All idols of this world were made to keep the truth within from being known to you, and to maintain allegiance to the dream that you must find what is outside yourself to be complete and happy. ²It is vain to worship idols in the hope of peace. ³God dwells within, and your completion lies in Him. ⁴No idol takes His place. ⁵Look not to idols. ⁶Do not seek outside yourself.
Let us forget the purpose of the world the past has given it. ²For otherwise, the future will be like the past, and but a series of depressing dreams, in which all idols fail you, one by one, and you see death and disappointment everywhere.
To change all this, and open up a road of hope and of release in what appeared to be an endless circle of despair, you need but to decide you do not know the purpose of the world.
⁵Let [God] remind you of His Love for you, and do not seek to drown His Voice in chants of deep despair to idols of yourself. ⁶Seek not outside your Father for your hope. ⁷For hope of happiness is not despair. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.VII.6:1–8:1;10:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
If we were to accept the certainty of God’s Love for us, there would be no need for hope. We would know that we have all that we need in God’s Love. We would know that we are safe and that God’s eternal Life is ours.
To reach this certainty, we need to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our misplaced allegiance to the ego’s wish for specialness. The search for more than everything is a path of seeking but not finding. This search is guaranteed to lead to despair and dissatisfaction. But with the Holy Spirit’s guidance, we are led to where we find the only thing we need — God’s Love. Nothing else exists. His Love is our Home, our happiness and our peace.
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