Welcome to Active Meditation Course in Miracles Lesson 154.
I am among the Ministers of God.
Let us today be neither arrogant nor falsely humble.
We have gone beyond such foolishness.
We cannot judge ourselves,
Nor need we do so.
Judgments are but attempts to hold decision off.
Judgments delay commitment to our function.
It is not our part to judge our worth,
Nor can we know what role is best for us,
Or what we can do.
Within a larger plan,
We cannot see in its entirety,
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 your appointed role may be,
It was selected by the voice for God,
Whose function is to speak for you as well.
Seeing your strengths exactly as they are,
And being equally aware of where your strengths can be best applied,
And when,
God chooses and accepts your part for you.
God does not work without your own consent,
But he is not deceived in what you are.
God listens only to his voice in you.
It is through God's ability to hear one voice,
Which is his own,
That you become aware at last there is one voice in you.
And that one voice appoints your function and relays it to you,
Giving you the strength to understand it,
Giving you the strength to do what it entails,
Giving you the strength to succeed in everything you do that is related to your function.
God has joined his child in this,
And thus your higher self becomes God's messenger of unity with him.
It is this joining through the voice for God,
Your higher self,
The father and child,
That sets apart salvation.
It is this voice which speaks of laws that the world does not obey.
It is this voice which promises salvation from all sin.
It is this voice that abolishes guilt in the mind that God created sinless.
Now,
This mind becomes aware again of who created it.
Now,
This mind becomes aware of its lasting union with God.
So,
Is your higher self the child of God?
The one reality in which its will and that of God are joined?
Our lesson for today is stated thus.
Repeat after me.
I am among the ministers of God.
I am grateful that I have the means by which to recognize that I am free.
The messenger is not the one who writes the message delivered,
Nor does the messenger question the right of the one who does,
Nor does the messenger ask why God has chosen those who will receive the message that is brought.
It is enough that the messenger accept the message.
It is enough that the messenger give it to the ones for whom it was intended.
It is enough that the messengers fulfill their designated role in its delivery.
If the messenger determines what the messages should be,
If the messenger determines what their purpose is or where they should be carried,
Then the messenger is failing to perform the proper role as bringer of the word.
There is one major difference in the role of heaven's messengers which sets them off from those the world appoints.
The messages that they deliver are intended first for them.
It is only as they can accept the messages for themselves that they become able to bring them further,
That they become able to give the messages everywhere that they were meant to be.
Like earthly messengers,
They did not write the messages they bear,
But they become their first receivers in the truest sense,
Receiving messages to prepare themselves to give.
An earthly messenger fulfills their role by giving all their messages away.
The messengers of God perform their part by their acceptance of God's messages for themselves and demonstrate that they understand the messages by giving them away.
The messengers of God choose no roles that are not given them by God's authority,
And so they gain by every message that they give away.
Would you receive the messages of God?
For thus,
Do you become do you become God's messenger.
You are appointed now,
And yet you wait to give the messages you have received.
So,
You do not know that they are yours,
And so you do not recognize them.
No one can receive,
No one can understand they have received until they give.
For in the giving is their own acceptance of what they receive.
You,
Who are now the messenger 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.
Another part of your appointed task is yet to be accomplished.
Your higher self,
Who has received for you the messages of God,
Would have them be received by you as well.
For thus,
Do you identify with God and claim your own.
It is this joining that we undertake to recognize today.
We will not seek to keep our minds apart from the one who speaks for us,
For it is but our voice we hear.
Our higher self alone can speak to us and for us,
Joining in one voice the getting and the giving of God's Word,
Joining the giving and receiving of God's will.
We practice giving what God would have,
What God would have,
That we may recognize the gifts God gives to us.
Let's repeat again our lesson for today.
Say in your mind,
I am among the ministers of God.
I am grateful that I have the means by which to recognize that I am free.
God needs our voice to speak through us.
God needs our hands to hold his messages and carry them to those appointed.
God needs our feet to bring us where he will,
That those who wait in misery can be at last delivered.
God needs our will,
United with his own,
That we may be the true receivers of the gifts he gives.
Let us also learn this lesson today.
We will not recognize what we receive until we give it.
You have heard this said a hundred ways a hundred times,
And yet belief is still lacking.
But this is sure.
Until belief is given this lesson,
You will receive a thousand miracles and then receive a thousand more.
But you will not know that God himself has left no gift beyond what you already have,
Nor has God denied the tiniest of blessings to his child.
What can this mean to you until you have identified with God and with God's own child,
Your higher self?
Our lesson for today is stated thus.
Repeat after me.
I will not recognize what I receive until I give it.
I am among the ministers of God.
I am grateful that I have the means by which to recognize that I am free.
Ponder on this.
I will not recognize what I receive until I give it.
Until I give it.
I am among the ministers of God.
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 about 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,
Will leap into our hands,
And we will recognize what we have received.
I am among the ministers of God.
I will not recognize what I receive until I give it.
I am free.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
