WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:18.679 Good morning, Welcome, welcome to the daily listen of a 2 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:29.519 course in Miracles. Thank you for thank you for being 3 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:35.920 here for a moment with me, to to take some 4 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:47.159 time to spend with our father, take a moment in 5 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:56.000 our busy life to slow down in order to speed up. 6 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:08.719 And today we're at day seventy one, and that means 7 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:13.959 that we're gonna look at the idea of God's plan 8 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:25.000 for salvation. And uh, it is a a direct it's 9 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:29.280 a direct what do you call that? It's directly in 10 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.959 line with a lessoned from yesterday where we were looking 11 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:36.560 at my salvation comes from me, and the idea of 12 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:40.840 my salvation comes from me? Might be uh, one of 13 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.359 those ideas that you immediately pet yourself on the back, 14 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:51.040 gives give the ego that what we call I all 15 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:55.439 the credits for uh, whatever is happening. But what it 16 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.719 basically does, and we were looked at that yesterday too, 17 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:06.359 is isolation comes from me. Is a direct acknowledgment that 18 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:11.280 I have to make a choice and that choice is 19 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:18.039 solely in my hands and that I will always in 20 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:27.719 every situation receive what I have given the situation. And 21 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:30.599 yesterday we had a quick look at the idea of 22 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:37.000 fear and how to undo fear. And what became painfully 23 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:44.360 clear was that it is up to me what I 24 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:48.159 associate with and what I think that I'm part of, 25 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:52.840 and that uh we were we were just quickly looking 26 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:59.319 at an idea of ingesting or like taking to me 27 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:04.599 the idea of pain and suffering a through the things 28 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.919 that I was watching, the movies, I was watching the 29 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:13.120 idea of the people I was associating with, the the 30 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:18.439 pain and suffering that I would dwell in the moment 31 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:22.919 I was holding on to grievances. And this is not 32 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:30.319 really a course in uh how to actually uh uh 33 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:34.159 treat your life or how to I should say that differently, 34 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:38.599 how to fill in your life by dos and don'ts, 35 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:43.360 Because what is very clear in the beginning of the 36 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:47.360 course is that the the reason why we do a 37 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:52.759 course in miracles, uh is the motivation for it lies 38 00:03:53.080 --> 00:04:01.479 in the experience of peace, and there is no other motivation. 39 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:08.879 And what I find one of the things that we 40 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:15.159 really have to be careful with is to regard one 41 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:23.839 thing as completely justified based on a reasoning that by 42 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:29.199 the way I made up, and something else is regarded 43 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:37.279 as completely unreasonable. And undesirable, but also based on my 44 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:42.240 own justifications for it. Because whatever we see here in 45 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:49.600 this world we either agree or disagree with based on 46 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:54.240 our own past memories and future wants, the things the 47 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:56.920 outcomes that we want in the future that we think 48 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:04.800 are appropriate. But today we're gonna look at God's plan 49 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:12.000 for salvation, and in that plan of salvation it's got, 50 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.920 it will become very clear that it is not really 51 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.040 up to me, but it is up to God if 52 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:25.680 I let him, and that there is only one thing 53 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:30.040 required of me, and it is to come with holy 54 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:39.600 empty hands and be open for the help to come 55 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:46.319 to me in whatever form, without judging if that form 56 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:54.199 is appropriate or not. And I really wanna associate with love. 57 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:00.720 I want I as Jesus says it in the Court Miracles, 58 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:06.279 you think what you are by the things that you 59 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:12.079 that you surround yourself with. And because I know that 60 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:20.160 pain and fear do not really help me think positively 61 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:30.279 or feel happy or joyful or even peaceful, those are 62 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:37.800 the things I don't surround myself with anymore. Does that 63 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:40.120 mean you have to change your diet? I have no idea, 64 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:49.879 don't ask me. I just know for myself that pain 65 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:59.360 and suffering are in direct opposite to the love and 66 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:04.439 the peace of God, and that is what I want 67 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:09.399 to associate with. So coming back to the decision of yesterday, 68 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:15.120 that my salvation comes from me. In other words, the 69 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.000 answer to every single problem that I perceive is always 70 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:26.319 coming from within, not made by my own by my 71 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:31.959 own ideas. But listen, but the willingness to listen within 72 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:37.040 me to the answer. So only God's plan for salvation 73 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:42.480 will work. You may not realize that the ego has 74 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:48.319 set up a plan for salvation in opposition to God's. 75 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:53.480 So again, you might not realize that that little voice 76 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:58.160 within you that we call I, that we call ego, 77 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.839 that we that we almost want to call something that 78 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:09.600 we cannot do anything about. I am I right. I 79 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:14.639 have to live, right, I have to survive here. I 80 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.399 need to go to my job in order to make money, 81 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:20.399 in order to pay my bills and to feed my children. 82 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:30.079 I don't know. I don't know. What I do know 83 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.879 is that I don't want to make any decisions as yet. 84 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:39.440 Let me see what God wants from me. Let me 85 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:43.480 see what his plan is. Instead of the plan of 86 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:48.799 knowing the right people having a bank accounts that you 87 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:55.480 can impress your friends with. But it goes on. It says, 88 00:08:55.879 --> 00:09:01.559 it is this plan in which you believe, I'm sustained 89 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:09.879 by the world and I'm sustained by the idea that 90 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.039 the ego is telling me. And we're gonna read I 91 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.639 hope in a minute, a little bit out of chapter fifteen, 92 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:27.000 where where it has become clear that the ego is 93 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:36.080 using time to prove destruction and with that telling me 94 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:45.679 that I am also bound by destruction. So that's the 95 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:51.240 plan that the ego is offering destruction and search. We're 96 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.080 gonna read that in the second search, but do not find. 97 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.440 If you would find it, that would mean the end 98 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:02.200 of the ego, and that that would mean like self destructive, 99 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:07.240 and that's of course not possible. The ego, the eye 100 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.519 always wants to be important, and how can it be 101 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:16.919 important if it's no longer needed. And that's something that 102 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.360 we really have to look at. That's why the poll 103 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:29.879 is so strong for change, the pool, to not the pool, 104 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:34.399 to not choose for change, to keep everything the same 105 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:43.200 and keep the search going. Try to find love outside 106 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:46.120 of me, Try to find love in another partner, Try 107 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:54.679 to find love in another form. It is the plan 108 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.120 in which you believe, since it is the opposite of 109 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:03.399 gods of God God, you also believe that to accept 110 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:08.960 God's plan in place of the ego, it's to be damned. 111 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:25.399 It's one thirty eighth, sir. I think so. Yes, he 112 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:31.559 got a little interrupted by someone that was walking in, 113 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:37.440 not knowing for what reason, but thinking that he was 114 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:45.039 looking for something and he did. Okay, since it is 115 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:50.120 the opposite of God's since the Egos plan, it is 116 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.759 the opposite of God's plan. You also believe that to 117 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:58.039 accept God's plan in place of the ego, in place 118 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:03.559 of the Egos plan is to be damned, because that 119 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:09.000 what you associate with you will cherish and you will 120 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:17.919 justify any type of form of ridiculous reasoning to hold 121 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:22.000 on to that plan until and that's when the motivation 122 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:27.360 really comes in, until you start to see that that 123 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:35.919 plan is designed to never reach the truth and to 124 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:47.399 never reach love, forgiveness, peace oneness. It is set up 125 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:59.000 to fail. This sounds purpor perposterous, of course, Yet after 126 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.240 we have con shouldn't just what the egos plan is, 127 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.799 perhaps you will realize that, however preposterous it may be, 128 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.600 you do believe in it, and that's where the real honesty, 129 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:21.440 of course, every single day comes in. And the great 130 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:26.600 thing is is that it is, thank God, only in 131 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:31.240 my hands. So before we have to embarrass ourselves in 132 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:40.559 front of family or friends, we can just pull back, 133 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:48.799 close the door, go in our closet, go in our bedroom, 134 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:54.879 and at least, if anything else, at least be honest 135 00:13:55.000 --> 00:14:02.519 to ourselves and simply look at it. That's the same 136 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:05.000 as yesterday, and we're gonna do it today again. Is 137 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:10.799 like walking through that cloud. On the outside, it looks 138 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:18.000 solid and unpenetrable, but when you walk through it, you 139 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:22.080 see that all your grievances and all the negativity and 140 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:25.840 all the things that this life seem to hold you 141 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:35.840 back simply are like a loose veil that you can 142 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:45.000 just push through and walk into the light. You look 143 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:57.600 up and you are blessed, but the everlasting light. The 144 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:04.159 egos plan for salvation centers er around holding grievances, and 145 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:10.279 it doesn't really matter in what kind of form. It 146 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:17.159 can show up as gossip, it can show up as 147 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:29.720 it can show up as protective measurements to protect your view, 148 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:39.360 to protect your standpoint, to protect your reasoning. But it 149 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:45.159 doesn't really matter how the grievance shows up. It is 150 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:52.200 merely by the fact of seeing grievances that the ego 151 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:59.480 dwells in that I what I call I dwell in. 152 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:04.240 And if you look back at whatever conversation you had 153 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:11.559 in the past days, weeks, months, you will see that 154 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:26.080 a lot of those conversations might be completely absorbed by 155 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:33.639 the idea of holding agreements. Someone tells me I cannot 156 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:43.120 do this or cannot do that. I don't like them, 157 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:46.000 And that's a great thing about just going into your closet, 158 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:54.840 be in your own space, in your bedroom for a second, 159 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:58.559 and to just really look at what you're doing in 160 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:05.200 your own mind, not so much because it is painful 161 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:12.359 for someone else, but to truly look at your own 162 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:19.359 ideas and see, is this really what I want? The 163 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:28.319 ego's plan for salvation centers around holding grievances. It maintains 164 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:35.160 that if someone else spoke or acted differently, if some 165 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:42.839 external circumstances or event were changed, you would be saved. 166 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:54.559 In other words, my biggest grievance is that you walked 167 00:17:54.599 --> 00:18:00.119 into the room not with a smile on your face. Ys, 168 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:11.279 and therefore I am unhappy if you would only smile 169 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:19.640 to me, I would be happy. But of course, if 170 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:26.480 you would walk in smiling, then that I would say. 171 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:33.160 If you only matched your shirt with your trousers, I 172 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:38.799 don't like the color combination, and it distracts me from 173 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:44.759 focusing on the lesson of today. If only you had 174 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:52.279 metched that in the morning, I would be happy. And 175 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:54.519 the funny thing is that we most of the time 176 00:18:55.880 --> 00:19:03.440 don't really think things through. We just spurt them out. 177 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:11.160 I don't like this, I don't like that, And what 178 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:19.640 we're basically saying is that's wrong. That's wrong. Meaning if 179 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:28.119 it will be different, I would be happy. And maybe 180 00:19:28.160 --> 00:19:32.480 that's helpful. Maybe you should do that. Maybe with every 181 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:36.599 single thing that you're saying that it's negative, you should 182 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:39.160 add if it would be different, I would be happy. 183 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:44.039 Maybe that will trigger something in my mind to realize 184 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:52.160 that it cannot be out there, because if that was 185 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:56.200 the truth, I would be damned forever. I would always 186 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:04.640 I would always have to wait for you, and if 187 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:07.240 you wouldn't see me or forget me, I would be 188 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:18.640 damned forever. Thus, the source of salvation is constantly perceived 189 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:35.119 as outside yourself. The source of salvation is constantly perceived 190 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:42.480 as outside yourself as what we were looking at yesterday. 191 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:47.119 The source of my grievances is constantly put outside of myself. 192 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.960 Each grievance you hold is a declaration and an assertion 193 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:59.079 in which you believe that says, if this were different, 194 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:06.799 I would be saved. And that's the whole thing. It 195 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:11.759 is an assertion, it is a declaration, It is an 196 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:17.559 It is something that I make very solid in my mind, 197 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:23.240 and today only God's plan for salvation will work. WILL 198 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.519 try to weaken that a little, to s to make 199 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:31.880 that soltness perceived. That's uh what it really Isn't that? 200 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:38.960 You know? We can easily walk through this cloud that 201 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:44.640 might surround us for a second and it looks evy, 202 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:49.519 it looks like it's everywhere, but that we can easily 203 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:59.680 just walk through into the light. The change of mind 204 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:04.319 necessary for salvation is thus demanded of everyone and everything 205 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:11.440 except yourself. And if you really look at any kind 206 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:18.759 of struggle in your life, the biggest struggle is that 207 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:21.400 I cannot change you, and I cannot live with that. 208 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.799 I try to do everything. I try to give you advice, 209 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:36.039 friendly friendly advice. I tell you how you could do 210 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:40.759 it differently. I can slam my fist on the table 211 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:52.480 and say you should do this, but you hardly change. 212 00:22:54.039 --> 00:23:00.240 So maybe, and we're only looking at the idea year 213 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:06.799 there's nothing else asked of us, Maybe we should break 214 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:10.240 that in. Maybe we should pull that idea in, bring 215 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:21.240 it closer to home, and realize that if we would 216 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:28.839 change our minds, if I would change my mind, I 217 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:37.160 might be a little bit more successful. The role assigned 218 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:47.960 to your own mind in this plan. The role assigned 219 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:53.720 to your own mind in this plan, then, is simply 220 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:58.440 to determine what other than itself must change if you 221 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:06.960 are to be saved according to this insane plan. And 222 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:12.319 any perceived source of salvation is acceptable provided that it 223 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:20.079 will not work. And that's a that that might well 224 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:24.759 be a tough one. That everything that we throw out 225 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:32.039 there that we actually don't want to work, And that 226 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:39.640 is for our love of being right, our love for 227 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:43.039 holding on to her grievance, that we can chew on 228 00:24:44.359 --> 00:24:47.319 and tell everyone around us like how pitiful we are 229 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:53.960 and look at me being a victim here. But what 230 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:57.599 we're actually asking for is someone that put an arm 231 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:05.000 around us for no reason whatsoever, because basically, what you're 232 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:14.640 always missing is that love, that love that I that 233 00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:19.519 I really that I really want, the joining that I 234 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:24.559 really want, and we seek it out there while it 235 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:28.599 is actually only within us that is what will really 236 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:34.240 satisfy me. All the other things will come and go, 237 00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:43.119 to come again and to go again. But here's the thing. 238 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:46.119 This is what the ego, that's what we call the 239 00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:53.319 eye brings. This ensures that the fruitless search, the fruitless search, 240 00:25:53.440 --> 00:26:01.799 will continue, for the illusion persists that although this hope 241 00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:06.839 has always failed, there are still grounds for hope in 242 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:11.839 other places and in other things. And thank God for 243 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:18.839 those eight billion people, because I shaked with thousands of 244 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:25.759 people hands and I still have billions to go, and 245 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:34.440 hopefully one of them will bring me salvation. But you 246 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:37.680 see that the problem is always bigger. Then I can 247 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:45.599 oversee what actually is very good reasoning to say that 248 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:50.680 let's not do my plan but God's plan, because I 249 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:58.039 cannot oversee it. Another person will yet serve better, another 250 00:26:58.119 --> 00:27:03.759 situation will yet offer success. Such is the ego's plan 251 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:10.319 for salvation. Surely, surely you can see how it is 252 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:18.119 strict accord with the ego's basic doctrine, seek but do 253 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:23.480 not find, for what could more surely guarantee that you 254 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:29.440 will not find salvation than to channelize all your efforts 255 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:39.359 in searching for it. Were not seeking a solution where 256 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:46.440 it is not. But here's the other side. Only God's 257 00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:51.200 plan for salvation will work. God's plan for salvation works 258 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:57.599 simply because by following his direction, you seek for salvation 259 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:05.279 where it is. And you don't have to agree with that. Again, 260 00:28:05.319 --> 00:28:07.279 the only thing that we're looking at now is a 261 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:16.240 little bit, tiny, tiny bit of willingness to open your 262 00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:23.279 mind for a new idea. I mean, like we have 263 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:31.279 constantly tried to do my plan with constantly the same results, 264 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:40.000 with the consistency of pain and suffering, constantly falling out 265 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:50.119 of peace. Let's see what happens. Let's look at God's 266 00:28:50.119 --> 00:28:57.480 plan for salvation. But if you are to succeed as 267 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:03.000 God promise you, you must be willing to seek there only. 268 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:11.079 If you are to succeed as God promises you, you 269 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:16.559 must be willing to seek their only. Otherwise your purpose 270 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:20.160 is divided, and you will attempt to follow two plans 271 00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:32.480 for salvation that are diametrically opposed in all ways. And 272 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:35.319 that's what we call put all your eggs in one basket. 273 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:42.039 You cannot serve God and Mammon. You have to choose 274 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:48.240 one or the other. But the promise from God is 275 00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:55.759 God says, choose for me, and everything else will be 276 00:29:55.799 --> 00:30:04.720 added onto it. You will not lack a single thing. 277 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:10.039 And that's where a little bit of trust goes a 278 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:19.400 long way. You cannot choose two things at the same time. 279 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:27.200 The result can only bring confusion, misery, and a deep 280 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:35.359 sense of failure and despair. So how can we escape 281 00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:45.480 all this? Only God's plan for salvation will work. Very simply, 282 00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:50.200 the idea for today is the answer. Only God's plan 283 00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:57.279 for salvation will work. There can be no real conflict 284 00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:02.960 about this because there is no possible alternative to God's 285 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:09.559 plan that will save you. And that is true because 286 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:15.839 it doesn't really matter what I tried. The eternal The 287 00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:29.119 idea of eternal life felt always very scary. But if 288 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:35.559 life is the only true thing, I have to change 289 00:31:35.599 --> 00:31:37.920 my mind about it. And the only way to change 290 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:44.519 my mind about it is to not try the same 291 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:53.680 tricks that I did before, but to let go of 292 00:31:53.799 --> 00:32:01.480 all the ideas that I had and try a different 293 00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:11.880 plan this time. His is the only plan that is 294 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:16.519 certain in its outcome. His is the only plan that 295 00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:25.079 must succeed. Let us practice recognizing this certainty to day, 296 00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:36.880 A happy outcome is certain to all things. That is 297 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:43.799 the real hope. And that is also where we bring 298 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.079 the idea from yesterday and to day back into the 299 00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:53.680 present moment. Is that grievances always have to do with 300 00:32:53.839 --> 00:33:01.400 something that was in the past or anticipate it in 301 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:13.480 the future. But what about here and now. Let's try, 302 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:27.400 just for a moment to lay aside all plans and 303 00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:33.440 let us rejoice that there is an answer to what 304 00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:43.680 seems to be a conflict with no resolution possible. How 305 00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:48.960 can the how is it possible that the answer is 306 00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:52.799 in the right here and right now. I remember yesterday. 307 00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:58.279 I know what is going to happen tomorrow based on 308 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:03.799 my expectations. But the only thing that I can say 309 00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:09.400 is that have a little talk with someone that you 310 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:20.440 met yesterday and ask them what they remember about yesterday. 311 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.880 And I can guarantee you that in line in certain 312 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:28.920 lines in the red line, it's probably gonna match up 313 00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:37.719 close to your idea of what happened yesterday. But you 314 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:46.760 will also discover that this person remembers different things than 315 00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:51.920 you do, or at the very least have different opinions 316 00:34:52.079 --> 00:35:06.719 about what happened yesterday. So don't look at the past, 317 00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:15.519 don't look at the future. Be in the right here, 318 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:20.039 right now, for just this second, let us do this 319 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:25.159 practice period, and then you're free to do whatever you want, 320 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:31.320 whatever whatever brings you peace. But be a little bit 321 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:43.079 willing to open this up for something completely different, because 322 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.039 all things are possible to God, and salvation must be 323 00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:53.800 yours because of His plan which cannot fail. And that 324 00:35:53.920 --> 00:36:03.519 is a promise that does not require any time. So 325 00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:06.719 I'll begin the two longer practice periods today by thinking 326 00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:13.599 about today's idea. Only God's plan for salvation will work, 327 00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:22.119 and realize that it contains two parts, each making equal 328 00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:31.719 contribution to the whole. God's plan for salvation will work. 329 00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:35.639 God's plan for your salvation will work, and other plans 330 00:36:35.679 --> 00:36:42.039 will not. Do not allow yourself to become depressed or 331 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:47.639 angry at the second part the idea that my plan 332 00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:50.599 or the egos plan, or however you wanna try to 333 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:58.800 claim what it is that that will not work. But 334 00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:02.199 I put all this effort in my plan, and now 335 00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:17.960 that was all in vain, Well, who cares? It's all 336 00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:22.280 in the past, And I was just sole in my 337 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:32.119 opinion about things that would work or wouldn't work, And 338 00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:40.360 the least helpful thing is having an opinion about the past. 339 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:48.280 God's plan for salvation will work and other plans will not. 340 00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:51.719 Do not allow yourself to become depressed or angry at 341 00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:56.360 the second part. It is inherent in the first my 342 00:37:56.559 --> 00:38:01.760 plan will not work. God's plan will. And in the 343 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:07.719 first only God's plan for salvation will work. Is your 344 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:11.400 full release from all your own insane attempts and mad 345 00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:17.159 proposals to free yourself. I don't have to come up 346 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:23.199 with the solution myself anymore. They have led to depression 347 00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:26.920 and anger. But God's plan will succeed. It will lead 348 00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:39.159 to release enjoy. Remembering this, let us devote the reminder 349 00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:42.920 of the extended practice period to asking God to rer 350 00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:59.039 reveal his plan to us. So I'm gonna I'm gonna 351 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:05.800 play a little song, and in the first part of 352 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:12.320 our exercise we really gonna look at only God's plan 353 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:17.639 for salvation will work and the release and enjoy and 354 00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:25.039 burden on my shoulder that is lifted up. We gonna 355 00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:31.960 be in that experience. And then we were gonna ask 356 00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:47.000 some questions. But first let's take a few seconds to 357 00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:51.840 think about God's plan for salvation. 358 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:22.719 Sweet New raisday fo ride New Sunder's rude in my safe. 359 00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:33.360 My plan I will lay aside for a second. Only 360 00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:40.360 God's plan for salvation you have will work can be called. 361 00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.679 But you were lways. 362 00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:59.000 So now we're released from fast and future ideas and 363 00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:07.679 are in the right here and right now. Now we 364 00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:14.559 can ask honest questions because we have no idea where 365 00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:22.679 we came from, no idea where we're going to. We're 366 00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:32.960 right here and right now, and I'm gonna ask very specifically, Father, God, 367 00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:47.800 Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, speak to me, now, what would 368 00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:57.639 you have me do? Where would you have me go? 369 00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:11.119 What wh what would you have me say into whom? 370 00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:18.280 In my I literally I'm literally gonna give up in 371 00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:26.280 my Savior, my own ideas you have and let me 372 00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:32.119 lead by the voice within which let me be guided 373 00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:39.960 by the Holy Spirit. Can I stretch my hand out? 374 00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:49.079 And because the thought is helpful in nice, I think 375 00:42:49.199 --> 00:43:00.800 of Jesus grabbing my hand and leading me. Say, Father, 376 00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:07.639 what would you have me do? Where would you have 377 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:29.880 me go? What would you have me say into whom? 378 00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:32.239 And don't be afraid that you cannot hear the answer. 379 00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:40.679 I will guarantee you that the answer is filling your 380 00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:47.960 heart with joy, will fill your heart with the spirit. 381 00:43:54.280 --> 00:44:01.920 God's plan for salvation will work nice. But let him 382 00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:13.480 answer these questions, and then now give him full charge 383 00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:17.920 of the rest of the practice period, and let him 384 00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:22.599 tell you what needs to be done by you in 385 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:31.719 his plan for your salvation. And we're coming back to 386 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:40.519 motivation and willingness. He will answer in proportion to your 387 00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:52.960 willingness to hear his voice. I am motivated. I'll let 388 00:44:53.280 --> 00:45:00.559 all my own plans go, and I will listen to 389 00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:05.519 his voice, answering the questions what would you have me do? 390 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:12.239 Where would you have me go? What would you have 391 00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:37.719 me say? And to whom I am willing to hear 392 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:51.400 his voice? And I refuse not to hear it. The 393 00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:57.960 very fact that you are doing the exercise now, where 394 00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:03.039 you lay down your own plan and asks for God's 395 00:46:03.239 --> 00:46:12.960 plan for salvation, proves that you have some willingness to listen. 396 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:31.840 A little bit of willingness goes a long way. That 397 00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:43.000 is enough to establish your claim to God's answer. Father, God, 398 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.400 what would you have me do? Where would you have 399 00:46:49.480 --> 00:47:52.880 me go? What would you have me say into whom 400 00:47:52.920 --> 00:48:03.400 only God's plan for salvation will work. So in the 401 00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:07.559