The
'land flowing with milk and honey' is within you. The preparation of the feast has been
accomplished. The lighted way for thy feet to travel and the heart made mature with
understand ing has been given thee. Thou shalt diligently pursue the way that leadeth
toward that place of understanding and liberty, for thou shalt know in thine heart and
pursue in thy course that which has been given thee of the Lord. Thou shalt hear in thine
ear a voice saying unto thee, "This is the way, walk ye in it,' and thou shalt know
of a cer tainty that as thou dost pursue the course of the way of thy God, thou shalt find
for thee that dwelling place in thy God where no ravenous beast can enter and that which
maketh a lie is without. The paths of the Lord are
pleasant paths, and that which thou art pursuing leadeth to the throne room of thy God,
where thou shalt commune with thy God day and night. Thou shalt have an understanding and
a spirit void of offense; and thou shalt know that as thou dost perceive the way of the
Lord, thou shalt rejoice, for thou goest not in alone in that place of fellow ship, for
thou takest with thee thy brother and thy sister. Thou art permitted to be an ensample for
those that perceive thou hast been with the Lord. Thou shalt be clothed upon with the
glorious garment of modesty and thou shalt be made perceptive, for that mind which is in
thee is that mind which was also in Christ Jesus, thy Lord. With that mind, void of
offense, with thine heart set in willing obedience, and with thy will surrendered, wilt
thou not know the pleasant ways which are of the Lord?
Yea, I say unto thee, thou shalt indeed not only know them, but
thou shalt pursue that way, the way of thy God. Thou shalt hear from thy left side the
voices of confusion and thou shalt hear on thy right side the jangling of a bewildered
multitude, but thou shalt say in thy heart, 'Upon Thee, My Lord, have I fixed my gaze, and
unto thee will I pursue my course.
Let the love of God penetrate thine heart that thy journey may be
pursued with sympathetic helpfulness toward thy fellow-man; but that nothing disturbs the
course of thy journey, thou hast received divine enablement. It is the Lord that maketh
thy course straight and it is to the voice of thy God that thou hast attuned thine heart,
and thou hast been willing to reflect only that which has been given thee of the Lord. Thy
journey is in the course that has been illuminated as thou hast taken a step at a time,
for thou knowest not what lieth ahead, but thou hast meditated in thine heart that while
it is yet day and the light of understanding has been given of the Lord, 'I will sojourn
with Him.' On that course which the Spirit of the Lord ministers through thee, as He
laveth His hand upon those that inquire for Him thou shalt say with assurance, unto those
who seek the Lord: 'This is the Way, walk ye in it.' This is the course for thy feet to
travel and thou shalt meditate upon the Lord the God and thou shalt declare in thine heart
"To Him will I bow my knee and to Him shall I give the glory and the honor;" and
unto those who have been established in their heart, though that course leadeth through
the briars of misunderstanding and unbelief to that place of surrender__the eye single and
a heart made ready for the King__then "thou too shalt journey on to know Him in the
power of the Resurrection and in the fellow ship of His suffering; and thou shalt be made
conformable unto His image and thou shalt be set apart that the purposes of Almighty God
may be accomplished in thy life, for thy way has been a way of rote and thy thoughts have
been thoughts of limitations; but the thoughts and the meditations that thou shalt
henceforth embrace shall be given thee of the liberating Spirit of thy God, and thou shalt
be freed from the thoughts of limi tation and the way of discouragement"
Though thou passest through the storms, thou shalt move
steadfastly, adhering to the course which I shall give thee; and thou shalt not know the
chartering of thy steps, but thou shalt know the confidence that shall be thine as thou
walkest on The
King's Highway.
Thou shalt see mighty men fall and as thou hast watched meteors
drop from the heavens, so shall thou observe the falling of the mighty men; but thou shalt
not fear, for thou shalt pur pose in thine heart that only that which pleaseth Me shall
please thee.
Though a host should encamp against thee, thou shalt not fear; though the
earth be removed, yet in that place of union with Me shalt thou stand in that evil day
with confidence that that which I have begun I will finish.
Hadst thou known the course of the North Wind, thou wouldst have
known when to travel South. But I give to those birds that knowledge that before the wind
comes they migrate to the sunny clime and to My Children I give the Spirit that maketh
them to know not only the course of the North Winds but the knowledge that perceives the
thoughts of thine enemy before he knoweth that he is to think them.
Long thou hast leaned upon thine own understanding and hast made
thy plans according to thine own pattern, for thou hast remembered in the days that are
passed that thou didst hear from thy Lord and thou saidst He doeth according to this
pattern, so it is well that I proceed today according to the pattern that He has given me
in times past; but I say unto thee, "This is a new day and for it there must come a
new pattern, for it must come the necessary directions given thee and that which is given
thee for this hour is not given thee to use but that thou mayest comprehend that which is
lived out through thee by My Spirit and thou canst see the manner in which I operate in My
Children and that thou mayest know of a certainty that this is the hour of the Lord thy
God. |