Partial Faith

The conditions are rather mixed by the thoughts and the experiences which you have had and undergone during each day. Despite this, send out your sympathy towards God’s children and aid Him in the only way you can, so that He may be able to use the instruments placed in His hands for the progression of His Divine work.

There are among you your dear ones in such volume that you should be conscious of a great peace and happiness within. They are here because the need is great; they are here because the enemy has been pressing close, and they are here to assure you once again of the prevailing, overwhelming influence of the Father. So rest content! Believe if you can! But if you cannot at this moment separate yourself sufficiently from the world to believe unquestioningly then pray; pray that the eyes of the soul may give sight to the eyes of the body and that the mind of the spirit may illuminate that mind which at present, of necessity, is somewhat bound.

God understands your deepest, most hidden feelings. God understands all those thoughts which trouble and torture you by their vain questionings, both during the silent hours of night and in the light of day amid the work at hand. The Spirits also understand this well, very well indeed. You must remember that they too have gone through the physical stages. Where is the one with the mind who can say that they have been so firm in their faith that doubt has never been their companion?

You must remember that though the Spirits are now free and they see and they know there were times too when the sorrows of the physical world crushed them down! But only to raise them up in power and in illumination. You are under their care, you and many more, more than you could grasp. Because you have been given into their care by the Great Father, would it have been possible to place upon them, at once, this great responsibility and privilege if they failed to understand the things that matter most to you and to all?

Again and again the cry goes up to God for mercy! Mercy because the shadows have so blinded you that in your grief, in your terrible sorrows, it seems that you cry in vain to One who is deaf and mute. But the days go on and in time to come that which tore your nerves is covered over until a chance word or a rough hand tears open the wound once more; when almost with its original strength the pain surges up again and the memory refuses to be silenced.

Because you suffer in this way you shall reap that which now it would be impossible to present to your imagination. The way is hard and, to some, the gathering of faith to themselves is harder still and so the blow is doubled! Yet does that not explain something to you? Does your reasoning mind not cry out that there must be some explanation as to the reason for so much pain?

You have chosen to find God quickly; you have decided within yourself that it is better to suffer greatly for a short time and to gain the goal rather than to prolong and repeat that suffering when the body is laid aside. It must appeal to you as reasonable and as fitting in with your practical experience of daily life. The knife cuts deep, but when there is much to do isn't it better to get it over with quickly and be free?

Amongst you, in different ways, there is much hidden sorrow; sorrow which, to your mind, you think could have been avoided. All think that. It is the unnecessary, the apparently unnecessary, that tortures you the most. Yet gather in this thought, which is truth as it comes through the myriad spheres from the Throne of God. Not one pain hereafter shall not find its justification. You then, with the Spirits and with those you love so well, shall feel that God's ways are best!

Tackle once more that troublesome subject of faith and partial faith. It is not to be expected that you can get the thing intact in all its beauty, its power, its wide spreading influence. It is not to be expected that you can make this your own during the physical stages. But, hereafter, it shall be yours. Those who have suffered most through doubt, against their will, shall come back and, imbued with power from the Most High, shall again fight this most dangerous enemy for others and prevail!

Faith could carry you through, through the most tempestuous storm that you can imagine if it were only there! But it had to be fought for, it had to be earned; you cannot step into faith without giving out of yourself a very big return.

Those who come into physical life equipped with faith, and many do, if they have not made it their own individual and personal possession during the physical stages, hereafter have to work through the doubt of others in order to make that gift their own.

Make no mistake! Everything relating to the Spirit has to be worked for, prayed for and suffered for. But because it was wished and prayed and suffered for, God is able to pour down upon you the joy which is of Him!

That is just a simple little illustration in regard to faith which may help you. Picture to yourself your life as a balloon. Here and there it is driven at the mercy of the wind. You inside, so far as your own resources are concerned, are powerless to help yourself. Over the plains, the hills and the great wide sea it bears you; and often fear itself seems your only companion. You forget that God is over ruling all! Then a time comes when even that fails you, or so you think. Something has gone wrong, a great catastrophe has happened, and then, as so often has been the case with those hardy travellers, you are forced to throw yourself off, clinging only to what appears to all the most insecure support there could be!

Have you ever considered the faith required by anyone in order to come down from a great height dependent solely on a parachute? Visualise, if you can, that dropping over the side. Everything is in order so far as they can see; but there is always the question of whether it will open. Will the wind catch it in time to hold them up and, finally, bring them safely to the firm land beneath?

Over some of the incidents, those catastrophes in your life, it is even so. It seems to you that the most trivial thing imaginable lies between you and the destruction, not of the physical body, but of that most precious thing called "happiness". Something has happened and you are forced to take a certain step, to rely upon God. He does know that anguish of despair as you find yourself, as it were, falling from the most terrible heights into the depths beneath!

But where is faith? Despair is there, and desperation too!

Do not imagine that faith is anything so flimsy or so unreliable as that. With faith things are quite different. It is only the shadows that represent life in this most terrible guise. All the while, be the day calm or rough, the Christ walks beside you, protecting you and throwing off that which would approach. The mind may suffer, indeed in order to grow it must suffer, but picture to yourself the difference between that simile of faith and what is really taking place. You are not falling; there is no terrible gap between you and safety. You are held by the Christ! If now and again you feel you are stumbling, then still more the Christ is there to steady you, to encourage you and to lead you on.

Gather comfort in this if you can. Try more and more to say to yourself that blind though you may be blind, the Christ sees for you and with Him you are safe!

Until you can get this attitude of mind the suffering, the feeling of isolation and despair, will go on. But you are nearer to the end than you think. You have read many times, with reassurance, that no one is tempted beyond their strength. The sentence should read as this, that God will not allow anyone to be tempted by evil beyond their strength. That is a plain statement and no one would dare to refute it. You suffer, the shadows are pressing, but now and always the protection is complete because, as you know yourself, you emerge from the darkness into the light. That is but a simile of what so-called death represents; that final emerging from the twilight of earthly experience into the light of revelation, when Love surrounds you for ever and ever and joy is your natural environment, because you are living in God's eternal day!

Have sympathy and understanding and thoughts of power in order to receive that for which you long so much. God's Will shall be done. So meet a little in sadness, separate in joy and in peace!

When there is someone you love very much it is nice to know that not only do they love you, but that their thoughts are all around you.

God’s thoughts are indeed all around you in a way, of course, you couldn't understand. But get into that very happy way of regarding Him as someone who is not only overseeing your life, but who is very dependent upon you for His joy. Parenthood is only half, or less than half, of what it was meant to be; when most of the love is only on the one side. As with all love, there must be a counterpart, that which meets the other, if it is to bring any joy at all.

Remember that God is very dependent upon you for happiness, for real gladness. When He sees you happy and in sympathy with Him, then life, from all aspects, is just as beautiful as it could be.

Carry on your thinking a little further and remember that the Christ, your Saviour, your Companion, your Protector, is very much in the same position. He wants you to give what you can to Him!

The Love goes on all the same, whether you can find it in your heart to love Him or not. But there are many people who cannot take unless they give. It goes against the grain to take of that wonderful overwhelming, unlimited Love, which the Father showers upon His children, unless they make a real effort to give of themselves in return.

The blessing, which is of peace, of healing, of renewed faith and fresh courage, which is of the Holy Spirit rests on you and can be held close to you, if you only commend yourself to God forever and ever again.

This message was first given in 1924 through Winifred Moyes.

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