One Eternal Day Of Thanksgiving And One Eternal Independence Day.
Palace Mission Church, Pinebrook, NJ
July 5th, 1954, 1:20 a.m.
One Eternal Day of Thanksgiving…
Father Divine
The Wind, Sun And Air
GOD is the same even as the wind is, even as nature is itself.
Now you may not get much sunlight in some houses or in some homes, you may not get very much air. If you get air it may be stagnant air, because you may have the ventilation in connection with some other connection that is stagnating the air of expression before it enters the room in which you are connected. That is the mystery.
So these thoughts are well worth considering. GOD is the same with or without a Person. His Condescension may cause such an expression in different persons and personalities to be reflected as if though HE is Personal, but GOD is impersonal with or without a Person. GOD is the same today, yesterday and forever.
The wind is pure and holy. If there are germs in it and if there are not any germs in the atmosphere in which you are living, the air is pure and holy – – It is absolutely pure and holy. It may be infected apparently by the germs of disease and other contagious germs; nevertheless, it does not say that the air isn’t pure. Matters not how filthy it may be, if you allow it run free it will cleanse itself after a little running.
The Wheat, Tares And Chaff
The wheat and the tares did grow together, but this is the day of resurrection. I AM separating! I AM separating the wheat from the tares. I AM gathering the good wheat in the garner – – the chaff I AM leaving on the outside, and the chaff shall burn with fire unquenchable, but the tares shall be burned within the field, they shall not come to the barnyard. Now is not that wonderful?
We will not even gather the tares in the barnyard. The chaff we will gather with the wheat, and we will leave it on the outside of the corn-mill. But the tares we will not bring to the barnyard. Therefore, I will not gather the harvest of the tares. I will leave them in the field to burn, but the good wheat shall be gathered in the garner and the chaff shall be burned in the barnyard with fire unquenchable.
The Jockeys And The Cowboys
If men live upon the face of the earth, those who live and walk around here with GOD’S breath shall obey GOD – -and they shall hear MY voice. Aren’t you glad! This is not a supposition, it is a declaration of the Infinite Spirit and the Omnipotence (of GOD). It is a declaration of the Universal Mind Substance in which and of which you know is speaking.
As I mentioned the jockeys, as I mentioned the cowboys, they do not say to a wild horse, or a wild cow: “Can I harness you?” If a cowboy can do such a thing in the animal kingdom, what about GOD among the animalistic creation in the likeness of man, if you please! When GOD said, “Let there be light and there was light,” when GOD said, “Let dry land appear and dry land appeared, “ it was not a question – – only a request; as the question request was made, there it was, and dry land appeared.
I know these are hard sayings, but yet as I said about the jockeys and about the cowboys, if the cowboys can go in the wild forest and can catch and harness the wild horses and the wild cows, how about GOD harnessing the minds of the people, harnessing all of His creation and bringing them into subjection?
FATHER DIVINE
New Day 10/10/59; p9, c2
The Incubated Egg
It takes a radical chicken to come out of the shell. You will never come out of the shell until you learn to be radical and pick your way out – – cracking the shell of mortal limitation, and coming through all materialism and breaking the skin of materialism and freeing yourself clearly and completely before you can be free indeed. It takes radicalness. It takes fanaticism. It takes ignorance.
Just look at the eggs, the fresh eggs. If after the manner of men they could speak, they would be saying to the incubated egg: “You are foolish coming out of that shell, something will crush you to death, and you will be no good.”