Daily Inspiration

Turning Control Over to God

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.

²As [today’s idea] becomes a thought that rules your mind, a habit in your problem-solving repertoire, a way of quick reaction to temptation, you extend your learning to the world. ³And as you learn to see salvation in all things, so will the world perceive that it is saved.

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. ⁷He is sure that his perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction. ⁸He is free to choose again when he has been deceived; to change his mind when he has made mistakes.

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-194.4:5-6;6:2-8-2;9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

The ego is a control freak. If we identify with it, our lives are filled with worry that something might happen we cannot control. Or we are stressed with trying to control circumstances and fix other people to comply with what we think is right and good. Occasionally some things do go right, yet we worry that it will not last. And it won’t because illusions are inherently transitory.

It is time to turn control over to our Source Whose sole Will is that we share His peace, joy and Love. What He gives is real and eternal. When we accept His Will for us we have no worries, no efforting, no fear nor guilt. We rest in God’s peace, our eternal Home.

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