0994 Power of divine love.... resistance....

July 5, 1939: Book 19

Nothing is more powerful and extensive than the power of divine love. Man and every work of creation are the products of this love, and countless new creations are immediately brought into being through the power of divine love and everything that lives is continuously cared for. Whatever is born of love must move unchangingly in this love and be fed and sustained by it. For a being that lacked divine love would have to cease to exist, since it is in itself God's will to love and therefore, if God wanted to withdraw His will to love, it could no longer exist. Yet God's wisdom, in loving care, united all beings emanating from Him with each other again through love, so that they, as separate beings, seemingly stand isolated in creation, yet strive towards their starting point again through active love for each other and thus become again what they were from eternity.... power and love in God.... And since divine love rules everything, because everything emerged from it, no other power can ever destroy what is love in itself.... Yet the God of love also created a resistance for Himself and endowed it with the same abundance of strength, with the same abilities and free will in order to be able to test the strength of His love as it were.... For it had to be a resistance in order to stimulate all existing things to extreme activity from then on, for all activity unfolds according to its resistance. Only in constant struggle does strength increase, and constant activity is life. And because all strength from God is available to these God-begotten beings, it is also possible for them to overcome the resistance, as a result of which the strength in itself increases but is lost to the opposing power to the same extent. God's love is light, strength and grace, and the being's reunification with God takes place when it desires divine grace, which gives it strength from God, and the being then becomes pure light and love and has therefore returned to its origin. Every reduction of this strength withdraws the light from the being and increases the power.... thus the influence of the adversary on the being. But then the love of God wrestles with the adversary.... in that God's grace approaches the being to an unusual degree and now a fierce battle starts for the spiritual being born of God, on which love imposes itself as it were in order to show it the right path. Yet in the same way the opposing power also struggles for its possession, only it does not choose noble means but tries to force the spirit down through vices, hatred and vices of all kinds, and these means of power are by no means as successful as divine love.... For the power is love, which is inherent in every highly developed spiritual being, is already so inexhaustible and powerful that it conquers the power of darkness.... Yet every spirit was created out of God with free will, love courts every being and is not afraid of resistance, for it can never exert itself, thus it cannot be defeated either.... Conversely, however, evil is not banished in the will either, for it drives love to highest activity, thus also to constant increase.... And thus the adversary loses power despite all apparent successes.... one being after another is wrested from him through love.... Love will assert itself and encompass everything in infinite space, in time and eternity....

Amen

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