I place the future in the Hands of God.
Accept today’s idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt. ²Accept today’s idea, and you have released the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it. ³You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.
In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived. ²In no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully. ³In no one instant can one even die. ⁴And so each instant given unto God in passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from sadness, pain and even death itself.
Release the future. ²For the past is gone, and what is present, freed from its bequest of grief and misery, of pain and loss, becomes the instant in which time escapes the bondage of illusions where it runs its pitiless, inevitable course. ³Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God’s Son is freed to bless the world. ⁴Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free with him, to share his holiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.2–3;5. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)
The ego wants us dead, its ultimate “proof” that separation is real. All the pain and suffering it leads us through is all intended to lead us to the final proof.
On the other hand, God’s Will for us, His Son, is eternal Life held happily in changeless Love. His Will for us is happiness and peace. Putting our future in His hands is certainly a better choice than giving any credence to the ego.
To guide us to the future God wills for us, He gave us the Holy Spirit. When we let the Holy Spirit guide our thoughts and actions, He will guide us safely through and out of the ego’s thought system of separation.
Because the Holy Spirit is God’s Teacher in our mind, when we put Him in charge, we are putting the future in God’s Hands. Today we choose to follow the Teacher Who leads us Home.
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