Relief

Relief

it’s a relief to know that I can’t judge, not that I don’t make judgments, but that not a single one made is worthy of consideration. Most of my life has been a continuous judgment against myself, very often appearing in the guise of my thoughts about another — yet every single one has more truly been a value call on my own self-worth.

You have often been urged to refrain from judging, not because it is a right to be withheld from you. ³You cannot judge. ⁴You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. ⁵It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt. (ACIM, W-151.4:2–5)

the above words are from Lesson 151 of A Course in Miracles. Judgment is the major theme here, and this lesson is designed to set us free, completely so, from the belief that we’re even capable of truly judging ourselves or others. As condemnation dies down, we begin to hear the quietness of the Voice for God, gentle, patient, and only judging between what is real or false.

Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way to recognize yourself, and let the Voice for God alone be Judge of what is worthy of your own belief. ²He will not tell you that your brother should be judged by what your eyes behold in him, nor what his…