1413 God is love.... divine care in earthly life....

May 11, 1940: Book 23

God is love.... and love often leads you in marvellous ways so that you will reach Him. And one day you will regocnize His love and His wise guidance, and you will praise Him and thank Him without ceasing, and you will pronounce His name in blissful admiration and remember the time on earth with immense gratitude. And the heavenly hosts will join in the song of praise which will resound to the constant honour of God.... this divine love looks after you and gives to everyone what is beneficial for the salvation of his soul. And now you will understand that you are never without divine care. His will guides you and His care is only for you, who are His creatures. In this certainty you can go through earthly life carefree, for every step is mapped out for you and determined by His infinite love for you. And if only you raise your eyes to Him, every step must also be a blessing for you, it must bring progress to the soul, it must be done, as it were, in order to become that which is your final destiny. For your earthly life is only one phase in eternity.... It is the necessary course that leads from one stage to another.... Earthly life cannot be ignored, just as everything that exists must be.... because the divine creator in His wisdom regocnizes it as a means to an end, as the only path to the heights which signify unimaginable glories. And this walk through the valley of the earth is an act of greatest love and mercy.... by offering the beings, who are immensely far away from God, all possibilities to approach Him until the final unification. No being can arbitrarily reach the highest maturity from the lowest level, i.e. even God's infinite love cannot reduce this distance of His creatures because this would completely contradict divine wisdom, divine laws and divine order and thus could not result in anything perfect.... Every being must develop itself upwards, and God's love gives it every conceivable opportunity to do so. It wants to make supreme happiness accessible to the being and therefore constantly endeavours to educate the being such that it can partake of this happiness. And everything that now serves the being for its higher development is assigned to it by God's love. Only divine love allows the being to suffer, for every suffering reduces the distance from God.... And every approach to God is a state of happiness.... So the being must accept suffering in order to attain happiness. It must go through a limited time of being bound in order to be able to live unlimited times in freedom. It must also have passed through the work of creation in order to have absorbed divine strength and thus to have increased itself.... it must have striven for the union with spiritual power in order to be able to be made happy by the fulfilment one day. The being must have regocnized its origin from God, desire to return to Him and fulfil the conditions which result in the union with the eternal deity.... And thus divine love constantly endeavours to bring redemption to everything that has emerged from it....

Amen

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