A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T-22.V Weakness and Defensiveness

January 26, 2009

We are One with God.  Yes, we are God, inseparable from God and all God is.  This is our true being.  This is the Truth about who we are.  But do we really believe this?  Do we even come close to believing even part of this Truth about us?  God created us in God’s image.  Jesus said we would do greater things than he did on this earth.  We just don’t get this Truth about us.  Or perhaps we are afraid to step into this Truth about us.

If we are as God tells us we are, we have no need of defense.  A belief in the need for defense is a belief in weakness.  And this belief is contrary to everything God tells us we are.  Where does this belief in littleness and weakness come from?  It comes from the mistaken idea that we are or have ever been separate from God.  We have spent a lifetime building this mistaken image of a weak, sinful, lonely creature struggling for acceptance in God’s eyes and others’ eyes.  And all of this struggle has kept us so focused on the illusion of separateness that we have lost sight of who we really are.  We have lost the awareness of God that dwells deep within our own being.

Reason overcomes all illusion and does it effortlessly.  Reason knows that Reality offers no opposition.  Reality just is and has no weakness and therefore needs no defense.  Illusion, mistaken ideas need defense because of their weakness.  It cannot be difficult to walk the way of Truth when the only opposition is weakness.  We have strength within us that is of God and so we are the strong one in this seeming conflict.  A conflict with illusion, or nothing.

Only the idea of weakness and the resulting “need for defense keeps us from our true nature.  It is only this mistaken thought that keeps us from the awareness of God’s nature within us and the quiet power that is our gift.  Allow the gift of reason to rise within you and see the true nature of our being.  In the light of this reason, all illusion will fade away into nothingness and the light of Christ within us will shine brightly to light our way and the way of each one of us together.  Only in the light of reason will we see and be who we really are.  Let is be so.

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