If This Were To Fail I Will Not Incarnate Again
Uranda
September 12, 1946 (2:30 p.m.) Summer Session
Sometimes I wonder how many have even started to
touch the Spirit of our Master's meaning in His parable of the ninety and nine.
The ninety and nine were safe in the Fold but there was one on the
mountainside. There was one not in the Fold and the Good Shepherd went out into
the darkness of the night, went out into the teeth of the storm, across the
deep ravines, regardless of the brambles that tore, regardless of the cold,
regardless of the jagged rocks, regardless of the fact that there was no path;
for human beings had forgotten that there was a Way between the wild wilderness
and the Fold, but He made a path, and the portrayal of the parable pictures the
Good Shepherd returning with the sheep that had strayed. Back from the wilds,
back across the ravines, over the jagged rocks, through the brambles, back
through the storm, over his shoulder He carried His sheep, safely into the Fold
to rest with the ninety and nine. He came back with the sheep.
If I observe correctly, the world has not yet been
saved; the storm still blows, the brambles and the jagged rocks are still there
and the wayward sheep is still far from the Fold. This world is that sheep that
has strayed; this world has not yet been saved. Unless we, or someone else,
lets the Christ Body be made manifest, so that the job may be finished, how can
that parable be fulfilled?
The Master, insofar as this world is concerned,
through His Body on earth, through those who turn to Him, is still out in the
storm. The Good Shepherd is still out there in the wilds of the mountainside
because that sheep is not yet back in the Fold. Unless there are those who do
let the work be finished, of what avail is that which He said and did, of what
avail the scourging crown of thorns, of what avail the agonies of Gethsemane of
what avail the enduring of the Cross, of what avail the Victory over death and
the coming forth from the Tomb, if He cannot bring His sheep back with Him? Of
what avail shall all that be if the sheep perish and goes into oblivion in the
wilds of the mountains and the storm? Humanity has come too close to the day of
oblivion already, and knows it not. If there is to be fulfillment, it must be
soon. If there is to be fulfillment by reason of my Ministry, it must be
through you and through those who work with you in this Ministry; for only as
this that is established does succeed can you or any other of the children of
men have the privilege of my presence with you in this outer world.
If this were to fail, I will not incarnate again.
Not because I would refuse to do so, but because it would not do any good. This
is humanity's third great opportunity as it is known by man, and I can conceive
of no greater joy than to be a part of the Good Shepherd who brings the sheep
back into the Fold, that that parable may be fulfilled in absolute Reality, but
we must let God do the works; we must so love Him that He can finish the work,
for He is a finisher of things, regardless of human beings.
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