4-17. Love yourself, just as God always does, and you will be in alignment with the Will of the Universe. Since God Loves you, why would you choose to not love you?
To choose God is equally to choose to accept that the Truth of Love is as applicable to you as it is to all of the other Children of God, no matter their presentations, past errors, despotic desires for domination or revolting distrust for themselves or others. All of this is a Path of Surrender to Truth that will accept no equivocation or avoidance, for there cannot be partialities when that which is Eternal, Infinite and universally applicable is involved. What is it to say “I hate myself”? What is intended from such a perversion of the Love of God, now manifest not at all, instead becoming a nothingness that is disregarded and ignored so that the ego can reign supreme above all that is Real, an obfuscation of Truth and a level of obsequious banality and depressive application of the lies of the ego accepted in the place of the Peace and the Joy that must always accompany a surrender to God as the final evaluator of all that is genuine and Real? What is contained within this phrase is a denial of All That Is, which is of course a pitiful and remorseful attempt to abrogate your own responsibility unto the awaiting grasp of the ego, so that the ego can become your master and owner, dictating what it is that you are to know and enjoy, which for the ego is precious little indeed. To hate is to stand in opposition to the Will of God, but because no such challenge can actually be proposed, honored, accepted or effected, it is actually to stand against your own True Nature and then to call it valuable in any manner at all. That this world is not at all an accurate manifestation of the Love of God is true, but only in one very specific manner - in the realm of the behavior of so many of the now incarnate Children of God who desire wealth and power as some false means of shoring up the ever-crumpling levies of their own ego’s bulwarks against the Return of the Light and the acceptance that must be allowed to unfold when the heart is returned to its appropriate place as the singular leader of your mind, allowing for God’s Will to become clear and direct - a Will that ascribes Joy through Giving just as much as it is returned through Receiving in a great cycle of growth and expansion that has no conclusion. All that the ego desires is pain, dissolution, desperate longing and endless conflict, for all of these experiences fuel the continuation of a desire to hold up separation as the operating principle of this world of form, when no such perversion of reality is either possible or even tenable at all. To hate is to see and seek pain in all things, for what is Given to yourself - or to others - is equally Received by you as well, for Unity is the reason this world is sustained and it is the Unification of all of the Children of God through Love that will be the final undoing of all of the effects of the ego in any and all manners that are of any consequence at all. That is the end stage of this form of creation, a great giving back of all control to God and of all direction to Love, so that Peace can be allowed to return and the empty and hollow pain of the ego be set aside as the illusion that it has always been. You need nothing at all to be at Peace. There is no material condition or absence thereof that is possessed of the power to alter your innate and eternal Peace. It lives in your heart, kept Safe by God and awaiting the moment when you surrender all desires, so that you can be shown that to be is all that has ever been more than enough. To be, at One with Love, is to be United with God, never to believe in the possibility of dissociation or dislocation again, and it is from that exact state that all that you are to learn in this world becomes complete, no longer needed and no longer possessed of any value, for you have transcended all material limitations and you have Remembered your Freedom, just as it was Created to be for you, so that you can Create with God in a Joy and a Peace that has no cessation, for it arose before time began and it will continue forever. To be unloving towards yourself is to attempt to hold out to God some form of contemplation or evaluation that dictates that Creation contains an error, and that is a foolhardy proposition indeed. Acceptance of the Perfection of Creation must engender some level of surrender within your heart, even if that allowance of the arising of the possibility of a thought that could begin to reach towards the Unity of Creation is fleeting, at least at first. Allow it to be as such. Do not be concerned if it flits about, at times powerful and at other times diminishing in scope. It is the hope in the Truth of God that you hold in your heart that powers such a concept, being an abstraction of Truth in a form that is most beneficial to you indeed, for from its initial arising, it can become a mighty force of alteration, continuously providing ever-greater examples of why it is that what you proposed - that hate is a valuable commodity that can be traded for anything at all that you might wish to possess - was but an error that has no need of continuance. To be loving towards yourself is to honor God within your heart, allowing all to be as it is, without some form of countenance that belies a mind in conflict with itself. The resolution of all that afflicts you is to release all struggle unto God, so that God can be allowed to show you what it is that you have conceived of in error, and equally so that you will become ever more willing to be flexible in your desire to listen to your heart first, nevermore allowing your mind to take over and to determine what it is that is to be the presumed import of any particular situation or event. Because God Loves you Completely, anything other than the exact same level of fervent adoration for your innate Perfection is unbecoming of a Child of God. Anything less than acceptance of the Judgment of God - one that has already found you to be worthy in every manner that could have meaning within any mind that is rational at all, is but to deny your innate ability to be at Peace. God is not affected or afflicted by your desire to be less that All That Is. God awaits your acceptance, for nothing will be forced upon you that you are not genuinely willing to uncover and then rest within. But why should any more time elapse while you remain in struggle with your own Grace, when its acceptance can liberate you from any further conflict? Because God already Knows you, just as you are, and because you are accepted, just as you were Created, no grounds upon which you can stand and argue otherwise actually exist. All of them are but illusionary pulpits from which you attempt to declare that the Creations of God are not Perfect, and yet you will never be correct in your allegations. Alter this perspective to one of surrender unto God, and you will equally become increasingly more willing to surrender unto your own heart as well, a choice that will bode well indeed for all that is yet to transpire for you, for from a state of Trust in yourself, your willingness to Trust God will only increase as well, for no separation between your beautifully perfect heart and God exists. Break down all of the contrived barriers that you see as standing between you and infinite Peace, and it will be yours to Remember again, never to be forgotten, just as God has never forgotten you whilst you dwelled in a nightmare of isolation that was always only of your own creation.