The idea for today [There is no will but God’s] can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. God’s is the only Will. When you have recognized this, you have recognized that your will is His. The belief that conflict is possible has gone. Peace has replaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. As an expression of the Will of God, you have no goal but His.
There is great peace in today’s idea, and the exercises for today are directed towards finding it. The idea itself is wholly true. Therefore it cannot give rise to illusions. Without illusions conflict is impossible.
There is no will but God’s. I cannot be in conflict.
…some related thoughts:
I am at peace.
Nothing can disturb me. My will is God’s.
My will and God’s are one.
God wills peace for His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 74, W-pI.74.1:1-2:4;3:2-9. See also ACIM Lesson 74 Insights.)
All the appearances of conflict in the world are not God’s Will. In fact, conflict is the effect of the ego’s opposition to God’s Will. The ego, the belief in separation, is the idea of conflict. But on the first page of the Course we are told that only Love is real. Thus conflict cannot be real.
Our resistance to accepting God’s Will as ours comes from the ego idea of sacrifice. The ego warns us that we will have to give up the ego’s fantasies if we accept God’s Will as ours. It tries to convince us that the forms it offers us — special relationships, status, pretty things and myriad other forms — have value. Yet their seeming value comes only from our belief in them.
The moment we remove our belief, the meaninglessness of the empty forms becomes clear. There is no value there. To give these up is to give up nothing. To accept God’s Will as ours is to gain everything that is real. This is the desire of our true Self — to remember Who we really are.
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