Lesson 225: “What is Forgiveness?” “God is my Father and His Son loves Him.”
This lesson says, “Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. I must return it, for I want it mine in full awareness.”
I very much appreciate the Course’s message that we don’t have to sit around and stroke God’s ego, to ensure we avoid spells where we forget to constantly fill God up with how wonderful He is. I definitely felt stressed about this early on in my life and it made me feel always on the look out and also became hyper-vigilant that I cared for managing and putting out the constant attention God needed- with words of idolizing to keep God appeased.
This always felt like an eminent dead end because when we believe this about God, there is no way to sustain this in any relationship we have because it is a never ending task- even when it comes to God.
The Course specifically teaches that God has no ego and therefore He is never in need of being fed constant kudos.
God doesn’t need constant attention because God is not needy. That is the nature of the ego- not God. Therefore, we don’t at all need to feel like we are assigned this task of caring for God’s neediness in giving God regular pats on the back. We can let go of that tendency because there is no neediness in God and therefore God never expresses lack in hopes of coaxing us to give God constant attention. This is ever so important to understand that this behavior comes strictly from neediness.
When we see that in ourselves or in others this is an ego factor and we can resolve this by giving love to whoever is in the position of needing more love.
God is never like this because it is purely contrary to God.
When God asks us to spend time with Him, or acknowledge Him, this is for our benefit.