III. The God of Sickness, P 8
8 I do not bring God’s message with deception, and you will learn this as you learn that you always receive as much as you accept. You could accept peace now for everyone, and offer them perfect freedom from all illusions because you heard His Voice. But have no other gods before Him or you will not hear. God is not jealous of the gods you make, but you are. You would save them and serve them, because you believe that they made you. You think they are your father, because you are projecting onto them the fearful fact that you made them to replace God. Yet when they seem to speak to you, remember that nothing can replace God, and whatever replacements you have attempted are nothing.
Journal
My replacements, the gods I made to replace my true Father:
The body
Sickness
Jealousy
Fear and guilt
Sadness
These are the gods I worship daily, less than I used to, but still.
Jesus brought us the message that these gods have no power other than what we give them and that we can be saved from them simply by desiring only that. We will be healed of the sickness in our mind, but we will receive only and exactly what we are willing to accept. I have learned compassion as I realized that we are all fighting a hard battle, every single day. But I have also learned that it is a battle against nothing. I fight my own imaginary self. This is insanity and Jesus has brought us the cure.
When I was in the hospital for tests, I got caught up in the whole atmosphere of saving the body and so the body became very important to me, the center of my attention. I felt frail and vulnerable because the body is frail and vulnerable. This is what happens when we identify with the body. We think we are what the body is. Feeling frail and vulnerable, I felt fear. And actually, nothing was happening. I was fine. I was no different than I was the day before I had the strange symptoms that led up to the hospital stay.
When I made the decision to turn away from this kind of thinking, the ego tried to draw me back and still does. But who is the ego? This is not a power outside myself, this ego. It is simply a name I give my desire to remain separate from God. I am battling nothing but my own conflicted desires. There is no power outside the power of God, which is also my power.
I choose to stop using my own power to keep me in hell. Every time I notice the desire to feel afraid of what happens to the body, I remind myself that the body is a false god and I choose not to worship it. I am doing the same with all my false gods. I am reminding myself that Jesus offered to heal me and all that I need to do to receive that healing is to accept it.
I have made of myself a little thing of no value, but Jesus knows my value and he will restore that knowledge in my mind as well. I accept this healing.
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