The mind engaged in planning for itself is occupied in setting up control of future happenings. ²It does not think that it will be provided for, unless it makes its own provisions. ³Time becomes a future emphasis, to be controlled by learning and experience obtained from past events and previous beliefs. ⁴It overlooks the present, for it rests on the idea the past has taught enough to let the mind direct its future course.
The mind that plans is thus refusing to allow for change.
Your present trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. ²Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.
Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. ²And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born.
²We will be sure that everything we need is given us for our accomplishment of [God’s plan] today. ³We make no plans for how it will be done, but realize that our defenselessness is all that is required for the truth to dawn upon our minds with certainty. (A Course in Miracles, W-135.15:1–16:1;19:1–20:2;21:2-3. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)
Everything in the world is uncertain. Illusions are inherently unstable and unreliable. When we believe we dwell in illusions, there is always an underlying anxiety that makes us feel a need to provide for our protection. Yet within this dream there is nothing that can guarantee protection.
But beyond this dream there is guarantee of sure protection in the Reality of God’s Love. This is our Home in truth. We can trust God’s Love, for It never changes, never is held back nor conditional. God offers His plan for our safety and release from fear through the Holy Spirit. He is the reliable Source to lead us to the full awareness that we rest in God’s Love, now and forever.
Our safety is guaranteed by God. As we let the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts and perceptions, the uncertainty of the world is replaced by the certainty of God’s Love. Today is another day to open our minds to His certainty.
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