God holds your future as He holds your past and present. ²They are one to Him, and so they should be one to you. ³Yet in this world, the temporal progression still seems real. ⁴And so you are not asked to understand the lack of sequence really found in time. 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.
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.
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;7:1-6;8:1-2;9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)
In this world it seems that our survival depends on planning for the future. But this planning is focused on survival of the body, which is not our true Self. Planning is an essential part of the ego’s scheme to distract us from remembering we are eternally safe in God’s Love.
We do not need to plan for our future. The future of our true Self is in the eternal now. We remain one with our Creator. In place of planning for the future we need to dedicate our time to taking the steps needed to awaken to the eternal present. The ego uses the past to plan for the future, completely overlooking the present.
The eternal present never changes. God is in the eternal present. There is no other moment in truth. When we forgive the past, our awareness of God’s Love now becomes clear. We rest in perfect safety when we trust ourselves to Him. He holds us safely in His Love. The changelessness of His Love is ours now. In gratitude we rest in His eternal peace.
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