God did not create a meaningless world. How can a meaningless world exist if God did not create it? He is the Source of all meaning, and everything that is real is in His Mind. It is in my mind too, because He created it with me. Why should I continue to suffer from the effects of my own insane thoughts, when the perfection of creation is my home? Let me remember the power of my decision, and recognize where I really abide.
The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 53, W-pI.53.4;5:4-7. See also ACIM Lesson 53 Insights.)
The chaos of the world we see demonstrates the insanity of the ego thought system. It confirms the world’s unreality. It seems real only because we have identified with the ego thought system, believing we want what it offers. Yet all we have ever gotten from this world is unreliability, fear and guilt. Sooner or later we all come to a point of thinking there must be a better way. Thankfully there is.
The better way is to turn our back on unreality and accept that we really want God’s gifts of changeless Love, perfect happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed. To claim these gifts, we simply need to give up the value we have given to the world that denies these gifts. The ego would tell us this is a sacrifice. But is it really a sacrifice to give up what is an illusion and has no value in exchange for the reality of God’s changeless Love and peace?
We really do share God’s Will for us. We really do want the joy He offers. We really do want to know the safety of God’s changeless Love. His Will is ours. This is all we really want.
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