There is a grand total of 220 unique Google results for the exact phrase “I am worthy of God’s love,” which is step 24 in Steps to Knowledge. It’s not one of those things I hear people say on a regular basis.
The top search result for this exact phrase is its presence in Steps to Knowledge. What does this mean? I think it means that whether this idea is true or false, whether this idea is right or wrong, Steps to Knowledge is a bold, loud and forthright proclaimer of this idea.
The first sentence of step 24 repeats the step, adding the word “indeed,” repeating the pattern of step 22.
And just when I think it’s safe to surmise that this is point of step 24, the very next sentence delivers an even more barbed point. This point is repeated in the first paragraph.
You are indeed worthy of God’s love. In fact, you really are God’s love. Without pretense of any kind, at the very core of yourself, this is your True Self. It is not the Self you yet experience, and until you do experience it, do not pretend that this is your experience. But hold in true awareness that this is your Self. You are a person, but you are greater than a person. How can you be unworthy of God’s love if that is what you are? Your Teachers surround you and provide that which you are so that you may experience yourself and your true relationship with life.
This is not the first time the phrase “True Self” has appeared. It first appeared in step 10 “What is Knowledge?” and appeared again in step 16 “Beyond my mind is Knowledge.”
The sentence “I am the self I deserve” could be punctuated in a number of ways at the end. But which way would make it the most truthful? I am the self I deserve. I am the self I deserve? I believe the punctuation Steps to Knowledge offers is “I am the self I deserve!”
Google doesn’t show this exact sentence to have been written anywhere yet, but I believe it is a succinct way of saying the point of step 24:
Knowledge is the love of God, and my True Self.
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Change “deserve” out for “am” and I think you’ve got it.