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.
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.
God does not work without your own consent.
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.
That one voice appoints your function and relays it to you,
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,
That sets apart salvation from the world.
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.
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 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,
So they gain by every message that they give away.
Would you receive the messages of God?
For thus,
Do you become God's messenger?
No one can receive.
No one can understand they have received until they give.
In the giving is their own acceptance of what they receive.
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?
Name your own.
It is this joining that we undertake to recognize today.
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 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.
God needs our hands.
God needs our feet.
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.
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.
I am among the ministers of God.
I am free.
The world recedes as we light up 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.
