Physically you cannot tell GOD from man

GOD formed man, in other words, created man in His own likeness and image. Externally and from a visible point of view if you would have seen Jesus whom you declare to be GOD, even as you see ME, you would not or could not have told Him or tell Him from any other man from a physical, material point of view, but one is of the earth earthy among you, and the other is the Lord from Heaven.

There is just as much difference between GOD and man, though you cannot see the difference with your physical eye and you cannot tell the difference with your physical hands by feeling them, but there is just as much difference as there is in electricity and something that is just like water.

Fill one of those bulbs with plain water or any other matter-like expression, it would be quite a difference from that of the light that is in those bulbs, would it not? That is the difference. And there is just as much difference in GOD’S Body as it is in a bottle of water, or a jar of sand from the bulb that is filled with electricity, with a thousand watts of current in it. That is the difference. Though these electric bulbs are bottles.

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The bees in the hives, they go out and gather in the substance of all sorts of flowers – the sweet, the bitter, the sour, the good; the clean and the unclean they also gather in.

When the bees are finished with these, the different substances, they have drawn from both the clean and the unclean things, both the sweet and the sour things, both the good and the bad things, they make the sweetest thing in the world.

This is a type and a reflection as a sketch of the mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven. GOD is drawing from the minds of all of the people both the just and the unjust, the righteous and the unrighteous, the intelligent and the ignorant, the substances of something that is good that they might be represented in this great Kingdom for the establishment of the Kingdom of GOD on earth among men, just as the bees have been doing. Aren’t you glad! That is what it is all about!

Father Divine

New Day 3/17/38; p13,c2

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At this juncture, I wish to convey a story that was told as a parable concerning “Mine and Yours.” It is said to be a true story.

It is said, two men purchased a cow once. One claimed the head, the front part of the cow, and the other claimed the hind part of the cow. The one who claimed the hind part of the cow forced the man who claimed the front part of the cow to lead the cow around and feed the cow and graze the cow, and he would only come and milk the cow, and get the milk.

He said, “That is my part and I will not feed the hind part of the cow, for the hind part of the cow does not have to eat, so you will have to lead and feed and graze the cow from the front part and also give her water and everything like that.”

So the other fellow got tired of doing such, so he turned in and decided to get even with John, he said. So he killed his part; which was the front part, and the other man’s part died. This is a story as a fairy tale, but said to be true.

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How marvelous it is with those who recognize GOD’S Actual Presence, those who will let loose or let go whichever, of the shore line.

Don’t try to have strings tied on to GOD in your thoughts, nor in our mind, but launch out in the Ocean Divine where the full tides flow and let the shore line go. There is no red tape about GOD. Aren’t you glad! Let the shore line go, I say. Free GOD in your consciousness. But as sure as you try mentally to bind ME from any angle expressible in your conception, you are binding yourselves individually, and even binding yourselves collectively, causing yourselves to become to be spiritless even as you see ME to be by trying to bind GOD in your mortal concept and try to have some strings attached to ME.

Launch out in the Ocean Divine, out where the full tides flow. Let loose the shore line. Let it go and don’t try to attach the shore line any more, for the ship cannot go out where the full tides flow unless you let go the shore line. But as the vibrations were high this morning or this early afternoon, whichever, I thought how marvelous it is to let go and let GOD, to launch out in the Ocean Divine, to stay out in the channel of the Spirit where your thoughts are filled with Praise and Thanksgiving, for this is the hope of your redemption!

FATHER DIVINE

New Day l/20/38; p11,c1