ACIM Workbook Lesson 4 – for Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Affirmation: “These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room.”
Selected Passage:
“You will find, if you train yourself to look at your thoughts, that they represent such a mixture that, in a sense, none of them can be called ‘good’ so ‘bad.’ This is why they do not mean anything. (WB6)”
Reflections:
1 – Finding Our Way Out of Confusion
Our minds are confused. Even we know this. And thoughts that do not mean anything are not meant to be believed. Judging our thoughts would only confuse us as of yet. Elsewhere, later on in both the Text and the Manual, we learn that it is up to the Holy Spirit to make these judgments, because we are totally incapable of seeing the whole picture.
2 -Don’t Scare So Easily
We can scare ourselves with our thoughts; this happens all the time. But do we realize that we can actually effect some change in those thoughts? We can turn to the Holy Spirit for guidance, and He will still our minds. Nothing else is truly worthy of the time spent in this world. Salvation is our only function (a Workbook tenet).
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
May I let my own little judgments go. They are not worthy of me. I cannot know the whole situation. But there is One who does know: the Holy Spirit. May I leave all judgment to Him, knowing that His judgments only are true, based on everything, including that which is beyond my perception and even my knowledge.
Be with me today as I seek to eliminate my own judgments from my life. In essence, I know that my own judgments are meaningless, but the ego would have me think that they are sound. May I realize today that only the judgments of the Holy Spirit are sound.
Amen.
