Only God’s plan for salvation will work. It is senseless for me to search wildly about for salvation. ³I have seen it in many people and in many things, but when I reached for it, it was not there. ⁴I was mistaken about where it is. ⁵I was mistaken about what it is. ⁶I will undertake no more idle seeking. ⁷Only God’s plan for salvation will work. ⁸And I will rejoice because His plan can never fail. [CE W-86.1]
Give over every plan that you have made for your salvation in exchange for God’s. ²His will content you, for there is nothing else that can bring you peace. ³For peace is of God, and of no one beside Him. ⁴Be you humble before Him, and yet great in Him. ⁵And value no plan of the ego before the plan of God. ⁶For you leave your place in His plan—which you must fulfill if you would join with me—empty by your decision to join in any plan but His. ⁷I call you to fulfill your holy part in the plan that He has given to the world for its release from littleness. ⁸God would have His host abide in perfect freedom. [CE T-15.IV.3]
You have not been asked to work out the plan of salvation yourself because, as I told you before, the remedy for what you have made is not of your own making. ²God Himself gave you the perfect Correction for everything you have made which is not in accord with His holy will. ³I have made His plan perfectly clear and perfectly explicit to you, and have also told you of your part in His plan and how urgent it is that you fulfill it. [CE T-5.X.4]
Only God’s plan for salvation will work.
You may not realize that the ego has set up a plan for salvation in opposition to God’s. ²It is this plan in which you believe. ³Since it is the opposite of God’s, you also believe that to accept God’s plan in place of the ego’s is to be damned. ⁴This sounds preposterous, of course. ⁵Yet after we have considered just what the ego’s plan is, perhaps you will realize that, however preposterous it may be, you do believe it. The ego’s plan for salvation centers on holding grievances. ²It maintains that if someone else spoke or acted differently, if some external circumstance or event were changed, you would be saved. ³Thus the source of salvation is constantly perceived as outside yourself. ⁴Each grievance you hold is a declaration, and an assertion in which you believe, that says, “If this were different, I would be saved.” ⁵The change of mind which is necessary for salvation is thus demanded of everyone and everything except yourself. The role assigned to your own mind, then, is simply to determine what, other than itself, must change if you are to be saved. ²According to this insane plan, any perceived source of salvation is acceptable, provided that it will not work. ³This ensures that the fruitless search will continue, for the illusion persists that although this hope has failed, there are still grounds for hope in other places and in other things. ⁴Another person will serve better; another situation will offer hope. Such is the ego’s plan for your salvation. ²Surely you can see how it is in strict accord with the ego’s basic doctrine, “Seek but do not find?” ³For what could more surely guarantee that you will not find salvation than to channel all your efforts into searching for it where it is not? God’s plan for salvation works simply because, by following His direction, you seek for salvation where it is. ²But if you are to succeed, as God promises you will, you must be willing to seek there only. ³Otherwise your purpose is divided, and you will attempt to follow two plans for salvation which are diametrically opposed in all ways. ⁴The result can only bring confusion, misery, and a deep sense of failure and despair. How can you escape all this? ²Very simply. ³The idea for today is the answer. ⁴Only God’s plan for salvation will work. ⁵There can be no real conflict about this, because there is no possible alternative to God’s plan that will save you. ⁶His is the only plan that is certain in its outcome. ⁷His is the only plan that must succeed. - [CE [W-71:1]-[W-71.6]]
that mind that trusts the Source of its creation allows all things, trusts all things, embraces all things, and transcends all things.
Only God’s plan for salvation can work for you.
humility to accept the first step of the path: *I have done all this; I must undo it. * *But I have no idea how I did this. * *Therefore, I must surrender to something else. - WoM, lesson 1
Library of Light Edition 1.0 — Last revised: March 2026