January 11. On this date on 1971, the Universal House of Justice addressed a letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany stating "Bahá’u’lláh is able to open doors and change conditions in ways far beyond our understanding...power of Bahá’u’lláh to reinforce the efforts of those who serve Him, of His promise to do so, and of the impotence of all our deeds without this divine assistance...constant consciousness of dependence upon Him...their awareness of His ever-present care and their reliance upon Him in every aspect of their lives."

 

January 11. On this date on 1971, the Universal House of Justice addressed a letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany stating "Bahá’u’lláh is able to open doors and change conditions in ways far beyond our understanding...power of Bahá’u’lláh to reinforce the efforts of those who serve Him, of His promise to do so, and of the impotence of all our deeds without this divine assistance...constant consciousness of dependence upon Him...their awareness of His ever-present care and their reliance upon Him in every aspect of their lives."

The progress of the Cause depends upon many factors. . . It is . . . to those factors that are directly the result of the actions of the Bahá’ís that we wish to direct our remarks, because if the Bahá’ís will but do their part—however unpromising the prospect—Bahá’u’lláh is able to open doors and change conditions in ways far beyond our understanding.

The first [factor] is a greater realization of the power of Bahá’u’lláh to reinforce the efforts of those who serve Him, of His promise to do so, and of the impotence of all our deeds without this divine assistance. Any evaluation of a situation is entirely misleading if it does not take this supreme power into consideration; whereas constant consciousness of dependence upon Him enables the Bahá’ís to formulate audacious plans and confidently carry them through to completion in the face of seemingly insuperable obstacles.

Armed with this consciousness, the believers should then approach the winning of the goals of the Nine Year Plan with the spirit that will achieve them. This Plan is a stage in the unfoldment of the Divine Plan of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. The achievement of its goals is of the utmost urgency and importance because the followers of Bahá’u’lláh are engaged in a race against time. Mankind is being engulfed in the ruin precipitated by its own folly; the longer we Bahá’ís delay in achieving the tasks that God lays before us, the greater is the suffering of our fellow men. . . The believers should consider the goals, recognize that they are intended to be won, decide what is needed to win them, and then, however hopeless the prospect may seem, set out determinedly to do whatever is needed, confident that Bahá’u’lláh will reinforce them with His Hosts and will open the doors of victory before them.

These . . . points are closely interlinked, for it is reliance upon Bahá’u’lláh that will enable the friends to pioneer, it is the awareness of the imperative nature of the goals that will inspire them to do so and will guide them to choose their posts, and it is their sacrifice in arising to leave their homes that will call down upon them the divine confirmations and will, through living experience, deepen their love for God, their awareness of His ever-present care and their reliance upon Him in every aspect of their lives.