Course II - Teaching 6: Uncertainty about Tomorrow

Not to have always the same orientation in life, in short, the uncertainty about the future is a continuous suffering for the soul. Seemingly today the soul is in the hand of a happy conqueror; tomorrow, this dream-like king falls headlong and gets discouraged. The reading of a book opens today a new horizon in the mind of the reader, all dark points of the doctrine are elucidated, and tomorrow a new word, a new concept floods again and darkens the mind. Today a man says, “I have conquered the truth”; but tomorrow he shall establish that the truth is far away from him.
Also in daily life one sees so many strange cases: decent men who commit undue actions that, according to them, they have erased for ever from their moral behavior; every day one sees that men who had chosen the path of virtue and spiritual progress, now turn around and transform themselves into statues of salt.
In front of so many facts like that, a soul anxiously wonders, “What shall happen with me tomorrow? Shall I arrive at the end of the Work?” Only Sacrifice can elucidate the tomorrow, because he who has left his work in the hands of God never can fall, because it is written on the Temple, “He who works for himself already has his own reward and tomorrow cannot claim for anything; but a person that works for the Great Work has his reward in the hands of the Masters”.
But, the more an individual being detaches himself from his self-love and the more he sacrifices himself by renouncing to the fruit of personal satisfaction, the less uncertain shall be his future.