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<center>'''I place the future in the Hands of God'''</center>
I place the future in the Hands of God.
Today's idea takes another step toward quick salvation, and a giant stride it
is indeed! So great the distance is that it encompasses, it sets you down just
short of Heaven, with the goal in sight and obstacles behind. Your foot has
reached the lawns that welcome you to Heaven's gate; the quiet place of
peace, where you await with certainty the final step of God. How far are we
progressing now from earth! How close are we approaching to our goal!
How short the journey still to be pursued!
Accept today's idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all
blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by
guilt. Accept today's idea, and you have released the world from all
imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to
freedom on it. You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you
give the world, because you have received.
In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived. In
no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully.
In no one instant can one even die. And so each instant given unto God in
passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from
sadness, pain and even death itself.
God holds your future as He holds your past and present. They are one to
Him, and so they should be one to you. Yet in this world, the temporal
progression still seems real. And so you are not asked to understand the lack
of sequence really found in time. You are but asked to let the future go, and
place it in God's Hands. And 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.
Release the future. For the past is gone, and what is present, freed from its
bequest of grief and misery, of pain and loss, becomes the instant in which
time escapes the bondage of illusions where it runs its pitiless, inevitable
course. Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy
instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God's Son is freed to bless
the world. Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free
with him, to share his holiness.
If you can see the lesson for today as the deliverance it really is, you will
not hesitate to give as much consistent effort as you can, to make it be a part
of you. As it 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. And 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? What can he suffer? What can cause him pain, or bring experience of
loss to him? What can he fear? And what can he regard except with love?
For 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. He is sure that his
perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction. He 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. For thus you call the memory
of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the
truth of love. Think you the world could fail to gain thereby, and every
living creature not respond with healed perception? Who entrusts himself to
God has also placed the world within the Hands to which he has himself
appealed for comfort and security. He lays aside the sick illusions of the
world along with his, and offers peace to both.
Now are we saved indeed. For in God's Hands we rest untroubled, sure that
only good can come to us. If we forget, we will be gently reassured. If we
accept an unforgiving thought, it will be soon replaced by love's reflection.
And if we are tempted to attack, we will appeal to Him Who guards our rest
to make the choice for us that leaves temptation far behind. No longer is the
world our enemy, for we have chosen that we be its friend.
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''I place the future in the Hands of God'''</center>
I place the future in the Hands of God.
Today's idea takes another step toward quick salvation, and a giant stride it
is indeed! So great the distance is that it encompasses, it sets you down just
short of Heaven, with the goal in sight and obstacles behind. Your foot has
reached the lawns that welcome you to Heaven's gate; the quiet place of
peace, where you await with certainty the final step of God. How far are we
progressing now from earth! How close are we approaching to our goal!
How short the journey still to be pursued!
Accept today's idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all
blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by
guilt. Accept today's idea, and you have released the world from all
imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to
freedom on it. You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you
give the world, because you have received.
In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived. In
no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully.
In no one instant can one even die. And so each instant given unto God in
passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from
sadness, pain and even death itself.
God holds your future as He holds your past and present. They are one to
Him, and so they should be one to you. Yet in this world, the temporal
progression still seems real. And so you are not asked to understand the lack
of sequence really found in time. You are but asked to let the future go, and
place it in God's Hands. And 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.
Release the future. For the past is gone, and what is present, freed from its
bequest of grief and misery, of pain and loss, becomes the instant in which
time escapes the bondage of illusions where it runs its pitiless, inevitable
course. Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy
instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God's Son is freed to bless
the world. Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free
with him, to share his holiness.
If you can see the lesson for today as the deliverance it really is, you will
not hesitate to give as much consistent effort as you can, to make it be a part
of you. As it 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. And 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? What can he suffer? What can cause him pain, or bring experience of
loss to him? What can he fear? And what can he regard except with love?
For 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. He is sure that his
perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction. He 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. For thus you call the memory
of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the
truth of love. Think you the world could fail to gain thereby, and every
living creature not respond with healed perception? Who entrusts himself to
God has also placed the world within the Hands to which he has himself
appealed for comfort and security. He lays aside the sick illusions of the
world along with his, and offers peace to both.
Now are we saved indeed. For in God's Hands we rest untroubled, sure that
only good can come to us. If we forget, we will be gently reassured. If we
accept an unforgiving thought, it will be soon replaced by love's reflection.
And if we are tempted to attack, we will appeal to Him Who guards our rest
to make the choice for us that leaves temptation far behind. No longer is the
world our enemy, for we have chosen that we be its friend.
[[Category: Workbook I]]