Here’s a revelation that shifted how I see myself and how I think of my spiritual journey. For the longest time, I believed that spiritual gifts, divine love, inner peace – all of these beautiful qualities – were things I had to earn, find, or somehow become worthy enough to receive.
I thought there were ancient scrolls with secret mantras I needed to discover. I imagined there was some guru out there who could break through my limitations with their special power.
I was convinced that my spiritual growth was blocked by something fundamentally wrong with me – that I was bad, maybe even evil, and this created an immovable ceiling on my expansion.
A Course in Miracles taught me something that blew my mind: “All things are given you. God’s trust in you is limitless.” The gifts of God aren’t something we need to acquire. They’re pre-installed. They’re our very essence, our nature, our birthright.
Think about your smartphone for a moment. It comes with incredible capabilities already built in – you don’t have to earn the right to make calls or send messages. You just have to learn how to activate the functions that are already there. The same is true with our divine nature. Joy, peace, love, wisdom, creativity, abundance – these aren’t external rewards we might receive someday. They’re pre-installed features of who we are.
So why don’t we experience them consistently? The Course explains it this way: “Unless your will is one with God’s, God’s gifts are not received.” It’s not that God is withholding anything from us. It’s that we’re not aligned to receive what’s already been given.
I used to get intuitive guidance all the time, but I’d pretend I didn’t receive it because I felt overwhelmed and didn’t know what to do with the insights. Instead of asking Spirit for help with the next steps, I’d be like a child singing “la la la” with my fingers in my ears.
I was like someone standing under a waterfall of love and abundance while holding an umbrella, wondering why I felt so dry and disconnected.
The shift came when I realized I wasn’t a victim of my circumstances – I was the dreamer of my dream.
Everything I was experiencing was coming from my own choices, my own beliefs, my own willingness or unwillingness to align with love. This was initially terrifying because it meant taking complete responsibility, but it became liberating when I realized it also meant I had complete power to choose differently.
Here’s what I’ve discovered: it takes tremendous energy to be miserable. You have to work really hard to block all the love and light that’s constantly flowing toward you. When we’re complaining, judging, attacking, or playing victim, we’re actively defending against our pre-installed gifts.
But the moment we stop defending, the moment we say “Holy Spirit, decide for me” instead of trying to figure everything out ourselves, those gifts begin to activate. Not because we’ve suddenly become worthy, but because we’ve stopped blocking what was always there.
ACIM tells us we’re entrusted with the world’s release from pain. Think about that – you’re entrusted with something that magnificent. Not after you get your act together, not when you become perfect, but right now, exactly as you are. You’re entrusted to extend love, to demonstrate peace, to show others that transformation is possible.
Our gifts aren’t hidden in some far-off spiritual realm. They’re not locked away pending our good behavior. They’re right here, right now, pre-installed and ready to be activated through our willingness to align with love.
So today, instead of seeking something we don’t have, why not explore what we’ve been given? Instead of trying to earn our way into God’s good graces, why not remember that we’re already the Beloved of the Beloved.
The gifts of God are ours today and every day. They always have been. It’s time for us to stop pretending otherwise and start living like the magnificent beings we truly are.
What gift will you allow yourself to experience today?
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