty, P 2
2 The peace of mind which the advanced teachers of God experience is largely due to their perfect honesty. It is only the wish to deceive that makes for war. No one at one with himself can even conceive of conflict. Conflict is the inevitable result of self-deception, and self-deception is dishonesty. There is no challenge to a teacher of God. Challenge implies doubt, and the trust on which God’s teachers rest secure makes doubt impossible. Therefore they can only succeed. In this, as in all things, they are honest. They can only succeed, because they never do their will alone. They choose for all mankind; for all the world and all things in it; for the unchanging and unchangeable beyond appearances; and for the Son of God and his Creator. How could they not succeed? They choose in perfect honesty, sure of their choice as of themselves.
Journal
This vision of the advanced teachers of God is so compelling that I long for it to be true for me in all circumstances. It is true for me sometimes now, maybe even most of the time. But I still have areas in my life where I experience conflict. Jesus says that this is the result of self-deception. For instance, yesterday I was riding with my daughter. She was just driving around to put the baby to sleep and took me down a road beside the river. She thought I would enjoy it because it is so pretty there.
She began to notice that I was tense and remarked on it. I said that I don’t enjoy riding right next to the water like that. There was very little bank and the road was almost level with the river. There is something about drop-offs like that that make me uneasy. For some reason, instead of just being uneasy, I became frightened. Probably, this happened because I have asked to look at whatever is left in my mind that is in error so that it can be undone, so I needed to feel the effect of this belief.
This fear of heights and other forms of drop-offs like with the river running so close to the road is self-deception. It is in contrast or in conflict with my belief that I am safe, that no matter what happens to the body, I remain safe. Understanding this, I see that it is not a fear of heights or fear of dropping off the road and into the river that needs correction. It is the belief that I am a body and so what happens to the body happens to me. I can’t believe that I am the Son of God and believe that I am this body. Those thoughts conflict and cause me distress.
So, I spent the rest of the day going back and forth with this. I know I am not this body, that I am spirit. I know that I am afraid of this body falling. Yikes! It makes no sense and this is distressing. Eventually, I must choose to believe in one or the other and believing I am a body is just not possible. So, I ask for correction of this insane belief that I can ever be in danger. I am so done with this fearful belief. I ask the Holy Spirit to remove it from my mind.
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