Happiness

Every one of God’s children, in their own way, has given Him great happiness; happiness because the link between you is now so strong and that your love for Him is growing and developing into that which will give Him more power over the direction of your life. God, under His mercy and love, brings into your province the capacity for giving you brightness, peace and happiness which is of the Spirit, as well as of the physical.

Think a little about the question of happiness. To some the suggestion causes a certain amount of alarm because it brings out in their mind thoughts that are too near to the earth and too far away from those spheres of holiness in which the soul ever longs to dwell; in harmony and in unity with its Maker.

God understands in a way impossible to describe. You must remember that He not only created you but was also responsible for bringing into being the great plan of life on earth. He built it for the happiness of His children, and if that happiness is missing it is the direct work of the evil which forever seeks to destroy that which is of the Most High!

Widen your borders in every way. In thought, in imagination, and above all try and widen those borders in regard to God. Happiness is not only for the life Beyond. It was meant to be the portion of all during the physical stages and if some have suffered, suffered because the evil in the past was too strong for the weakness of humanity, that is not God's will. He forever seeks to bring into your midst those joys which, if they do not represent Him, represent something of the joy which He has prepared for those that love Him.

Do what is necessary with the individual mind. Your growing love for Him is of all gifts the most precious because God longs, and has longed, to see His children safely cabined in the circle of right happiness, right joy and right peace; and these are one!

You have read in your Bible over and over again that to the chosen, certain discipline is necessary. You have been told that to the casual the great truths, the truths which are of the Holy Spirit, cannot be revealed to those who are estranged from God.

To the chosen, to those whose fidelity has been tried and tested again and again; to those who have come to grips in a most terrible way with the dark forces of evil, while they winced and shrank and prayed for deliverance the will held good and the road was followed on. To those who are prepared to relinquish self in this great quest, to throw aside those desires which alienate them from that which is of the highest; their willingness has been accepted of God. Hereafter those things which they tried to give up willingly and graciously shall be given to them in measure far exceeding anything that temptation sought to suggest.

That is His message. The Christ is your instructor and He has said that even as His children sought to offer up self on what has been called the "altar of sacrifice" these are the chosen; those who have been prepared to show others the way, to tear in two the veil which now hangs between the world of flesh and the world of the Spirit. That veil which was brought into being by humanity's lack of faith shall be ripped in two because some have suffered and were strong.

There is nothing in your language to portray the true position. But the Spirit within shall teach you better, shall inspire you, shall control you and, as you grow ready for it, shall reveal Truth in the measure that you can bear. Nothing shall be denied to the children of the Light if they are faithful, watchful and patient; nothing shall be denied! But you know full well that those things which come without any effort are worthless mockeries of the real, sent to torture and deceive by the shadows who invented them for humanity's downfall.

The road to God is steep, but it is as a range of beautiful mountains. Those in the valley look up and get a reflection of their splendour, but nothing more. Those who start to climb are very often disappointed. The first stages are hard and uninteresting, and now and again they look back on those beneath and ask themselves whether, after all, it would not have been better to have stayed with them; to have been content with the reflection of the beauty above, viewing it from the sheltered position in the valley beneath.

All go through that, and it is not easy to fight successfully. The road to God is steep! But then the Spirits take you on a step or two. Presently the Spirit is able to get the upper hand of the physical body and when that happens ambition springs into being. Once that feeling is there, although the strain is still felt, there is no question of turning either to the left or to the right and that which lies behind is no more!

These are the stages that you have been through and God’s children have grown very weary; heart-sick of the contending forces on their path. But God calls you on. God says: Come up hither that I may reveal to thee that which is of the Truth.

Come up hither! That is the call to the world at large; the call to arise, to be up and doing, and to listen to the Voice of the Spirit when the preparation is there. The Voice of the Spirit which first of all speaks in the mind and heart within and then, as they grow attuned to the finer vibrations of sound and of feeling, God is able to speak direct through them so that they can pass on this comfort to others.

This is not the end, it is but the beginning; make no mistake about that. Many are caught unaware by the last tide of temptation. They say that they have accomplished that which they sought to make their own, and now they can rest! They rest spiritually and that relaxation of vigilance produces devastation itself! Those who are out to climb the hill to God have no time to rest, to waste time with those subtle temptations which come to all when they have accomplished much. Then, more than ever, it is necessary to be on your guard. But if you seek, however ineffectually it seems to you, to keep in touch with the Christ, your Saviour and Redeemer, nothing shall be strong enough to touch you; to intervene. Then, in the measure that you have remained firm, so will the freedom come; that wonderful emancipation of the soul from self, that emancipation which lifts you up above care, above sorrow and above the power of the shadows and keeps you tied and linked with the Christ.

Go forward in your life with these words ringing ever and ever again; Come up hither and know the truth; the truth which is of the Spirit and which only your spiritual self, cleansed and purified, can contact with.

Purity of purpose and of aim, wishing to do the best you can and leaving that which failed to come up to the best hands of your Saviour; the Man of Sorrows acquainted with grief, and beset by the greatest forces of temptation; knowing, understanding, suffering under them. Leave that side to the Christ and ask that He will finish what you have begun. In God's Name you shall find hereafter not only communion with Him but you shall look back and see that that unity during the earth stage was as perfect as could be; perfect on His side and as near the ideal on yours as is possible while in the body.

That joy shall be yours and what it builds up for the life to come, the only life that matters, that you have no words for, nor to express the overwhelming Love of God.

There are many anxious times to come. Do what you can to prepare for the stony road ahead. God’s children can do this with perfect willingness, knowing that His ways are best.

These are very full days and although the spirit is willing, time flies and the day is all too short to get the work done. The dawn has come and with that dawn there is to be demonstrated to the faithful the fulfilment of promises, to the sceptical that God is above all, and to the careless that the day of reckoning is at hand. You must not confuse these things in your mind. The day of reckoning comes to all; they have to reckon with the God within, and there is no judge so pitiless of self, just as there is no critic so scathing as one's own sensitiveness.

Although to you many seem impossible to reach, so closed in are they by self, by that indifference or complacency which is a law to itself, you should wait. For there is that which shall be strong enough to break through that crust and, in a measure, give release to the spirit within. Therefore, misgivings and all those many phases of doubt should be dismissed for ever; banished! You should turn from them as from evil itself, for what is not accomplished while in the body shall be once you pass into Spirit. Once the body is laid aside the few thoughts that you were able to pass on shall be the seed from which the full corn shall appear, and these are the thoughts that shall bring that freedom from self which nothing else could do.

Hope is not something which has to be built up from nothing. The Spirits are not allowed to use words such as these in careless inconsequence. Everyone is weighed and is brought into harmony with that which is in the Divine Mind. The Hope you have to go forward with is that of expectations to be realised.

Do not be dismayed if here and there you seem to have failed. The people who are not ready, who have a few more lessons to learn, should not be discouraged. Instead turn back again to the Hope which is that of expectation fulfilled, not the hope which is but the edge of despair. With that you and the Spirits have nothing in common. You know that with the Christ in command things cannot go wrong! Although the world and the forces of evil may be directed against your efforts, the power is there and in time to come the spirit will find its right channel of use, and pouring itself through that channel shall reach even those who are on the outskirts of spiritual knowledge, slowly blending them in with the rest. For that is the way God works. Only do your part. Be on your guard against those subtle temptations and remember there is protection and guidance over even the trivial things of daily life; guidance, direction, and protection are there intact and will be for ever more.

Peace be with you. The Christ said “My peace I bring you, I leave with you and I give to you for ever and ever” The Promise is here, may the God in you rise to meet it!

This message was first given in 1924 through Winifred Moyes.

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