T. 26. VIII. 5 – 7. Jesus: “Salvation is immediate! The plans you make for safety, as you listen to the ego, all are laid within the imagined future, where you cannot really plan. No purpose has been given the future as yet, so what will happen has as yet no cause. Who can predict effects without a cause?
And who could fear effects unless he thought they had been somehow caused, and judged disastrous now? Belief in sin, something unlike God’s Creation yet within it, is what arouses fear. And like its cause within your mind, this belief is looking forward, looking back, but overlooking what is here and now.
Yet only here and now its cause must be, if sin’s ‘effects’ have been already judged as fearful. And in overlooking this, is it protected and kept separate from healing!
For a miracle is now. It stands already here, in present grace, within the only interval of time that sin and fear have overlooked, but which is all there really is to time. The working out of all correction takes no time at all. Yet the acceptance of the working out can seem to take forever!
The change of purpose the Holy Spirit brought to your relationship has within it all effects that you need see. They can be looked at now! Why wait till they ‘unfold in time,’ while fearing that they may not come, although they are already here? You have been told everything that brings good that comes from God. And yet it seems as if this is not so. ‘Good’ in disaster’s form is difficult to credit in advance. Nor is there really sense at all in this idea!
Why should the good appear in evil’s form? And is it not deception if it does? Its cause is here, now, if it appears at all. Why are its effects not apparent, then? Why place it in the future? And so you seek to be content with sighing, and with ‘reasoning’ that you do not understand it now, but somehow will ‘someday,’ when its meaning will be clear, supposedly!
Why should the good appear in evil’s form? And is it not deception if it does? Its cause is here, now, if it appears at all. Why are its effects not apparent, then? Why place it in the future? And so you seek to be content with sighing, and with ‘reasoning’ that you do not understand it now, but somehow will ‘someday,’ when its meaning will be clear, supposedly!
This is not reason; for it is unjust, and clearly hints at punishment until the time of liberation is at hand. Given a change of purpose for the good, there is no reason for an interval in which disaster may strike, to be perceived as ‘good’ someday but now in form of pain.
No indeed! To plan for future safety is a sacrifice of now, which could not be the cost the Holy Spirit asks, for what He gave without a cost at all.”