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1023 What is grace....

July 25, 1939: Book 19

Desire divine grace and life will bring you fulfilment, for you will have matured in soul and spirit and will not have lived earthly life in vain. And those who are in the grace of God are to be called incomparably rich, even though their earthly life is rich in privations. For what they lack for the well-being of the body is often offered to them for the soul. It is unspeakably valuable to know that one is under divine protection, and whoever lives in grace is protected by the lord from every danger to his soul, and every gift of grace increases the person's spiritual capacity and brings the soul closer to its goal, the union with its spirit from God. How unspeakably poor, on the other hand, is the person who believes he can manage without divine grace; his life is empty in spiritual terms and he always walks on level ground but never ascends. For divine grace is the epitome of divine guidance.... He who asks for grace will not be left without it, and to receive divine grace means to be relieved of all personal responsibility, for the lord Himself takes His earthly child by the hand and leads it because it has confessed its will to Him and entrusted itself to Him.... "Take me and protect me, I want nothing other than to be led by You....", so your prayer shall resound in the spirit.... And the father in heaven will not let His child walk alone from now on. He will receive all strength, for this is the lord's grace, that He gives him what he lacks.... right realization, strong will and strength to carry out everything He asks of His earthly child. Thus, anyone who avails himself of grace will also be able to fulfil what is demanded of him, i.e. the body will take the soul's desire into account and this will no longer be directed towards earthly possessions and well-being but solely and exclusively towards its union with the divine spirit. And this is the effect of grace which everyone can observe in himself who implores the father in heaven for grace in fervent prayer. Grace is everything that helps you spiritually.... grace is every thought which is imparted to you and which points you upwards.... grace is every experience that touches you spiritually.... grace is the union of spiritually related people.... and grace is every word that reaches you from above.... Everything that helps you to separate yourselves from the world is divine favour, and you are to ask for it without ceasing, for it is at your disposal unmeasured, but your will must itself be directed towards it, and your heart must childlike humbly approach the father in heaven for it, then you will still achieve great things on earth, and your end will be a happy one....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers