By My Spirit

"Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." -- The Bible

"No law the world obeys can help you grasp Love's meaning. What the world believes was made to hide Love's meaning and to keep it dark and secret. There is not one principle the world upholds but violates the Truth of what Love Is, and what you are as well." -- A Course in Miracles

Whenever we are confronted with a situation, whether in relationships or at work or with finances... no matter what situation is in our face, we universally look for solutions. We feel there is something else we should do or say, some secret technique that will manipulate things to our liking, or some prayer mantra that will save us. We look to human principles and techniques for our salvation. What is so funny is that throughout human history people have been coming up with solutions that seemed to work for them for a while... just long enough to hook us into thinking, "This is it!" But then they don't work for the next one. On and off, on and off, working and not working, here and gone... the wheel of samsara, the nonsense of the dream spins and turns, disguising itself in the newest and most promising of ideas.

What all illusory solutions have in common is that they are an attempt to find power and authority in what is simply not true. "Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." A Course in Miracles says it this way: "All power is of God. What is not of Him has no power to do anything." No power to do anything in reality. Only a formula for sleeping and dreaming that we are powerful or powerless in the dream... and there is really no difference. When you awaken, it is all simply gone.

Awakening is why we're here. There is no other purpose. Whatever our path within the dream we call life, when this becomes its only purpose in our mind and heart it becomes a beautiful journey home. And whatever seems to confront us becomes some version of what ACIM calls the happy dream... because it always and only serves the Love that calls us to awaken, because It is Who We Are.

The decision to value Truth over illusions is not a minor one. It is the only decision you ever really make. And you make it not by struggling, not by analyzing, not by techniques or by more information... you make it by valuing what is True only, and being willing to question whatever arises from the standpoint of Truth. What remains when everything else is revealed as untrue and simply falls away? What remains is what is eternally Real and True. And it is revealed "not by might, not by power..." It is always and only by My Spirit.

"My mind is part of God's. I am very holy." -- A Course in Miracles