The Story of the Man and the Ox.

"Don't get old!"

An Excerpt from FATHER DIVINE'S Message Given at 152-160 W. 126th St., N.Y.C., N.Y., June 23-24, 1940 A.D.F.D.



The Mount of the House of the Lord

The Mount of the House of the Lord

 

 

"So then, I thought I would drop these thoughts for consideration, for there was told a story once which is said to be true. There was a man who used to carry a great big, thousand-pound ox around; said he was a very small man too and he was not so very strong, not more than an ordinary man of his size would be. And they questioned how could he carry that ox so easily! He said, 'Well, I have been carrying him once or twice a day from the time he was born, I never knew the difference when he was grown.'

"Train a child in the way he should go; when he is old he will not depart from it! And the thing that you can do and are doing, if you do it effectively continually, daily, you will not know the difference~~matters not how great it grows and how great it may be, you can do it as easy as you did in the beginning! These thoughts are well worth considering.

"I hope you all will consider them and put them into practice and cause yourselves to know, you must use your five physical senses and your five mental senses combined and allow them to work constructively for you daily and you will never know the difference.

The Same with Growing Old

"As I have often said, if you practice anything and keep it up daily, continually, you would never know the difference. In the same like manner about getting old: you will never think about getting old, unless you think about how old you are; but if you think about how old you are, why then you begin to think about getting old. Therefore if you cancellate and dispel the thought of how old you are and how old you were, you will not get older unless you can think it; but if you think it and begin to stress it in your memory, you will get older according to what you think about it and you will feel the same, if you will allow yourself to! But work cancellation on that version of thinking how old you were, how old you are and how old you will be at a certain time!

"You will get there before you are there and you will be old before you are old! So it is with each and everything else that is negative and undesirable, you can produce it and bring it to fruition in your experience, if you will allow yourself to, but if you are true and faithful and will not deviate nor digress in words and in thoughts, from the Fundamental, MY Spirit will lead you and give you victory and will keep you as you think you are.

"I just thought I would drop these few thoughts for your consideration, for the spirit of analyzation and the spirit of X-raying conditions and circumstances and the causes and the effects and the difficulties, I will show you both it and them as plainly as the unfoldment of MY Mystery reveals them. I thank you! I thank you! I thank you!"