For the Love of God, Don't Look to the World

            God is within you. And this is where you look to find God’s Love. If you look to the world for proof of God’s Love, God will seem to be inconsistent at best and absent at worst.

God is within you. And this is where you look to find God’s Love. You will not find God when things go your way, because otherwise where is God when inevitably things do not go your way? Has God abandoned you? Is God punishing you? Is God testing you? Or are you missing how this bad fortune is good for you? You will twist your mind into a pretzel trying to prove to yourself how things going wrong for you is somehow God’s Love.

God is within you. And this is where you look to find God’s Love. God is not in synchronicity (coincidences). Because when you don’t see synchronicity, has God abandoned you? Or are you somehow failing to see the synchronicity? You will find yourself falling short more often than not.

God is within you. And this is where you look to find God’s Love. God is not in your personal relationships. Loved one’s will come and go, so if they go, is God abandoning you? If your loved ones fail to meet your personal needs, has God abandoned you? If you look for God’s Love in others, you will see their inconsistency as God’s.

God is not in the world. The world is not God’s World, or Reality. The real world, as described in A Course in Miracles, is a perception in your mind that reflects God’s Reality, it is not in the material world. It is a Vision; it is seen with Spiritual Sight. If you See the real world, it affects your mind, not the material world.

You have the Love of God within you. When you are in touch with It, you will feel detached from the material world and ego’s judgments on it, because ego values the material world as reality. You cannot have two realities; the false must give way to the Real. If you want the Love of God in your awareness, you must choose to be aware of God over the world. 

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