T. 31. VIII. 3 – 5. Jesus: “Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you.
In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity, Christ calls to you from within and gently says, ‘My brother, choose again.’
He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. He would remove all misery from you, one whom God created altar unto joy. He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you.
Christ’s holiness is yours because He is the only real Power that is within you. His strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only Son. The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be.
Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it for what it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. For what appears to hide the face of Christ is powerless before His majesty, and disappears before Christ’s holy sight.
The saviors of the world, who see like Him, are merely those who choose His strength instead of their own weakness, seen apart from Him. They will redeem the world, for they are joined in all the power of the Will of God. And what they will is only what He wills.
Learn, then, the happy habit of response to all temptation to perceive yourself as weak and miserable with these words, ‘I am as God created me. His Son can suffer nothing. And I am His Son.’
Thus is Christ’s strength invited to prevail, replacing all your weakness with the strength that comes from God and that can never fail. And thus are miracles as natural as fear and agony appeared to be before the choice for holiness was made. For in that choice are false distinctions gone, illusory alternatives laid by, and nothing left to interfere with truth.”