Let us today be neither arrogant nor falsely humble. We cannot judge, nor need to. These are but attempts to hold decision off, and to delay commitment to our function. What we think is weakness can be strength; what we believe to be our strength is often arrogance.
A messenger is not the one who writes the message he delivers. It is enough that he accept it, give it to the ones for whom it is intended, and fulfill his role in its delivery. If he determines what the messages should be, or what their purpose is, or where they should be carried, he is failing to perform his proper part as bringer of the Word.
No one can receive and understand he has received until he gives. For in the giving is his own acceptance of what he received.
I am among the ministers of God, and I am grateful that I have the means by which to recognize that I am free.
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It is not our part to judge our worth, no can we know what role is best for use; what we can do within a large plan we cannot see in its entirety... (L154)
This lesson parallels with the text that says we have no basis for personal evaluation: "you cannot distinguish between advance and retreat. Some of your greatest advances you have judged as failures, and some of you deepest retreats you have evaluated as success (T.18.V.)
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