Day 154

Today's Lesson:

I am among the ministers of God.

Today let us be neither arrogant nor falsely humble. We have gone beyond such foolishness. We cannot judge ourselves, nor need we do so. These are but attempts to hold decision off, and to delay commitment to our function. It is not our part to judge our worth, nor can we know what role is best for us; what we can do within a larger plan we cannot see in its entirety. Our part is cast in heaven, not in hell. And what we think is weakness can be strength; what we believe to be our strength is often arrogance.

Whatever our appointed role is, it was selected by the Voice for God, Whose function is to speak for us as well. Seeing our strengths exactly as they are, and equally aware of where they can be best applied, for what, to whom and when, He chooses and accepts each of our parts for us. He does not work without our own consent. But He is not deceived in what we are, and listens only to His Voice in us.

The salvation of the world is dependent upon our joining with the Voice of God. It abolishes sin and guilt in our minds that God created sinless. When our minds become aware of Who created them, and of God's lasting union with it, that Self becomes one reality where its will and that of God are joined.

We are messengers who did not write the messages we deliver; nor do we question those messages. It is enough that we accept the messages and deliver them to those intended to receive them. If we determine what the messages should be, or what their purpose is, or where they should be carried, we are failing to perform our proper part as bringer of the Word.

The difference in delivering messages for God and for the world is that the messages we deliver for God are intended first for us. And only as we can accept them for ourselves will we become able to bring them further, and to give them everywhere that they were meant to be.

If we receive the messages of God, then we become His messenger. We are appointed now. In the giving is our own acceptance of what we received.

It is the joining that we undertake to recognize today. We will not seek to keep our minds apart from Him Who speaks for us, for it is but our voice we hear as we attend Him. We practice giving Him what He would have, that we may recognize His gifts to us. He needs our voice the He may speak through us. He needs our hands to hold His messages, and carry them to those whom He appoints. He needs our feet to bring us where He wills, that those who wait in misery may be at last delivered. And He needs our will united with His Own, that we may be the true receivers of the gifts He gives.

Let us but learn this lesson for today: We will not recognize what we receive until we give it. We have heard this said a hundred ways, a hundred times, and yet we still don't believe it. But this is sure: until we believe it, we will receive a thousand miracles and then a thousand more, but will now know that God Himself has left no gift beyond what we already have; nor has denied the tiniest blessings to His Son. What can this mean to us, until we have identified with Him and with His Own?

Today's lesson, then, is:

I am among the ministers of God, and I am grateful that I have the
means by which to recognize that I am free.

The world recedes as we light up our minds, and realize these holy words are true. They are the message sent to us today from our Creator. Now we demonstrate how they have changed our minds about ourselves, and what our function is. For as we prove that we accept no will we do not share, our many gifts from our Creator will spring to our sight and leap into our hands, and we will recognize what we received.

Miracles I'm noticing:

Today's lesson is a great reminder to me that the miracles are and will always be everywhere - it is only my part to recognize and accept them, first for myself, and then for others. That is my part. As I recognize my own strengths and can use them not in an arrogant way, but not hide them in a humble way (which, when you think about it, really is arrogant, because it is allowing me to make that decision over the One Who created me), I will see that my being allows others to be what the are created to be as well.

I've been noticing gratitude a lot more recently - and I know it's true gratitude because it makes tears come to my eyes. The green grass and leaves and colorful flowers in my yard are there thanks to all the rain we've had recently. This morning there is a cool breeze which ripples the leaves on the three poplar trees in my backyard and as I write this this morning with the patio door wide open, I can hear the birds and the leaves and all is really, really good. It is for being alive at this time and in this place that I am truly, truly grateful.