from
Meeting My King
Uranda August
14, 1953 Class
In this hour, if you
will, I should like very much to give you an opportunity to have a deeper
knowing, a clearer vision, of my King. I have presented you before Him, and
according to your response He has received you; and now I would let you know
something more about Him.
I have served our King
for many, many thousands of years and more. I have served with Him, in the
particular capacity which I have at the present moment in His court, since long
before the beginning of the creation of this earth. He was gracious enough, and
kind enough, to grant me the privilege of serving in a responsible position in
His court, long, long ago. There is no need for the mind to speculate as to
what the pattern was before that. You could not comprehend it, in any case. But
some of you have sometimes wondered, perhaps marveled a little, at my personal
attitude in relationship to my King. Every sort of human pressure in
circumstance and in loss has been brought to bear to make me, or try to make
me, violate my agreement with Him. When I talk to you about creation I may be
using Biblical texts to help you to understand, but I was there. I remember it
and know it as you remember the things of yesterday. And I came into the world
at this time to offer assistance to any man or any woman, anywhere, of any race
or color or creed, who might be inspired to want to know and serve my King.
Yes, to know Him is to
love Him, and to love Him is to begin to know Him. But the human mind tends to
run into certain patterns of limitation in consciousness, in concept, idea. If
you try to picture Him as you would a man, the vision will fall short, and yet
we saw Him on earth a little while ago as a man, and in our hours of
togetherness we have meditated often and much upon the words He spoke, upon the
life He lived, the things He did. We can see Him to some degree as He was made
manifest in the form of a man, and the life He lived engendered a very great
love response in the world, and even though it be on a distorted pattern, the
influence of His presence on earth is extended into all countries, all places.
And to some degree there is love for Him, but all too often it is love that is
easily forgotten under the pressure of the circumstance of some moment in life,
something that for the moment is crowded out of consciousness, and the
individual may in such a circumstance speak or act without regard to that love,
without regard for the King. But as we learn to truly love Him we find that
there is nothing that can make us forget. No pressure of circumstance, no pain,
no sorrow, no loss that can come to man on earth, can make us forget, not even
for a moment.
There is one thing to
remember: One cannot live and move and have his being on the basis of a citizen
of a kingdom unless one is keenly conscious of the king. If you are a citizen
of a kingdom and you are not conscious of the king of the kingdom, having love,
loyalty—not just admiration, not just respect, but deep devotion—you cannot
possibly function in relationship to a kingdom; for there is no kingdom without
a king. And the meaningfulness of a kingdom depends upon the king, and if there
be no awareness of the king there is no awareness of the kingdom. Our concern
in this hour is that there should be, now and forevermore, an awareness of the
King of the kingdom.
It is not that I would
attempt to describe Him to you. I could describe perhaps, in limited words, the
manner of His appearance when He walked among men nearly two thousand years
ago. Some of the pictures give some little idea, but none of them are true.
They are the imaginations of human beings. But He carried not a pompousness but
a simple dignity which portrayed, for those eyes which could see, a true
greatness. He never acted, even when man was rejecting Him, as if He was less
than Himself. He had no need to try to exaggerate the appearance of Himself,
but He never depreciated it: His bearing—not as of a king according to the
concepts of men, but always the King as revealed from the standpoint of
heavenly things—a ruggedness, a gentleness; unassuming but powerful. I have
seen strong men wilt before a single glance of His eye, and I have seen those
who seemed to be weak thrill and be uplifted by a look. I have seen patterns of
attunement established in a few seconds, in an instant it might seem, whereby
one word in form meant more than could ever be spoken in words—by reason of the
spirit of the word, by what was conveyed in just a word or two.
So often human beings
are inclined to try to analyze the words He spoke according to the record on
the basis of simply thinking of them as words that any man might have spoken,
just as one might read a story; but it does not work. The words have meaning as
one finds attunement with His spirit, and then one begins to have a feeling as
if the words were almost unnecessary; just a gentle, gracious touch to make it
easier for finite human minds to grasp.
He was not concerned
about trying to be a king of some little earthly kingdom—He was KING of
Kings and His kingdom included all the kingdoms of this world. Sometimes human ideas
have pictured somehow that He had a whole host of angels and faithful saints
and one thing and another trailing around behind Him in heaven, and everywhere
He went in heaven He would be followed by this vast host of angels and saints,
all shouting continually some sort of praise or the idea of glory. I can think
of nothing that would tend to turn heaven into hell for Him more quickly than
that. It is developed out of a misunderstanding, a misinterpretation of
something, it is true.
Follow Him, follow
His lead, follow out the vibrational pattern; but not a physical following, to
be crowding around Him every minute, as if He just could not be left by
Himself. Well probably He is not too much by Himself, but following Him in that
heavenly sense does not mean just tagging along like a puppy dog, just to be
physically there. It means functioning in their place in the pattern of the
kingdom, so that if the cycle be initiated through Him, if something is opening
up, then they are with Him, they follow His lead whithersoever He goeth; which
is to say, in the cycles of the unfolding of time, in the determination of the
patterns of creation in the processes of living. The coordination, the harmony,
is being pictured, not of a vast group of saints or angels hovering about and
trying to crowd in close. No,
no crowding; no need of it; no pushing, no shoving—to follow Him as the King
because He is the King.
And how did He become
the King? Oh I could tell you something about it, but not too much of it can be
put into human words. But I will tell you this. He became the King for two
reasons. We all wanted Him to be the King, and His King, His point of
focalization in Deity on beyond, selected Him—not just arbitrarily, but He
selected Him; for He in turn has a King, you know. In any case, from above and
from below He was selected. Why? Because we all loved Him. Because it was His
right and His place. From that standpoint we might say that it is completely
autocratic—completely autocratic. He is there, and from the standpoint of those
who know Him there is never any question about wishing someone else could be
King for a while. Why? Because He fits; because it is a perfect place for Him.
The vastness of His
love, the wonder of His patience, all of the things that enter into it—I cannot
begin to describe them all. But He is a KING of Kings. Those who serve with Him
never wonder, "Now do you suppose that He'll back me up, that He'll help
me see this through, meet this situation?" There is stability. We never
think, "Perhaps the King will have some vagrant fancy this morning and
turn things upside down." No, we can depend upon Him, and He acts as if He
can depend upon them. It is a good feeling. If we can depend upon Him, then He
should be able to depend upon us; and if we are ever to know how true it is
that we can depend upon Him we must reach a point where He can depend upon us,
and make it stick. We never wonder if He will have power enough to do what
needs to be done, if He will be patient enough, or if He will love enough.
Those who serve with Him and are aware of Him know that He has the power; there
is no question but what it is His kingdom. They know the power is there. They
do not go forth from His court wondering, "Now do you suppose it can be
done?"
If He gives a
commission, as He has given one to me, for instance, it never occurs to me to
waste any time wondering, "Do you suppose it can be done?" If the
King said to do it, well then we just do it. That is all. And no ifs, maybes
about it. We just do it. How? Well then, that is our business; it is my
business. Do you think He tells me every turn to make? No, if He gives a
commission it is given, and then, in this instance, it is my business—it is my
business, a commission, a job to do. We would not have a commission unless it
could be done. His commands are simple, His expectations just. Disobey? What
would that be, to disappoint Him? Well, for myself, I would rather cease to be
for the rest of eternity than to disappoint Him. No. If we know Him there isn't
anything that we would rather do than what He wants us to.
Once we begin to be
citizens of the kingdom, servants of the King, there is just one thing. We have
found that the greatest pleasure that we can know, the deepest satisfaction,
the highest ecstasy, the greatest fulfilment, comes as we serve with Him—not
against Him. And if you think He doesn't give us plenty of chance to exercise
all of our capacities and to prove ourselves as individuals you are very wrong.
No, He doesn't try to think for us, He doesn't try to act for us. He gives us a
chance to be and to do, if we are ready—if we are ready.
When there was war in
heaven and man's consciousness was cast out of heaven here on earth, I had
something to do with it. And my King did not have to fight, He did not have to
raise a hand, He did not have to brandish a sword. He did not even have to say,
"Get out of here," to the dragon and his angels. It was all done for
Him, absolutely. He did not have to turn a hand over. He doesn't have to fight,
He doesn't have to contend. And in fact He does not—He is that kind of a king.
You can let yourself be
changed and begin to enjoy His kingdom. And it is a wonderful place and He is a
wonderful king. I cannot tell you what a wonderful king He is. If you stop
fighting with Him and begin to work with Him, after enough time in the cycles
of eternity has gone by, you will begin to know. And I thank God for the privilege
of serving Him by serving you who turn toward Him.
So let us serve
together. As we truly serve together here on earth, serving our Lord and King
no matter what the limitations, no matter what seems to be against us, we know
that it will be done. We can afford to wait. Of course we have plenty to do,
but it doesn't have to be just so today. We can wait. You cannot rush heaven
and you cannot rush my King. It will not work. But there are plenty of things
waiting to be received by you, and by all who will become worthy, dependable,
loyal citizens of His kingdom.
© emissaries of divine light
