Give over every plan you have made for your salvation in exchange for God’s [plan]. His will content you, and nothing else can bring you peace. For peace is of God, and no one beside Him.
Be humble before Him, and yet great in Him. And value no plan of the ego before the plan of God.
Every allegiance to a plan of salvation apart from Him diminishes the value of His Will for you in your own mind. And yet it is your mind that is the host to Him.
In your practice, try to give over every plan you have accepted for finding magnitude in littleness. It is not there. Use the holy instant only to recognize that you alone cannot know where it is, and can only deceive yourself. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.IV.2:6-3:2;3:6-7;4:5-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Most of the Course focuses on helping us realize we don’t really want the world the ego made. The peace of God cannot be found there. In fact, the ego’s world is the denial of God’s peace because it is the denial of God’s infinite, universal Love.
What we really want is God’s peace. And God’s Will is that we have His peace. To have His peace and His joy and His Love, we need only accept that His Will is in fact our Will.
When we identify with the ego, we are choosing the ego’s plans to bring us what we think we want. But all the ego can offer is empty substitutes for the gifts of God we really want. Yet God’s gifts are available to us in every instant. We need only relinquish the plans we made with the ego and welcome God’s plan for our perfect happiness and limitless peace.
Our practice today is to give over all plans we have made on our own with willingness to receive God’s plan. It is our journey to Heaven.
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