LESSON ONE HUNDRED-FIFTY-FOUR

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

L e s s o n  154

I am among the ministers of God.

What does it mean to minister but to attend to?  Therefore, a minister of God is someone who attends to: i.e. One who is here for giving.  A servant.

And yet, to be a servant One must know that S/He is the Son of God, and therefore, already does have everything to give.

¹ Let us today be neither arrogant nor falsely humble. We have gone beyond such foolishness. We cannot judge ourselves, nor need we do so. 

This is why We’re here.  It is not to serve the ego, but at God’s behest to serve Our Brothers. And those who are well-served will but arise and minister to Others.

So Our happy throng extends throughout the dream and heals the world.

We have learned to watch the thoughts that come to Us and to not be fooled by the ego’s negativity.

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.  Yet We can be sure 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.

Yet as We listen humbly, desiring to really Love and bless Our Brothers, We won’t go wrong.  We will be Guided.

² Whatever your appointed role may be, it was selected by the Voice for God, Whose function is to speak for you as well.

I need not say that You will be blessed as well, for this You already know that Giving is Receiving.

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. He does not work without your own consent, but He is not deceived in what you are and listens only to His Voice in you.

In other words, do Your job, and worry not how it comes out.  It will be just fine!  The Holy Spirit does Know what’s needed.

³ 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.

And the Speaker is the Holy Spirit.  This is the Voice that We must heed. It comes straight from God, from Love.  With great gratitude We listen to It.

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. God has joined His Son in this, and thus His Son becomes His messenger of unity with Him.

And what is the Reality of the Son of God, whether it’s You or I, but what We speak of as the Holy Spirit.  Whoever turns wholeheartedly for help in this direction is met with a Love and an Intelligence that comes straight to Us from God Himself.

⁴ It is this joining through the Voice of God of Father and of Son that sets apart salvation from the world. It is this Voice which speaks of laws the world does not obey, – and frees You from the cruel laws enacted for control only by the ego, laws that bind You to sin, sickness, dying.  God’s Laws flow always from His Love for You – which promises salvation from all sin, with guilt abolished in the mind that God created sinless.  And this mind is Yours!

Now this mind becomes aware again of Who created it, and of His lasting union with itself. So is its Self the one reality in which its will and that of God are joined.

As You reach out for this Mind, which is Yours – and which We call the Holy Spirit – You realize It has always been right where You are.  You just have been ignoring It.

⁵ A messenger does not elect to make the message he delivers. 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. It is enough that he accept it, bring it to the ones for whom it is appointed, and fulfill his role in its delivery. If he insists on judging 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.

There is one quality essential to a messenger, and that is that S/He allow the Voice to speak to Him or Her.  And the allowing comes from the realization that, yes, there must be a better way to See and Be than what is seen currently within the dream.

Great gratitude for the Voice and for the message is also extremely helpful, yet not essential for delivery.  It is essential for Your happiness.

⁶ There is one major difference in the role of Heaven’s messengers which sets them off from those the world appoints. The messages which they deliver are intended first for them.  – And they are meant only to bless and keep on blessing. – 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. – For God’s messages are Universal.  You know that they are true, for they bless Every One who does will to hear them, including the messenger. – 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.

Each message is but a Gift of Freedom.

⁷ An earthly messenger fulfills his role by giving all the messages away. 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. They choose no roles that are not given them by His authority. And so they gain by every message which they give away.

Just ask the messenger the scope of the blessings They allow.

⁸ Would you receive the messages of God? For thus do you become His messengers. You are appointed now. And yet you wait to give the messages you have received, and so you do not know that they are yours and do not recognize them. No one can receive and understand he has received until he gives. For in the giving is his own acceptance of what he received.

You understand what I am saying here to You?  That it is by Your desire to share what You have received that You are then moved to giving.

⁹ You who are now the messengers of God receive His messages, for that is part of your appointed role. God has not failed to offer what you need, nor has it been left unaccepted. Yet another part of your appointed task is yet to be accomplished. He Who has received for you the messages of God would have them be received by you as well. For thus do you identify with Him and claim your own.

Let Me say this very clearly: If I’d wished to operate as if I were an ego, there would not have been Christ visible within the dream, no Resurrection and no messages, no way out of the endless misery of constant dreaming.

Are You willing to accept what I am giving You, and pass it on to Your Brothers and Your Sisters?

¹⁰ It is this 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. 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.

When You are joyously willing to hear Me gift to You the words of Holy Spirit, then do You gladly understand them!

¹¹ We practice giving Him what He would have that we may recognize His gifts to us. He needs our voice that He may speak through us.

Egos more readily hear those They believe to be egos.

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.

Have You something more important to do with Your day, today than bless Your Brother?

¹² Let us but learn this for today: we will not recognize what we receive until we give it. You have heard this said a hundred times, and yet belief is lacking still. 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. What can this mean to you until you have identified with him and with his own?

You do not remember Who You Are, and this has left You quite bereft and lonely.  Will You not Join and do His Will today.

Hear My happy, loving invitation!

¹³ Our lesson for today is stated thus:

¹⁴ I am among the ministers of God,
And I am grateful that I have the means
By which to recognize that I am free.

¹⁵ 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.

Change Your mind about what You be, and then see what You be changing accordingly!

[Thank you Dear Brother]

*Sun~Rose is the scribe of the recently published book, “YOU ARE LOVED AND SAFE: PREP NOTES FOR EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVE“, Jesus’ Guidance on the Miracle Principles

She is also author of, “RADIANT LIFE: RAW FOOD AND THE PRESENCE OF LOVE”

BOTH now available on amazon.com