No Sparrow Falls to the Ground Without the Knowledge of its Creator

Try and blend your view point a little more with God’s. Companionship over everything is essential; it is dreary work going on alone whatever path you may have chosen to follow.

From your point of view things have not worked out quite as you anticipated. It is custom to face truth in all its aspects in a perfectly frank manner. Evasions and the Spirit have nothing in common as you will find more and more as the days go on.

Some of God’s children, perhaps even all of them, have had heartaches over this and that; and at the present moment they are feeling rather as though the storms of life had buffeted them a little too freely. They ask themselves, and God, as to the cause of it and why the peace promised for so long is not their own possession.

In reality, there is no explanation to give. The fact of the matter is that nothing has gone wrong and nothing is changed. Everything is according to programme and the pattern is being worked out exactly in the way God intended. It is not easy for you to take that as a feasible or as an adequate explanation, yet a short time hence you will find that you were wrong; and you won't mind that at all!

You are so often distracted by those quick moving pictures which are thrown on to the screen of your physical mind by the shadows. Again and again you forget that all the incidents, the catastrophes and the minor and major tragedies take place solely in your imagination. You are so absorbed in what the shadows present that you forget that you are, as it were, inside a building watching a mechanical contrivance and losing your own individuality in the one whose career and whose adventures you are watching. It is nothing more than that! Some know that it is quite easy to "lose yourself" in this way, and yet in a very short space of time you come out again into that pure, clear air which God provides for all His children in equality. The scene is quickly changed. The next distraction before you reach your home, for the time being, blocks out those intense feelings which you have experienced in so vivid a manner.

Can you not see from this little illustration what has been happening? You have been shutting yourself away into that dark and airless building of self-deception, and you have been listening to and watching something which has been put together by the shadows; put together even as the toy tragedies which are presented by those whose lives are entirely different, for the amusement of the passer-by.

There are very few who during their earthly experience do not put themselves through this self-torture over and over again. It is self-torture because it is a travesty of what is really happening, but do not read into that a lack of sympathy for those pains of suffering which are part and parcel of the show.

Those who are free, that is a glorious word and almost too much for some, do not underestimate the wonderful advantage and privilege which is theirs. They are free in the sense that they can now see the mechanism of those actions of the shadows, and once having seen this, no amount of effort or of cleverness would ever make them believe in the reality of what they seek to represent.

Again you get your parallel. Those who are in front of the stage are often amazed at the beauty of the scenery or at the terrible desolation which the same stage is able to depict in so realistic a manner. On the one hand they are full of admiration and, again, the impression of the horror-side lingers in their mind long after they have left the scene.

Yet what happens when you see how it has all been put together. The beauty of the foliage is shown to be but make-believe, the flowers are hideous travesties of God's handiwork, the fields, the sky; all this, when under close inspection, seems crude and inferior to the critical mind of the looker-on.

Then, of course, the same applies to the scenes of desolation and of horror. It is very trivial when viewed at close quarters; it is all pretending to be what it is not and instead of dismay, laughter takes its place; ridicule has killed the power of fear!

Let this little simile take a firm hold on your physical mind. Remember that it is no exaggeration; on the contrary, it is but a poor illustration of what has been taking place. The shadows at will are able to create a counterfeit of beauty as well as a counterfeit of evil and disaster.

Take it from where it comes, and turn back to your God who has said: "Follow me into the Land of Promise!"

Those who are in the Spirit are so certain of the Master! The trust is so complete because they have seen and they know. Do not forget that you have not yet seen and yet are asked, in His Name, to believe. The contrast is great, as is evident to all, and yet it should not be too hard to undertake. It is an undertaking; it is not merely saying to yourself that you will believe and the trust is there, because at the back of your mind you know that that is not quite accurate. It always comes back to the wish that you could believe and the want to look up to God as your Father!

In some cases because it was only the second best shall hereafter the best itself be found in your own possession.

It is increasingly difficult to carry this thought with you regarding the enormous capacity of your Saviour for looking after the small things as well as the important ones in the lives of all His children. It seems to the physical mind so often that the multitude upon the face of the earth prevents the possibility of God looking after His own and those, who as yet, do not realise that they belong to Him. To the finite mind it is indeed utterly inconceivable that it should be worked out in actual, literal fact; that not one sparrow falls to the ground which is not noted and cared for by your Lord.

Here is a point which is not emphasised sufficiently. In the world there is much sacrifice of life one way and another, and it often seems most needlessly. It is done to satisfy a whim of humanity or is the result of their careless indifference. People whose sympathies are quickly touched are horrified again and again at the needless massacre of the helpless, which have been entrusted to the care of the children of the earth.

It is no use dwelling on this sad aspect of life because as yet there is still that savage instinct in mankind which has to work itself out in this way. In time to come those who so acted will suffer, suffer intensely because they so blocked out the God within.

You are told in your Bible that no sparrow falls to the ground without the knowledge of its Creator, but you are not told in the same definite way that not one bird or animal or even the tiniest insect that suffers, needlessly or necessarily, is not soothed and comforted by God. "Comforted" is a strange word to use to your mind but the animal, as it dies in physical agony, is comforted by the Saviour! There can be no misunderstanding on this subject. You have been told already that every pain endured throughout creation is borne in three parts by God and so it should not be an effort for you to understand that the tiniest animal killed, in play or intentionally, by a larger one is soothed and comforted by Him who is the King of Kings and the Lord of all!

God is so mighty, so stupendously powerful, and so unthinkingly holy! Yet only because He is all this is He able to enter into the pains and the lives of the most insignificant of His creation. It takes a big mind, a very big mind indeed, to understand in entirety the workings of the most limited in this respect. God is so mighty, so stupendously powerful, and so unthinkingly holy! Yet only because He is all this is He able to enter into the pains and the lives of the most insignificant of His creation. It takes a big mind, a very big mind indeed, to understand in entirety the workings of the most limited in this respect.

There is a lot the Spirits could tell you on the scientific side but they must wait a little until God’s children have more confidence in themselves. The Spirits are hampered by that lack of confidence in a way that no one has appreciated. In discussing questions which they consider are so entirely beyond their own mental range, unconsciously they hinder the Spirits a great deal by their dread of getting on to unfamiliar ground. It is well sometimes that this feeling should be there. There have been instruments who have rather recklessly thrown themselves across bridges which they had not first seen were sufficiently secure, and much damage was done to the cause they loved as well as to their own progress. You see you have to find the happy middle in all things, and not complain in any sense in regard to this most natural nervousness in regard to the unknown. The Spirits shall work through in their own way and because of the waiting the results will be far better than if you had pushed on regardless of temperament or of pitfalls.

There is a far greater radiance than you could imagine, and although it seemed to you in starting that sadness had crept rather close even that was only another trick of the enemy. Around you is brightness reflected from the realms of the Spirit; and brightness and sadness have nothing at all in common.

You must not allow that physical mind of yours to lay down hard and fast rules as to how the promises are going to be worked out. Do not hamper the Spirits by allowing yourself to be driven by the physical mind.

The responsible ones of a regiment meet together to discuss the days, or the night's affairs. They don't meet always with elation. Warfare does not bring out that feeling very often, but if the day has been a trying one, when they meet there is always that feeling which counts a lot. The day has been got through with as little damage as possible, and with trust and confidence in each other they gather together to talk over, not only what has been, but to discuss the next move and the best thing to be done on the morrow.

During those times of trial great friendships are made. The real humanity is shown; the courtesy of the heart, or the lack of it, is there for all to see. The manners of the world are laid aside for there is stern work to do and no time can be wasted on non-essentials.

So meet together in this spirit, knowing each other well, wonderfully well, and with renewed friendship and trust in your heart. For the time being let God take the position of the General; the one who leads, the one who wants to direct the party into security as soon as possible.

But you will understand that retreat in no way represents security but rather presents the greatest danger of all. At the first hint that one side is giving the enemy gets renewed courage and doubles their resources. So as a General who feels His responsibility, God tells you to dig yourself in! That phrase is very familiar to you now; it implies at once that there is no giving up of the advantage once secured; secured by so much effort, patience and suffering.

Again and again in physical life you get your illustrations of what is going on in the Spirit. Those spiritual battles are very wearing indeed. It is even as with the one in the trenches, all they know is that the enemy is facing them, waiting to take advantage of their lack of watchfulness, of their absence from the post of duty. The two are ruled out at once as quite impossible. They are densely ignorant, and over and over again they exclaim to themselves; if only they know what was going on how much easier it would be!

God understands that that is an added disadvantage which has to be grappled with, and yet it is the person's own safeguard. With the finite mind a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. For instance, if you were told how the position stood at this moment you would, quite unconsciously, do all sorts of destructive things which the Spirits should have to reconstruct again, and it would not be an easy matter. The physical mind is able only to take in a certain amount of rough outline, but the rough outline is not the part that really counts. It is that mass of intricate detail which lies inside the clear outline and it is a very delicate thing to meddle with. It has been constructed by the greatest Mind of all which finds no difficulty in thinking of a million things at once.

It is better that you should hand over your life into the care of the One who understands everything, Who is not distracted by this or by that, Who is concentrating on the one great thing, the greatest thing of all; the raising up of humanity and the freedom of the individual soul from self! It is far better to leave these things to the Infinite Mind because you know that the Infinite Mind represents Infinite Love as well. It should not be too hard for you have been trained this far to lay your life before Him and to say with your heart and your mind: "Do with me what Thou wilt; in Thy Hands I am safe from all adversity!"

Try and help the Spirits as much as you can. The pace has been almost too great of late and there has been damage done to the happiness side which is considerable, even from the Spirit’s point of view. It is easier to knock down than to build up, but in time to come they are going to keep those bricks of joy together by that holdfast which only certainty in God's Love can provide.

God could not be happy while His children are grieving. When His children are unhappy then unhappiness finds expression in His heart in a way which you would be glad is impossible for you to understand. But when they are a little happier then He is happier too. There is a lot of responsibility placed upon you and all.

So meet on the lines of perfect understanding, perfect unity, and not only with the promise of happiness to come but with happiness in your midst. It is so in every truth. When the Dawn comes, it is not that the day which was hurrying on in its steps was going to be subject to an eclipse of the sun. That's how you have taken it, but that's not God's idea of day and certainly is directly opposed to His Perfect Day!

In the physical world these things happen occasionally; the sun shines out boldly and with confidence, but slowly and surely a dense body moves between you and your fount of light, or so it seems to you, and a strange, unnatural darkness descends upon the day.

You all know a lot about those eclipses during your earthly life. It is one of the favourite moves of the shadows because it is a direct blow at the Sun of God's Love which is there to shine upon His children in unrestricted power and glory.

The circumstances of life, the attacks upon the strength of the body, all is used for the one important purpose; to bring about the unnatural darkness and to prove that day is night instead!

When you think things over with your loved ones, and certainly your most loving companion, it all seems very simple, even if there is rather a terrible note of memory which runs alongside of it. It is only when you are facing the facts alone that you lose your sense of proportion. Even as the ignorant on earth today think that the blocking out of the sun for a short space of time heralds the end of the world, so do you think that the passing shadow means goodbye to happiness forever so far as physical life is concerned.

Remember that the day will break and the shadows fly away at any moment when you can find within yourself that real earnest desire to contact with your Maker. It is not easy, but even the first try brings you into better conditions at once. Later on instinctively you will turn to the Christ as the most natural thing to do when the first tiny shade overcasts the sun which is shining on your life now and always.

Remember, try to remember next time that these experiences are nothing more than an eclipse of the sun, which means that for a tiny period out of the long existence of your Spirit something has forced itself between you and your Creator. Even as you recognise the fact the shade will pass and it will be day again; day with its blue skies, its many beauties, its safety and its companionship. It is the day-time of the Spirit, and as that Spirit grows, so more and more will it be able to lengthen that daytime until at last night will be no more.

Into God's perfect day, which means perfect understanding, perfect unity and perfect Love for ever and ever! God bless you and all and keep you in the brightness of His Face!

This message was first given in 1924 through Winifred Moyes.

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