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 which 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 friends.
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