ARE CHANGES REQUIRED IN THE LIFE SITUATION OF GOD'S TEACHERS?

Changes are required in the minds of God's teachers.

This may or may not involve changes in the external situation.

Remember that no one is where he is by accident, and chance plays no part in God's plan.

It is most unlikely that changes in his attitudes would not be the first step in the newly-made teacher of God's training. There is, however, no set pattern since training is always highly individualized.

There are those who are called upon to change their life situation almost immediately, but these are generally special cases.

By far the majority are given a slowly-evolving training program, in which as many previous mistakes as possible are corrected.

Relationships in particular must be properly perceived, and all dark cornerstones of unforgiveness removed. Otherwise, the old thought-system still has a basis for return.

As the teacher of God advances in his training, he learns one lesson with increasing thoroughness.

He does not make his own decisions; he asks his Teacher for His answer, and it is this he follows as his guide for action. This becomes easier and easier as the teach of God learns to give up his own judgement.

The giving up of judgment, the obvious pre-requisite for hearing God's Voice, is usually a fairly slow process not because it is difficult, but because it is apt to be perceived as personally insulting.

The world's training is directed toward achieving a goal in direct opposition to that of our curriculum.

• The world trains for reliance on one's judgment as the criterion for maturity and strength.
• Our curriculum trains for the relinquishment of judgment as the necessary condition of salvation.

HOW IS JUDGMENT RELINQUISHED?

Judgement, like other devices by which the world of illusions is maintained, is totally misunderstood by the world. It is actually confused with wisdom, and substitutes for truth.

As the world uses the term, an individual is capable of "good" and "bad" judgment, and his education aims at strengthening the former and minimizing the latter.

There is, however, considerable confusion about what these categories mean.

• What is "good judgement" to one is "bad judgement" to another.
• Further, even the same person classifies the same action as showing "good" judgment at one time and "bad" judgment at another time.
• Nor can any consistent criteria for determining what these categories are be really taught. At any time the student may disagree with what his would-be teacher says about it, and the teacher himself is inconsistent in what he believes.

"Good judgment" in these terms, does not mean anything. No more does "bad."

It is necessary for the teacher of God to realize not that he should not judge, but that he cannot.

In giving up judgment he merely gives up what he did not have. He gives up an illusion; or better, he has an illusion of giving up.

He has actually merely becoming more honest.

Recognizing that judgment was always impossible for him, he no longer attempts it. This is no sacrifice. On the contrary, he puts himself in a position where judgment through him rather than by him can occur.

And this judgment is neither "good" nor "bad." It is the only judgment there is, and it is only one:

"God's Son is guiltless, and sin does not exist."

 

Read an excerpt on INNER GUIDANCE from The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

It will never happen that you will have to make decisions for yourself. You are not bereft of help, and Help that KNOWS
the answer. ACIM Chap 13 The Decision for Guiltlessness