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Study of Text, Chapter 13: VII. Attainment of the Real World, P 14. 10-18-16

VII. Attainment of the Real World, P 14

14 Whenever you are tempted to undertake a useless journey that would lead away from light, remember what you really want, and say:
The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ, and where else would I go? What need have I but to awake in Him?

Journal
It is still easy for me to wander away from the light, but I find that I don’t like the darkness any longer. As soon as I notice what I have done, I change my mind. I don’t want to take any more useless journeys. I was doing some work that required me to explain something to a new employee. She had done it wrong and I was showing her how to correct it. She began to argue with me and tried to show me that I was the one who was wrong. I told her no. I told her this is the way it must be done, and then I walked away.

She does this kind of thing all the time, and I thought I was over letting it bother me, but I kept thinking how foolish it was for her to argue with me. I thought about telling my boss that this is the reason I don’t work with her. After a few minutes of this, I stopped and thought about it. I just don’t want to feel like this. I don’t want to judge anyone, because I have to give up peace in order to do so. I don’t want to teach myself or anyone else that there is more value in being right than there is in being in union.

I recognized I had taken a wrong turn and was on another useless journey that was not leading me unto Christ. At first, I kept being pulled back into my righteous indignation. I reminded myself that I chose to be in union with the Holy Spirit, and that I want an unbroken union with Him. I asked the Holy Spirit to purify my mind of any thoughts that are opposed to joining. As I allowed my mind to be healed and soothed by the Holy Spirit, the whole situation became absurd to me.

This woman is just trying to find peace, just like I am. When she feels wrong about something it upsets her and she doesn’t feel peaceful. So she thinks she has to be right about everything. Being right feels like salvation to her. I can certainly understand that. Wasn’t I just doing the same thing? I wanted to be right more than I wanted to walk in the light. Isn’t that the same as believing that being right is my salvation?

Thank you, Holy Spirit, for enlightening my mind.

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