Lesson 154

I am among the ministers of God.

p1. Let us today be neither arrogant nor falsely humble. 2
We have gone beyond such foolishness. 3 We cannot
judge ourselves, nor need we do so. 4 These
are but attempts to hold decision off, and to delay commitment to our function.
5 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. 6 Our part is
cast in Heaven, not in hell. 7 And what we think
is weakness can be strength; what we believe to be our strength is often
arrogance.

p2. Whatever your appointed role may be, it was selected by the
Voice for God, Whose function is to speak for you as well. 2
Seeing your 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
your part for you. 3 He does not work without
your own consent. 4 But He is not deceived in
what you are, and listens only to His Voice in you.

p3. It is through His ability to hear one Voice which is His Own
that you become aware at last there is one Voice in you. 2
And that one Voice appoints your function, and relays it to you, giving
you the strength to understand it, do what it entails, and to succeed in
everything you do that is related to it. 3 God
has joined His Son in this, and thus His Son becomes His messenger of unity
with Him.

p4. It is this joining, through the Voice for God, of Father and
of Son, that sets apart salvation from the world. 2
It is this Voice which speaks of laws the world does not obey; which promises
salvation from all sin, with guilt abolished in the mind that God created
sinless. 3 Now this mind becomes aware again
of Who created it, and of His lasting union with itself. 4
So is its Self the one reality in which its will and that of God are joined.

p5. A messenger is not the one who writes the message he delivers.
2 Nor does he question the right of him who
does, nor ask why he has chosen those who will receive the message that
he brings. 3 It is enough that he accept it,
give it to the ones for whom it is intended, and fulfill his role in its
delivery. 4 If he determines what the messages
should be, or what their purpose is, or where they should be carried, he
is failing to perform his proper part as bringer of the Word.

p6. There is one major difference in the role of Heaven’s messengers,
which sets them off from those the world appoints. 2
The messages that they deliver are intended first for them. 3
And it is only as they can accept them for themselves that they become able
to bring them further, and to give them everywhere that they were meant
to be. 4 Like earthly messengers, they did not
write the messages they bear, but they become their first receivers in the
truest sense, receiving to prepare themselves to give.

p7. An earthly messenger fulfills his role by giving all his messages
away. 2 The messengers of God perform their
part by their acceptance of His messages as for themselves, and show they
understand the messages by giving them away. 3
They choose no roles that are not given them by His authority. 4
And so they gain by every message that they give away.

p8. Would you receive the messages of God? 2
For thus do you become His messenger. 3 You
are appointed now. 4 And yet you wait to give
the messages you have received. 5 And so you
do not know that they are yours, and do not recognize them. 6
No one can receive and understand he has received until he gives. 7
For in the giving is his own acceptance of what he received.

p9. You who are now the messenger of God, receive His messages.
2 For that is part of your appointed role. 3
God has not failed to offer what you need, nor has it been left unaccepted.
4 Yet another part of your appointed task is
yet to be accomplished. 5 He Who has received
for you the messages of God would have them be received by you as well.
6 For thus do you identify with Him and claim
your own.

p10. It is this joining that we undertake to recognize today.
2 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.
3 He alone can speak to us and for us, joining
in one Voice the getting and the giving of God’s Word; the giving and receiving
of His Will.

p11. We practice giving Him what He would have, that we may recognize
His gifts to us. 2 He needs our voice that He
may speak through us. 3 He needs our hands to
hold His messages, and carry them to those whom He appoints. 4
He needs our feet to bring us where He wills, that those who wait in misery
may be at last delivered. 5 And He needs our
will united with His Own, that we may be the true receivers of the gifts
He gives.

p12. Let us but learn this lesson for today: We will not recognize
what we receive until we give it. 2 You have
heard this said a hundred ways, a hundred times, and yet belief is lacking
still. 3 But this is sure; until belief is given
it, you will receive a thousand miracles and then receive a thousand more,
but will not know that God Himself has left no gift beyond what you already
have; nor has denied the tiniest of blessings to His Son. 4
What can this mean to you, until you have identified with Him and with His
Own?

p13. Our lesson for today is stated thus:

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

p14. The world recedes as we light up our minds, and realize these
holy words are true. 2 They are the message
sent to us today from our Creator. 3 Now we
demonstrate how they have changed our minds about ourselves, and what our
function is. 4 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.

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Lesson 154

I am among the ministers of God.

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