This is William LePar’s
spiritual source, The Council’s third step of the Five Steps to Spirituality.
The Council: If you take these
five steps and apply them to your life, much spiritual growth can be
accomplished. In fact, one can
accomplish a degree of spirituality that most have only dreamed of.
The third step is: Never
defend yourself. If you insist on
defending yourself, no one will come to your aid. Your whole defense will depend on your
abilities and on your strength. This
Divine Source will not help you to defend yourself if you choose that. If you choose to defend yourself, He will let
you do it. If you turn your defense over
to this Divine Source, He will defend you.
As this Divine Source once said to Moses in Exodus 23, "I will be
an enemy unto thine enemies and an adversary to thine adversaries." If you leave your defense to the Divine
Source, your enemies shall be His enemies, your adversaries shall be His adversaries,
and you will never need to defend yourself for He will be your shield and your
armor. Many of us will defend talents
that we may have; we may defend the service that we give, we may defend the
reputation that we have. Your reputation
is what people think of you. It is hard
to overcome the temptation of defending your own reputation, but we must
refrain from such things. Whenever
something unpleasant is said about one or another, and they attempt to seek out
the truth or the source of the story, it becomes a hopeless task. One thing leads to another, and once the
point is defended or challenged, it only opens the door for more untruthful
things to be said, and so then one must run again to seek down the source. So it becomes an unending chase. You cannot truly defend yourself from your
adversaries. You cannot defend yourself completely and
wholly. Leave this defense to your
Divine Maker. When those seek to
challenge your reputation or your talents or some service you may have to
perform for others. Let them challenge
it. Do not waste your time in trying to
prove that their challenges are wrong.
Let them say what they will, and go about your good duty your good
service, your good talents. The Divine
Source will defend you far better than you could ever defend yourself.
