Littleness versus Magnitude

Chapter 15 – 3. Littleness versus Magnitude

Be not content with littleness. But be sure you understand what littleness is,
and why you could never be content with it. Littleness is the offering you
give yourself. You offer this in place of magnitude, and you accept it.
 
Everything in this world is little because it is a world made out of littleness,
in the strange belief that littleness can content you. When you strive for
anything in this world in the belief that it will bring you peace, you are
belittling yourself and blinding yourself to glory. Littleness and glory are
the choices open to your striving and your vigilance. You will always
choose one at the expense of the other.
 
Yet what you do not realize, each time you choose, is that your choice is
your evaluation of yourself. Choose littleness and you will not have peace,
for you will have judged yourself unworthy of it. And whatever you offer as
a substitute is much too poor a gift to satisfy you. It is essential that you
accept the fact, and accept it gladly, that there is no form of littleness that
can ever content you. You are free to try as many as you wish, but all you
will be doing is to delay your homecoming. For you will be content only in
magnitude, which is your home.
 
There is a deep responsibility you owe yourself, and one you must learn to
remember all the time. The lesson may seem hard at first, but you will learn
to love it when you realize that it is true and is but a tribute to your power.
 
You who have sought and found littleness, remember this: Every decision
you make stems from what you think you are, and represents the value that
you put upon yourself. Believe the little can content you, and by limiting
yourself you will not be satisfied. For your function is not little, and it is
only by finding your function and fulfilling it that you can escape from
littleness.
 
There is no doubt about what your function is, for the Holy Spirit knows
what it is. There is no doubt about its magnitude, for it reaches you through
 
Him from Magnitude. You do not have to strive for it, because you have it.
 
All striving must be directed against littleness, for it does require vigilance
to protect your magnitude in this world. To hold your magnitude in perfect
awareness in a world of littleness is a task the little cannot undertake. Yet it
is asked of you, in tribute to your magnitude and not your littleness. Nor is
it asked of you alone. The power of God will support every effort you make
on behalf of His dear Son. Search for the little, and you deny yourself His
power. God is not willing that His Son be content with less than everything.
For He is not content without His Son, and His Son cannot be content with
less than his Father has given him.
 
I asked you earlier, “Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? “Let
this question be asked you by the Holy Spirit every time you make a
decision. For every decision you make does answer this, and invites sorrow
or joy accordingly. When God gave Himself to you in your creation, He
established you as host to Him forever. He has not left you, and you have
not left Him. All your attempts to deny His magnitude, and make His Son
hostage to the ego, cannot make little whom God has joined with Him.
 
Every decision you make is for Heaven or for hell, and brings you the
awareness of what you decided for.
 
The Holy Spirit can hold your magnitude, clean of all littleness, clearly and
in perfect safety in your mind, untouched by every little gift the world of
littleness would offer you. But for this, you cannot side against Him in what
He wills for you. Decide for God through Him. For littleness, and the belief
that you can be content with littleness, are decisions you make about
yourself. The power and the glory that lie in you from God are for all who,
like you, perceive themselves as little, and believe that littleness can be
blown up into a sense of magnitude that can content them. Neither give
littleness, nor accept it. All honor is due the host of God. Your littleness
deceives you, but your magnitude is of Him Who dwells in you, and in
 
Whom you dwell. Touch no one, then, with littleness in the Name of Christ,
eternal Host unto His Father.
 
In this season (Christmas) which celebrates the birth of holiness into this
world, join with me who decided for holiness for you. It is our task together
to restore the awareness of magnitude to the host whom God appointed for
Himself. It is beyond all your littleness to give the gift of God, but not
beyond you. For God would give Himself through you. He reaches from
you to everyone and beyond everyone to His Son’s creations, but without
leaving you. Far beyond your little world but still in you, He extends
forever. Yet He brings all His extensions to you, as host to Him.
 
Is it a sacrifice to leave littleness behind, and wander not in vain? It is not
sacrifice to wake to glory. But it is sacrifice to accept anything less than
glory. Learn that you must be worthy of the Prince of Peace, born in you in
honor of Him Whose host you are. You know not what love means because
you have sought to purchase it with little gifts, thus valuing it too little to
understand its magnitude. Love is not little and love dwells in you, for you
are host to Him. Before the greatness that lives in you, your poor
appreciation of yourself and all the little offerings you give slip into
nothingness.
 
Holy child of God, when will you learn that only holiness can content you
and give you peace? Remember that you learn not for yourself alone, no
more than I did. It is because I learned for you that you can learn of me. I
would but teach you what is yours, so that together we can replace the
shabby littleness that binds the host of God to guilt and weakness with the
glad awareness of the glory that is in him. My birth in you is your
awakening to grandeur. Welcome me not into a manger, but into the altar to
holiness, where holiness abides in perfect peace. My Kingdom is not of this
world because it is in you. And you are of your Father. Let us join in
honoring you, who must remain forever beyond littleness.
 
Decide with me, who has decided to abide with you. I will as my Father
wills, knowing His Will is constant and at peace forever with itself. You
will be content with nothing but His Will. Accept no less, remembering that
everything I learned is yours. What my Father loves I love as He does, and I
can no more accept it as what it is not, than He can. And no more can you.
 
When you have learned to accept what you are, you will make no more gifts
to offer to yourself, for you will know you are complete, in need of nothing,
and unable to accept anything for yourself. But you will gladly give, having
received. The host of God needs not seek to find anything.
 
If you are wholly willing to leave salvation to the plan of God and unwilling
to attempt to grasp for peace yourself, salvation will be given you. Yet think
not you can substitute your plan for His. Rather, join with me in His, that
we may release all those who would be bound, proclaiming together that the
Son of God is host to Him. Thus will we let no one forget what you would
remember. And thus will you remember it.
 
Call forth in everyone only the remembrance of God, and of the Heaven that
is in him. For where you would have your brother be, there will you think
you are. Hear not his appeal to hell and littleness, but only his call for
Heaven and greatness. Forget not that his call is yours, and answer him with
me. God’s power is forever on the side of His host, for it protects only the
peace in which He dwells. Lay not littleness before His holy altar, which
rises above the stars and reaches even to Heaven, because of what is given
it.