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0560 Warning against worldly pleasures....

August 28, 1938: Book 12

Behold, My child, far from the world only you can find Me.... I will never dwell where people pursue their earthly pleasures and these will always stand like a wall between Me and the children of earth. All the offerings of the world cannot replace what I can give you, and if you don't want to completely distance yourselves from them you will remain distant from Me in your heart. And thus you deprive yourselves of what is most precious to you, for you allow yourselves to be tempted and fall too easily into the snares of the world which, after all, is not and cannot be My true life.... And behold, you are in such danger.... you must pass every test, for I send them to you to test you.... The world does not offer you much, it is only apparent pleasures that do not last, but what you give is far more.... And so I earnestly admonish you not to allow yourself to be beguiled by such temptations of the world if you want to remain in My love.... and devote yourself all the more diligently to your work.... Thus you will also be given the strength to overcome yourself, if only the full will strives for such. You should not give up heavenly blessings and My love for the sake of earthly pleasures, for these can never be a substitute for the gifts from above. And so remember, My child, that even today only My love admonishes you and seek to become and remain worthy of it....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers