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0639 Sluggishness....

October 25, 1938: Book 14

Without beginning and without end, from eternity to eternity, the lord God makes people feel His love.... All things breathe God's love, and the patience and gentleness of the lord makes them endure. And if the lord so obviously works to bring light to His children on earth, this is also proof of His immense love for human beings, whom He has placed in the universe in order to make all its glories accessible to them one day. Such fatherly love also never allows beings, great and small, to be hopelessly at the mercy of evil power. God's will and power will always set a limit to this power so that it does not seize the erring soul too much. People's energy is already an obstacle where the enemy feels paralyzed. The power of action is given to man and he can use it at his own discretion, since at the same time he was also given free will for the earthly career. Whoever makes little use of this energy puts himself into the hands of the enemy, and the eternal deity, Who placed him in the universe, must never be blamed. For every human being is considered by the father in such a way that he has a measure of willpower at his disposal. However, he often opposes this with his own sluggishness and the strength of will is thereby extraordinarily weakened. This is a danger of the greatest importance.... for this sluggishness extends to both earthly and spiritual life. The person who is always active in the worldly sense will also tackle the work on his soul with the same vigour in the case of realization.... He will have the same endeavour to continue the work he has begun for the soul as he does for earthly activity. It is therefore the greatest danger for a person to be inactive on earth, for his soul will then likewise die and his time on earth will pass unused for eternity. The heavenly father's love constantly influences the human being and provides him with every stimulus in order to awaken him from such weakness of will, inactivity and lethargy, and if the human being's will to serve the lord God is good, these stimuli will increase the urge to be active.... But if the human being resists, then the soul, in its distress, seeks a way out by inflicting all kinds of plagues on the body with the help of the good spiritual beings, with physical suffering, depression or discomfort, which make life difficult or unpleasant for him. And then the person looks for a way out himself and, in order to overcome all these resistances, begins to strengthen his will, which then also has a favourable effect on his physical creative power....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers