T. 26. VIII. 6 – 9. Jesus: “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 in it all effects that you will need to see. They can be experienced now. Why wait for them to ‘unfold in time,’ and fear they may not come at all, although they are already here?
You have been told that everything brings good that comes from God. And yet it seems to you as if this is not so! ‘Good,’ in present disaster’s form, is difficult to credit to God in advance of healing. Nor is there really sense in this idea. Why should the good appear in evil’s form? And is it not deception if it does? Its cause must be here and now, if it appears at all.
Why then, would not salvation’s effects also be apparent now? Why would they be in the future? And must you seek to be content with sighing, and then ‘reasoning’ that ‘you do not understand it now, but will someday,’ when, supposedly, its meaning will become clear?
This is not reason! For it is unjust, and clearly hints at suffering 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 strikes, to be perceived as ‘good’ some day but now in form of pain. This ’sacrifice’ is but a sacrifice of now, which could not be a cost the Holy Spirit asks for what He gave without a cost at all!
Yet this illusion has a cause which, though untrue, must be already in your mind. And this illusion is but one effect that the cause engenders, and one form in which its outcome is perceived. This interval in time, when retribution is expected as the form in which ‘the good’ appears, is but one aspect of the little space that lies between you and your brother, unforgiven still.
Be not content with some idea of ‘future happiness.’ It has no meaning, and is not your just reward! For you have cause for freedom now. What profits freedom in a prisoner’s form? Why should deliverance be disguised as death? Delay is senseless, and the ‘reasoning’ that would maintain effects of present cause must be delayed until a future time, is merely a denial of the fact that consequence and cause must come as one.
Look not to time, but to the little space between you still, to be delivered from! And do not let it be disguised as time, and so preserved because its form is changed and what it is cannot be recognized. The Holy Spirit’s purpose now is yours. Should not His happiness be yours as well?”