Monday, July 4, 2016

Humble or Arrogant?

photo credit: Aaron Springston
ACIM Workbook Lesson #186
“Salvation of the world depends on me.”

Would you feel uneasy, perhaps arrogant, if you were to say that the salvation of the world depended on you? I know I would have in the past, but that was before I realized that the opposite is true. The realization that we are united with All that Is is quite a humbling experience. It's easy to get this concept backwards, believing that if we recognize our oneness with God, we are displaying braggadocio. I have found boastful behavior comes about from thinking that my material, personal beliefs are more valid than the experience I share with divine Mind. The surrender which is necessary to allow myself to want nothing other than to know God is a yielding of my self-important intellectual sureness. The gratitude I feel from the realization of our unity is priceless!


Mary Baker Eddy quote: “The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God’s will must be universally done.” Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures Page 201:3-5

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