April 16
As My tribulations multiplied, so did My love for God and
for His Cause increase, in such wise that all that befell Me from the hosts of the wayward was powerless to deter Me from My
purpose. Should they hide Me away in the depths of the earth, yet would they
find Me riding aloft on the clouds, and calling out unto God, the Lord of
strength and of might. I have offered Myself up in the way of God, and I yearn
after tribulations in My love for Him, and for the sake of His good pleasure.
Unto this bear witness the woes which now afflict Me, the like of which no
other man hath suffered. Every single hair of Mine head calleth out that which
the Burning Bush uttered on Sinai, and each vein of My body invoketh God and
saith: ‘O would I had been severed in Thy path, so that the world might be
quickened, and all its peoples be united!’ (Baha’u’llah, from a Tablet to Napoleon, ‘Epistle to the
Son of the Wolf’)
