“My trust in you is greater than yours in me at the moment, but it will not always be that way. Your mission is very simple. You are asked to live so as to demonstrate that you are not an ego, and I do not choose God’s channels wrongly. (T68)”
Affirmation: “I do not choose God’s channels wrongly.”
Reflections:
Jesus seeks to bring him to us in these well-chosen words. He assures us that he is certain that we will live without the ego, that we will first live as though we are without an ego.
We have a substantial mission in this world. We are one of “God’s channels.” We are meant not to find our way Home ourselves, but also to facilitate the coming Home of our brothers and sisters. Jesus’s faith in us in intense, because he knows that the only way that this world can work is if we do our part to reform the hearts and minds of our brothers and sisters–not to speak of our own. When we do this, all will be well.
“I do not choose God’s channels wrongly.” This is not meant to be a call to specialness. All are chosen as God’s channels; all are meant to return Home. And Jesus says elsewhere that all will return, though it may happen over millions of years. This is not cause for despondency, because we have Jesus as our elder brother every step of the way. Our own way will lighten immeasurably as we learn to put into practice the dictates of the Course.
Prayer:
Dear Father,
Help me to realize that I am a channel for God. However many mistakes I make, still is this true. Thank you.
May I take up my mission in this world. To do so, I need to live as though I am without ego. Help me to relinquish the ego, and to take my place in the salvation of this world.
Amen.
