God is praised whenever any mind learns to be wholly helpful.
This is
impossible without being wholly harmless, because the two beliefs must coexist.
The truly helpful are invulnerable, because they are not protecting their egos
and so nothing can hurt them. Their helpfulness is their praise of God, and he
will return their praise of him because they are like him, and they can rejoice
together. God goes out to them and through them, and there is great joy
throughout the kingdom. Every mind that is changed adds to this joy with its
individual willingness to share in it. The
truly helpful
are God's miracle workers, whom I direct until we are all united in the joy of
the kingdom. I will direct you to wherever you can be truly helpful, and to whoever
can follow my guidance through you. ACiM Text - Chapter Four -
The Illusions of the Ego - Creation and Communication
You can do much on behalf of your own healing and that of others
if, in a situation calling for help, you think of it this way:
I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to
represent him who sent me.
I do not have to
worry about what to say or what to do, because he who sent me will direct me.
I am content to be
wherever he wishes, knowing he goes there with me.
I will be healed as
I let Him teach me to heal.
ACiM - Text Chapter Two - The Separation and the
Atonement - Section 6 - Special Principles of Miracle Workers
The ego speaks in judgment, and the Holy Spirit reverses its
decision, much as a higher court has the power to reverse a lower court's
decisions in this world. The ego's decisions are always wrong, because they are
based on the error they were made to uphold. Nothing the ego perceives is
interpreted correctly. Not only does the ego cite Scripture for its purpose,
but it even interprets Scripture as a witness for itself. The Bible is a
fearful thing in the ego's judgment. Perceiving it as frightening, it
interprets it fearfully. Being afraid, you do not appeal to the higher court because
you believe its judgment would also be against you.
…
You need not fear the Higher Court will condemn you. It will merely dismiss the case against you.
There can be no case against a child of God, and every witness to guilt in
God's creations is bearing false witness to God himself. Appeal everything you
believe gladly to God's own Higher Court, because it speaks for him and therefore speaks truly. It will
dismiss the case against you, however carefully you have built it up. The case
may be fool-proof, but it is not God-proof. The Holy Spirit will not hear it,
because he can only witness truly. His verdict will always be "thine is
the Kingdom," because he was given to you to remind you of what you are.
ACiM Text - Chapter Five - Healing and Wholeness -
Time and Eternity
Sin is but error in a special form the ego venerates. It would
preserve all errors and make them sins. For here is its own stability, its
heavy anchor in the shifting world it made; the rock on which its church is built, and where its worshippers are bound to bodies,
believing the body's freedom is their own. ACiM - Text Chapter
Twenty-two - Salvation and the Holy Relationship - Section 4 - Reason and the
Forms of Error
Possession for its own sake is the ego's fundamental creed, a
basic cornerstone in the church es it
builds to itself. ACiM Text - Chapter Thirteen - The Guiltless World
- Section 8 Attainment of the Real World
I am sorry
when my brothers do not share my decision to hear only one Voice, because it
weakens them as teachers and as learners. Yet I know they cannot really betray
themselves or me, and that it is still on them that I must build my church. There is no choice in this, because only you can be the
foundation of God's church. A church is where an altar is, and the presence of the altar is what
makes the church holy. A
church that
does not inspire love has a hidden altar that is not serving the purpose for
which God intended it. I must found His church on you, because those who accept me as a model are literally my
disciples. Disciples are followers, and if the model they follow has chosen to
save them pain in all respects, they are unwise not to follow him. ACiM Text - Chapter Six - The
Lessons of Love - The Message of the Crucifixion
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