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.
