T. 24. VI. 9 & 10. Jesus: “See your brother as the Christ he truly is, that your own deliverance may not be longer delayed. A senseless wandering, without a purpose and without accomplishment of any kind, is all the decision to see your brother as a body can offer you.
The futility of not fulfilling your function will haunt you while your brother lies asleep, until at last what has been assigned to you is done, and he is risen from the past. He who condemned himself and you as well, is now given you to save from condemnation, along with you. And then both shall see God’s glory in seeing His Son, whom you mistook as flesh, and bound to laws that have no power over him at all.
Would you not gladly realize these laws are not for you? Then see your brother not as prisoner to them! It cannot be what governs part of God holds not for all the rest. You place yourself under the laws you see as ruling him. Think, then, how great the Love of God for you must be, that He has given you a part of Him to save from pain, and thereby give you happiness.
Never doubt but that your specialness will disappear before the Will of God, Who loves each part of Him with equal love and care. The Christ in you can see your brother truly. Would you decide against the holiness He sees?
Specialness is the function that you gave yourself. It stands for you alone, as self-created, self-maintained, in need of nothing, and not joined with anything beyond the body. In its eyes you are a separate universe, with all the power to hold itself complete within itself, with every entry shut against intrusion, and every window barred against the light. Always attacked and always furious, with anger always fully justified, you have pursued this goal with vigilance you never thought to yield, and effort that you never thought to cease. And all this grim determination was but for this: You wanted specialness to be the truth!
Now are you merely asked that you pursue another goal for your relationship, one that requires far less vigilance; with little effort and with little time, and with the power of God maintaining it, and promising success. Yet of the two, it is this one you seem to find more difficult. The ‘sacrifice’ of your true self you surely understand, and you do not deem this cost too heavy. But a tiny willingness, a nod to God, a greeting to the Christ in you, you find a burden wearisome and tedious, too heavy to be borne.
Yet to the dedication to the truth as God established it, no sacrifice is asked, no strain called forth, and all the power of Heaven and the might of truth itself is given to provide the means, and guarantee the goal’s accomplishment.”