T-15.III.4. There is no doubt about what your function is, for the Holy Spirit knows what it is. 2 There is no doubt about its magnitude, for it reaches you through Him from Magnitude. 3 You do not have to strive for it, because you have it. 4 All your striving must be directed against littleness, for it does require vigilance to protect your magnitude in this world. 5 To hold your magnitude in perfect awareness in a world of littleness is a task the little cannot undertake. 6 Yet it is asked of you, in tribute to your magnitude and not your littleness. 7 Nor is it asked of you alone. 8 The power of God will support every effort you make on behalf of His dear Son. 9 Search for the little, and you deny yourself His power. 10 God is not willing that His Son be content with less than everything. 11 For He is not content without His Son, and His Son cannot be content with less than his Father has given him.
T-15.III.5. I asked you earlier, "Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God?" 2 Let this question be asked you by the Holy Spirit every time you make a decision. 3 For every decision you make does answer this, and invites sorrow or joy accordingly. 4 When God gave Himself to you in your creation, He established you as host to Him forever. 5 He has not left you, and you have not left Him. 6 All your attempts to deny His magnitude, and make His Son hostage to the ego, cannot make little whom God has joined with Him. 7 Every decision you make is for Heaven or for hell, and brings you the awareness of what you decided for.
T-15.III.6. The Holy Spirit can hold your magnitude, clean of all littleness, clearly and in perfect safety in your mind, untouched by every little gift the world of littleness would offer you. 2 But for this, you cannot side against Him in what He wills for you. 3 Decide for God through Him. 4 For littleness, and the belief that you can be content with littleness, are decisions you make about yourself. 5 The power and the glory that lie in you from God are for all who, like you, perceive themselves as little, and believe that littleness can be blown up into a sense of magnitude that can content them. 6 Neither give littleness, nor accept it. 7 All honor is due the host of God. 8 Your littleness deceives you, but your magnitude is of Him Who dwells in you, and in Whom you dwell. 9 Touch no one, then, with littleness in the Name of Christ, eternal Host unto His Father.
T-15.III.8. Is it a sacrifice to leave littleness behind, and wander not in vain? 2 It is not sacrifice to wake to glory. 3 But it is sacrifice to accept anything less than glory. 4 Learn that you must be worthy of the Prince of Peace, born in you in honor of Him Whose host you are. 5 You know not what love means because you have sought to purchase it with little gifts, thus valuing it too little to understand its magnitude. 6 Love is not little and love dwells in you, for you are host to Him. 7 Before the greatness that lives in you, your poor appreciation of yourself and all the little offerings you give slip into nothingness.
T-15.III.10. Decide with me, who has decided to abide with you. 2 I will as my Father wills, knowing His Will is constant and at peace forever with itself. 3 You will be content with nothing but His Will. 4 Accept no less, remembering that everything I learned is yours. 5 What my Father loves I love as He does, and I can no more accept it as what it is not, than He can. 6 And no more can you. 7 When you have learned to accept what you are, you will make no more gifts to offer to yourself, for you will know you are complete, in need of nothing, and unable to accept anything for yourself. 8 But you will gladly give, having received. 9 The host of God needs not seek to find anything.
T-15.III.12. Call forth in everyone only the remembrance of God, and of the Heaven that is in him. 2 For where you would have your brother be, there will you think you are. 3 Hear not his appeal to hell and littleness, but only his call for Heaven and greatness. 4 Forget not that his call is yours, and answer him with me. 5 God's power is forever on the side of His host, for it protects only the peace in which He dwells. 6 Lay not littleness before His holy altar, which rises above the stars and reaches even to Heaven, because of what is given it.
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