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3 The seemingly new abilities that may be gathered on the way can be very helpful. Given to the Holy Spirit, and used under His direction, they are valuable teaching aids. To this, the question of how they arise is irrelevant. The only important consideration is how they are used. Taking them as ends in themselves, no matter how this is done, will delay progress. Nor does their value lie in proving anything; achievements from the past, unusual attunement with the “unseen,” or “special” favors from God. God gives no special favors, and no one has any powers that are not available to everyone. Only by tricks of magic are special powers “demonstrated.”
My ability to write and to teach are the abilities I was guided to develop because these are the abilities Holy Spirit would have me use for His purposes. They have nothing to do with the “me” self. I have always wanted to write, but the reason I wanted to write was so that I could be famous and make lots of money. That was the ego’s reason. But every time I tried to write it was just horrible. Still, the desire was there and I would try from time to time with the same discouraging results.
The desire to write was there because Holy Spirit had use for it, but it was not time. I had to get to a place in my mind where I was willing to use that skill for a higher purpose. I think that if I had been an established author earlier in my life, I would have interfered with the Holy Spirit’s message. I would have thought I knew something about writing and would have listened to my thinking mind. I can only hear one voice at a time and to effectively hear Holy Spirit, I must stop listening to ego.
I wonder what use the Holy Spirit has for other forms of communication. For instance what about a gift such as mediums have? I try to imagine what that would be like and how I could be used if that were a gift of mine. I can see how a person might use it as a parlor trick, or to make themselves feel special, to impress people, or to make money. Evidently really good mediums can make a great deal of money, and there is nothing wrong with making money, but I can see how any of these uses would be a really major distraction and delay if any of them were the chosen purpose.
On the other hand, that gift could be given to the Holy Spirit for His use and I imagine that it could be very helpful. It might be useful to encourage the belief that death does not affect life, that we continue as before with or without a body. Whatever use it has, if it is used by the Holy Spirit, only good could come of it.
Because I don’t have any of these psychic gifts I have been imagining that one of them would develop. I am doing this so that I can understand what Jesus is telling me. I imagined possible uses and also imagined pitfalls and thought I was through. Then Holy Spirit caught my attention and pointed out that to be helpful, any gift should be used by Holy Spirit, rather than for Holy Spirit.
I thought about that for a moment and realized that it might be easy to fall into the ego habit of deciding for myself how an unusual ability should be used. It would be easy to fool myself if I seemed to be using it for spiritual purposes, but all things, to be truly useful, must be placed under Holy Spirit’s direction. I see what You mean, Holy Spirit; by You, rather than for You.
Once again, I see that I must become empty of self-will if I want to experience Self-Will. The ego would want to use unusual abilities to glorify Myron. A different choice would be to set aside that idle wish and look within the Heart for my True desire. I would find that I want to become empty of self so that I could be lived by Self.
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