Through To Victory
Uranda May 4, 1953 Class
It is a matter of holding steady, remaining true.
Remember if we do that, the LORD will find a way.
One of the things that we need to begin to truly realize is that wherever we turn in the LORD’s Service there are going to be barriers for some little time to come. There is no way of saying how long, and even if I knew I would not tell you, but there are going to be barriers, walls, difficulties, at best, and when it appears that there is a wall in front of you, perhaps you can begin to see it coming up, as it were, as you are drawing closer to it, learn to keep right on going, Learn to walk right up to the wall? No. If you walked up to the wall, how close would you get to the wall? A hundred yards, or ten yards, or six feet? You walk up close to the wall and stop a wait for the wall to vanish? It does not work that way. You learn to walk not up to the walls, you learn to walk right through them.
And if you think you cannot, you are wrong. You do not just stop when there is a wall over there; a wall of circumstance and vibrational factors. Of course, there are those elements of discretion and understanding with respect to maneuvering, which are essential, but as far as the walls are concerned, you do not just stop and camp by the wall. You keep right on going. and you find that when you get right up to it, pressing against it, it opens—or you find suddenly that it just looked like there was a wall. Anyone round about would have sworn there was a wall, and when you get up there close enough it begins to move back.
Did you ever chase the rainbow; try to catch up with it? It keeps getting away just as fast as you try to get to it. Of course, that is the rainbow, the rainbow of promise. But the principle is the same. The barriers give way and if we are working centered in God, properly responsive to the Divine and hold steady, the barriers give way. That is the—one of the lessons to be learned in the story of the happening after the Children of Israel began to move into the Promised Land.
You will remember there was a certain city where the walls fell down? Jericho. Whenever there are Jericho walls, they will fall if you function correctly. When we get to that we will study some of the basic principles that are involved that are of vital importance and interest. But remember that if you quit merely because you think you see a wall in front of you and you think, “Well I can't get over it. I know I can't climb over it. I cannot do anything. I will just have to quit and camp right here or else go back.” Do not be deluded. Keep right on going and the wall will open or prove to just be a mirage. Perhaps it is not even there. It just looks like it. Hold it steady and keep going. It is the only way to Victory.
