4-16. Choose your ego, and you choose nothing. Choose God and you choose everything. Although this is a simple distinction, the import and results of this choice truly do affect absolutely everything in your life.
That which is not, cannot be chosen. This seems a simple premise upon which to build a logical structure of analysis and evaluation, yet it is not as straightforward as it might appear, for the ego does not exist, and yet it is taken up again and again by the vast majority of the now incarnate Children of God, consistently in an attempt to hold out that which is nothing as an adequate and acceptable substitute for God, which is always All That Is. When you, voluntary or unconsciously, elect to look to your ego for the resolution of anything at all, you are querying a null in an attempt to derive a positive value, and that is a mathematical operation that has no validity. That which is not is simply nonexistent, and that is absolutely acceptable to God. As such, it should be acceptable to you as well, yet it is frequently the case that so many of the now material Children of God will lay a claim against the ego, demanding that it provide some form of response that it is fundamentally incapable of delivering, all the while wondering in what becomes a rather ponderous manner, when it is regarded from a higher and more universal perspective, why it is that they are never able to receive a reply that has any actual value for them at all. To pull something from nothing at all is the ambit and Miracle of God - not of the Children of God. That is a simple distinction, but much rides upon its full acceptance by your healing mind. Your heart already knows this Truth - that to God, to Create is Universal and there is no alpha point of continuity that must be derived before Creation can arise. But for those that are Created, while they are still imbued with all of the power to create just as they have been Created, each and every one must start from some conjunction point of Reality and creativity, for that is the nature of creation amongst the Children of God, and it will never stop being as such. Regardless of this universal Law of God, there is indeed a manifestation template from which all that can be created by a Child of God is already Complete - Love. Love is enough to be the imprint of the Truth of God within this world of form, allowing for the arising of all that you might desire to see manifest, for because of Love was Creation Given unto the Children of God for them to use as they feel is best, even if they believe - momentarily, from the perspective of Infinity - that they are best suited to create from nothing, namely by utilizing the ego as their first principle of creativity and then enjoying the derivative result of such a misunderstanding of the Nature of Creation. The ego does not exist, and so nothing can spring forth from its meaninglessness. Yet when you attempt to choose the ego, you do not decide against God - you merely invest more time in pursuing that which is not at all Real, affecting nothing at all and creating nothing that is eternal or even possessed of genuine utility, for all that is to be created must be able to be shared if it is to be reflective of the Creation of God in even the most tangential manner. To choose the ego is to be daft in your application of your own power, for you are attempting to beseech the universe to support a creative impulse that has no foundation in anything that is possessed of an energetic resonance that is in alignment with God in any way at all. That is hardly a fortuitous beginning to any endeavour, for all that will result is the application of illusion to the pursuit of more ephemeral dreams, altering nothing at all for you and producing nothing that can be shared without diminishment. Manifestation of physical circumstances that are supportive of your quest to be able to add a point of value to this world of form that can be promulgated amongst your Siblings without losing any of its transformative value is absolutely possible, for the universe will align with your intentionality to exactly the extent that you are selfless in your application of your innate abilities in the interest of assisting others to just the precise amount that you desire the necessary resources to be delivered unto your awaiting hands. It is hard to be a sage when one is starving and bereft of even the most meagre modicum of physical safety and stability. Yet the application of the principle of choosing God and recognizing the invigorating and peacefulness-increasing alterations that will unfold in your mind when you stop casting your energetic principles of organization into the dry well of the ego’s endless thirst for your attention will have benefits that will reach far beyond anything that is material. From a state of peacefulness and contentment, your mind can be free to dream in a manner that is much more appropriate and valuable for a Child of God who is beginning to See with the Sight of their heart, rather than with the vision of the ego, which of course is a perceptual framework that must always return only evidence of separation and loss, when no such Truth is reflected in Heaven or the Heart of God. Start slowly, if trusting in God is foreign to you. Elect but a few minutes a day to begin with any refrain that is appropriate for you, but that is one that is in the vein of surrender. Allow your heart to speak to you of what it is that would genuinely be the most idea physical situation and alignment of opportunities that would allow you to feel the most fulfilled and sated of your desire to create. If you rail against this proposition and desire to alledge that you have no creativity at all, then start even more slowly, attempting to remember at least one time in your life when you felt safe enough - generally for most, when they were young - that you were able to lose yourself in play. For through playing, whether it be games or in imaginary interactions with friends of any sort, the ego is placed on a temporary hiatus and the heart emerges as the natural leader that it is, for children frequently are not yet dispossessed of their dreams to such an extent that they are wholly divorced of the ability to imagine what it is that they would like to be manifest, and then to revel within such ponderings, using the power of creativity to imagine them as real, even if they are fanciful indeed. This is the application of the choice to choose God in practical form - the willingness to imagine what it is that would be ideal, and then to trust that your desire to be shown the correct path or course through your life that could lead to a situation that is in energetic resonance with your expressions - even if the material format and presentation is not exactly as you imagined - can indeed arise rapidly and without any expenditure of effort on your part, for it most certainly can, as nothing is impossible to God. Trust in your ego and you cast all of your energy towards a companion that cannot know you at all, for it knows not of its own hollow nature, and so it cannot provide to you that which you have ever sought. Trust in God and you will be acknowledged with seemingly coincidental arisings of opportunities and possibilities that you might have otherwise overlooked or even rejected outright, simply because you were still living within the manifestation sphere of the ego, which is one of abject denial of all goodness and light, for the ego wishes only for loyalty to and for itself, and if you were to be distracted by dreaming of a life that is possessed of a peacefulness that the ego cannot understand, the ego must condemn your imaginings, for they are a direct threat to the ego’s dominance of your mind and so they must be seized upon and cast out, lest a revolution of Truth sweep over your mind and free you from the ego’s endless bondage. What you choose defines all that will arise in the future. Choose nothing and nothingness will become your home, and you will dwell in a sense of discontentment that has no direct causation. Choose God and Light will begin to seep in through the cracks in the ego’s armament, a Light of such Perfection and Peace that you will begin to continuously desire to choose God more and more, until such a time that the election will become innate and rote. From such a place of acceptance, all that is best will unfold when its time is most opportune for you to encounter it, regardless of your ability to understand the exact timeline that is employed to produce the appropriate alignments that have the most to teach you. Liberation from the anguish of the ego is a choice, and you are forever free to choose just as is best for you. One is to ask for nothing and to see it in everything. The other is to ask for God and then to be show Love in All That Is, an alteration of perspective that will leave nothing else to be desired at all, forever.