There are tasks to which you must now set your hands to
prepare for the achievements of tomorrow. Do not permit the problems in your
way to dismay you or deflect you from your goals; it is to overcome the
problems of humankind that the Bahá’í community has been brought into being.
Your vital task is to immerse yourselves in the study of the Teachings of
Bahá’u’lláh, to enrich your spiritual lives and to discover thereby the best
direction for your endeavors, to express them in your actions, and to convey
them to those who thirst for guidance. You are the instruments of the purpose
of God, the channels of His grace, the bearers of His Message, the holders of
the key to the challenges of the age. Follow His guidance and the successes you
will achieve will be an inspiration to your fellow-believers and the quickener
of hope in the hearts of the people.
Be assured that as you arise for the promotion of His Cause,
the confirmations of Bahá’u’lláh will surround you, and you will witness the
truth of these exalted words uttered by Him in His Most Great Prison:
Verily, We behold you from Our realm of Glory, and shall aid
whosoever will arise for the triumph of Our Cause with the hosts of the
Concourse on high and a company of Our favored angels.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 21
November 1990 addressed to the ‘Friends gathered at the Moscow Conference’; ‘Messages
from the Universal House of Justice 1986-2001’)
