ACIM ADVENT: December 4
T-11.VIII.4. No one can withhold truth except from himself. 2 Yet God will not refuse you the Answer He gave. 3 Ask, then, for what is yours, but which you did not make, and do not defend yourself against truth. 4 You made the problem God has answered. 5 Ask yourself, therefore, but one simple question:
6 Do I want the problem or do I want the answer?
7 Decide for the answer and you will have it, for you will see it as it is, and it is yours already.
T-11.VIII.5. You may complain that this course is not sufficiently specific for you to understand and use. 2 Yet perhaps you have not done what it specifically advocates. 3 This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical application. 4 Nothing could be more specific than to be told that if you ask you will receive. 5 The Holy Spirit will answer every specific problem as long as you believe that problems are specific. 6 His answer is both many and one, as long as you believe that the one is many. 7 You may be afraid of His specificity, for fear of what you think it will demand of you. 8 Yet only by asking will you learn that nothing of God demands anything of you. 9 God gives; He does not take. 10 When you refuse to ask, it is because you believe that asking is taking rather than sharing.
T-11.VIII.4. No one can withhold truth except from himself. 2 Yet God will not refuse you the Answer He gave. 3 Ask, then, for what is yours, but which you did not make, and do not defend yourself against truth. 4 You made the problem God has answered. 5 Ask yourself, therefore, but one simple question:
6 Do I want the problem or do I want the answer?
7 Decide for the answer and you will have it, for you will see it as it is, and it is yours already.
T-11.VIII.5. You may complain that this course is not sufficiently specific for you to understand and use. 2 Yet perhaps you have not done what it specifically advocates. 3 This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical application. 4 Nothing could be more specific than to be told that if you ask you will receive. 5 The Holy Spirit will answer every specific problem as long as you believe that problems are specific. 6 His answer is both many and one, as long as you believe that the one is many. 7 You may be afraid of His specificity, for fear of what you think it will demand of you. 8 Yet only by asking will you learn that nothing of God demands anything of you. 9 God gives; He does not take. 10 When you refuse to ask, it is because you believe that asking is taking rather than sharing.
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