⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. ⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless.
²As it becomes a thought that rules your mind, a habit in your problem-solving repertoire, a way of quick reaction to temptation, you extend your learning to the world. ³And as you learn to see salvation in all things, so will the world perceive that it is saved.
What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the loving Hands of God? ²What can he suffer? ³What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him? ⁴What can he fear? ⁵And what can he regard except with love? ⁶For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten. ⁷He is sure that his perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction. ⁸He is free to choose again when he has been deceived; to change his mind when he has made mistakes.
Place, then, your future in the Hands of God. ²For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love.
²For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.4:5-6;6:2–8:2;9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)
The ego is afraid of the future because it hangs on to a fearful memory of the past. It sees only uncertainty, so it makes plans for the future to try to control what happens and be safe. Because the ego itself is an illusion, all its plans are illusions with inherent uncertainty. As long as we identify with the ego, this is our state of mind.
But we have an alternative that brings us certainty and peace. If we are willing to place the future in God’s hands, we accept His peace as ours. God is certain because He is changeless Love. We can relax into His certainty, knowing that His plan for us is to keep us forever safe within His eternal Love. This is the Home He holds for us. We need only place our future in His Hands to claim our Home as our own. We are grateful that His plan for us is perfect peace, joy and Love.
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