The Inner Life 1934
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE
fear about anything—only a childlike faith that if one does his part, God will always do His.
We tell you all this in order to prepare you should greater tribulations come, when it may be that you will be tested and tried to the limit of your endurance, and you may be tempted to lose all faith in God. Things may happen in the world—all of them the results of men’s folly and ignorance of the Law—which may make you question if God has forsaken humanity. Then is when you can fall back upon these truths and can calmly and humbly rest in the positive assurance that God and all His host of Angels are back of and watching everything, knowing in advance all that takes place, sitting at every meeting of the enemy, both those in the flesh and those in spirit, and wisely permitting the Law to work and man to reap the results of his own folly. Then when disaster befalls and the world crashes around your head and you have nowhere else to turn, you may listen to God and see how He will protect you and lead you to safety—those of you who are left and are chastened enough and now see the results of your past wilfulness and sins.
We say to you that everything that is happening to you and to the world is good—is best for humanity’s spiritual growth and development; else God would not permit it. Also that it has all been planned from the beginning, and that it is in the following of this Divine Plan only that humanity will attain its final freedom and come into the glorious destiny that awaits.
Do you realize the great significance of this? If you do, then you will stand aside in perfect confidence and trust in the good outcome, thus linking your mind with the One Mind and opening yourself wide for the Divine Law to
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