What
Are The Characteristics of God's Teachers?
Gentleness
Harm
is impossible for God's teachers. They can neither harm nor be
harmed.
Harm
is the outcome or judgment.
It
is the dishonest act that follows the dishonest thought.
It
is a verdict of guilt upon a brother and therefore on one's
self.
It is the end of peace and the denial of learning.
It
demonstrates the absence of God's curriculum and its replacement
by insanity.
No
teacher of God but must learn,
and
fairly early in his training,
that
harmfulness completely obliterates his function from his awareness.
It will make him
- confused,
- fearful,
- angry
and
- suspicious.
It
will make the Holy Spirit's lessons impossible to learn. Nor can
God's Teacher (Holy Spirit) be heard at all except by those who
realize that harm can actually achieve nothing. No gain can come
of it.
Therefore
God's teachers are wholly gentle.
They
need the strength of gentleness, for it is in this that the function
of salvation becomes easy.
What
choice but this has meaning to the sane?
Who
chooses hell when he perceives a way to Heaven?
And
who would choose the weakness that must come from harm in place
of the unfailing, all-encompassing and limitless strength of
gentleness?
The
might of God's teachers lies in their gentleness, for they have
understood their evil thoughts came neither from God's Son nor
his Creator.
Thus
did they join their thoughts with Him Who is their Source.
And
so their will, which always was His Own, is free to be Itself.
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