Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā We think others cause us problems because of their actions which seem to lack love. But I donāt have a problem because you seem to lack love. Neither of us really lacks love. But we can believe we do. But in reality, nothing that happens in the world changes the fact of our perfect innocence, our perfect Oneness, our being as God created us. And if reality isnāt changed by anything that happens, then we neednāt fear nor despair over anything that happens. To do so is to believe in illusions and make them real in your mind instead of God being Real. We use these tiny made-up things to try to prove to ourselves that God is not Real, and that what we made is. Because while we believe we are in this world, the part of our mind that believes in the ego will do whatever it can to make sure the ego survives. We are trading God for fear. A hollow, painful trade. But even that is only temporary for as long as we believe it.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā But the part of our mind that remembers the feeling of Oneness with God drives us to seek to fulfill that desire for Oneness through relationships with others in the world, which can never fulfill that need. Only Oneness with God can fulfill that need. But we use every substitute we possibly can in the world. This is what the Course refers to as idols, because they are our attempts to substitute for God. We try food, pills, drugs, alcohol, sex, relationships, shopping, pornography, hobbies, books, sports, gurus, teachers, therapists, you name it. But none of it works, because none of it is God. Not even religion. Even religion is a man-made substitute for God. But it is not God. Most religions are the egoās tool for keeping you entrenched in guilt, while you seem to be searching for God. Even a good substitute done with good intentions is still not God. Nothing can substitute for our actual Oneness with God. And it is our task to seek and find all the obstacles that we have built to block us from our awareness of Godās Love and presence within our very being. We seek everywhere outside ourselves for a God who is already inside of us, though we are unaware of it. But our lack of awareness of it doesnāt make it any less True. Nor does our believing in things of this world make them any more true, except in our minds. We search for evidence in the world that the world is true, and only pay attention to the things that validate what we already believe, ignoring the rest, and then we use this āevidenceā to bolster our very beliefs, which are the only thing that makes them seem real. What if we put that same energy into validating and confirming evidence that God is Real? Or just taking down all the blocks weāve built to our awareness of His Love? That would be energy well spent. All else is flailing at windmills and believing them the source of our power, while all the while true omnipotence lives within us in our Oneness with God, who created us out of His Infinite, Eternal, Omnipotent, Omniscient Self. It is this that we would trade for idols. It is this that we would trade to be a tiny, individual self, seemingly stuck in a body that will wither and die. Would you continue to make this choice if you knew that that was what you were choosing? You can as long as you want to, and God will not interfere, because He knows the Truth, and He knows you will eventually remember it, too. He knows what You really are and He knows only that, because the rest is just illusion. Look for messengers of the ego and you will find them. Look for messenger of God, and you will find Him. Which will you choose to look for and find?
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