I will receive whatever I request.
No one desires pain. ²But he can think that pain is pleasure. ³No one would avoid his happiness. ⁴But he can think that joy is painful, threatening and dangerous. ⁵Everyone will receive what he requests. ⁶But he can be confused indeed about the things he wants; the state he would attain. ⁷What can he then request that he would want when he receives it? ⁸He has asked for what will frighten him, and bring him suffering. ⁹Let us resolve today to ask for what we really want, and only this, that we may spend this day in fearlessness, without confusing pain with joy, or fear with love.
Father, this is Your day. ²It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 339, W-339. See also ACIM Lesson 339 Insights.)
We have a Guide in our mind Whose sole purpose is to lead us to the perfect happiness God wills we have. Only His joy will satisfy us, His Son.
The ego is unwilling to accept God’s equal gift of joy to all. It wanted more than everything. It was a request that God change the oneness of Love He is. When we identify with the ego, we make that same request. We ask for what God cannot give and receive instead the ego’s dream of specialness. It seems to offer us things that will make us happy. Yet it all comes without Love because Love is given equally to all. The loveless world will never satisfy though it can give appearances we like and that seem to give us pleasure and happiness. Yet without Love, it is an empty and meaningless shell.
Today we choose to follow the Voice for God. His Voice will lead us to everything we truly want. It will lead us to the unlimited Love of God, the Home of our true Self. His Voice is a call to joy and peace. It is a call to awaken to the Love we share with every brother that never ends. This is all we really want.
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