Lesson 71

Only God's plan for salvation will work. The ego's plan for salvation centers around holding grievances. It tells you if someone else spoke or acted differently, if some external circumstance or event were changed, you would be saved. The source of salvation is constantly perceived as outside yourself. "If this were different, I would be saved." This plan is insane. This source of perceived salvation is acceptable provided that it will not work. This ensures your suffering. The doctrine of the ego, "Seek but do not find." God's plan for salvation works because by following His direction, you seek for salvation where it is. If you are to succeed, as God promises, you must be willing to seek there only. Otherwise, your purpose is divided and you will attempt to follow two plans for salvation that are diametrically opposed in all ways. The result can only bring confusion, misery, and a deep sense of failure and despair. How can you escape all this? Only God's plan for salvation will work. Rejoice that there is an answer to what seems to be a conflict with no resolution possible. All things are possible to God. Salvation must be yours because of His plan, which cannot fail. Ego's plan leads to depression and anger; God's plan will succeed. It will lead to release and joy. Ask God to reveal His plan to you.

What would You have me do?
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me say, and to whom?

Give Him full charge, and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you in His plan for your salvation. He will answer in proportion to your willingness to hear His Voice. Refuse not to hear. The fact that you are doing the exercises proves that you have some willingness to listen. This is enough to establish your claim to God's answer. Tell yourself often that God's plan and only His will work. Be alert to all temptation to hold grievances today, and respond to them with this form of today's idea:

Holding grievances is the opposite of God's plan for salvation. And only His plan will work.

Remember today's idea several times an hour. There could be no better way to spend a half minute or less than to remember the Source of your salvation, and to see It where It is.