1405 Receiving the divine word of unusual grace....

May 2, 1940: Book 23

It is an extraordinary grace to be allowed to receive the word of the lord, after all, it also gives the human being on earth extraordinary strength to strive upwards. The slightest hint, if it is followed, promotes the soul in its development, and it is spared so many hours of doubt and weakness of faith, which a person has to overcome who does not really find the inner connection with God. For the reception of the word is always only the effect of the most intimate bond with the heavenly father. And the father will always consider the children accordingly who come to Him in all intimacy and who feel the need to communicate with Him in the most childlike way. The strength of the desire for God is always the yardstick by which the strength from God is also measured out to him. And man can achieve incredible things the more intimately he enters into contact with God, for he also receives incredible strength. Completely 'abandoning himself to the lord' will result in being completely imbued with divine strength, and then it will be possible for the earthly child to achieve what is inconceivable for his fellow human beings. It only requires the will to serve God and to help fellow human beings in order to be honoured with the extraordinary grace of receiving divine words. For this will testifies to the fact that man endeavours to fulfil God's commandments.... to love the lord God above all things and his neighbour as himself. He desires, as it were, the word for the salvation of the souls of his fellow human beings, he regocnizes the spiritual adversity and wants to remedy it by enlightening and influencing his fellow human beings. And this will earns him the divine gift of grace, for everything that wants to serve God is welcome to the lord on earth as in the hereafter. Only serving in love brings redemption, even though the battle on earth for the salvation of erring souls is often a difficult one and the good will of man usually encounters hard resistance. God's love is constantly directed towards these erring souls, and if the person is likewise in love and only makes himself available to the lord as a mediator, God's love can work through this person without appearing to the person as a compulsion to believe. For it would certainly be easy for God to make His will audibly known to people, but the consequence of this would not be those who voluntarily desire Him but creatures who fulfil His commandments in fear and blind obedience and who could never attain childship to God as directed beings. But if God uses a mediator to whom He reveals His will.... these revelations on the one hand make fellow human beings suspicious, but on the other hand do not force them to accept them as divine revelations, then man is thereby left with freedom of will; no compulsion makes man unfree, and this is of utmost importance. Every person must come to the father of his own free will.... he must seek God, then God will also let Himself be found, and indications of God's eternal glory are offered to man enough so that he can send his thoughts to the creator and also desire Him.... The awareness of being able to receive strength from God is something exceedingly glorious, it lifts the human being above the heaviness of earth and his earthly life is truly easier than without the utilization of this divine strength. So many are called.... Everyone has the opportunity to utilize the power from God, to make contact with Him and thus to be a bearer of divine power.... However, only a few are chosen.... few take advantage of the divine offer and willingly receive the power through their desire for the lord. And so God can only consider a few who intimately unite with Him and, as it were, declare their consent by wanting to work with Him and for Him. Serve.... Serving God and your neighbour.... is your task in life, which you can accomplish easily and effortlessly if you make use of the strength from God. And God shares it with everyone who wants to receive it.... You cannot measure the grace you are all entitled to, which you need only make use of and which brings you incredible blessings.... which guarantees your higher development and can still shape you into a being of light on earth if you regocnize and desire it as such.... And if you receive the word which informs you of divine will, you will also simultaneously receive the strength to fulfil this will. You should not worry that you will be unable to fulfil what God asks of you, for He Himself is with you in the word, He strengthens and fortifies you and enables you to do everything that corresponds to His will. And that is why you should submit to everything He asks of you without hesitation. For if only you want to, you will succeed in everything that corresponds to divine will. Incredible things can be achieved by a person whose will only applies to God.... who only strives towards Him, for God's wisdom and love regocnizes his will and gives him strength for his plan. And the received word will always be the greatest source of strength.... Anyone who accepts this within himself will become tangibly aware of the strength; his faith will grow stronger, his energy will become lively and his will will always and constantly submit to the divine will, and thus the human being will already be able to have a redeeming effect on earth on himself and his fellow human beings....

Amen

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