1463 Arrogance.... conscious request for divine power....

June 9, 1940: Book 24

That is your greatest mistake, that you think yourselves to be in full possession of all strength and believe yourselves to be able to master earthly life alone. And thus you reject the thought that you are in need of help and therefore could also call upon Him for help one day. And therefore your attitude towards God is negative, you don't regocnize Him and thus His constant activity is not apparent to you. And this is an extremely dangerous attitude, for you thereby reduce the strength God gives you for your physical life. He has to diminish it in order to let you regocnize your own powerlessness, He has to let illness and physical suffering come upon you so that you regocnize a higher power in it. The supply of strength from God will be allocated to you as you intend to utilize it. The strength from God is at your disposal unmeasured for your spiritual maturing, but if you do not request it and only need it for the sake of earthly life you will only be able to receive what is absolutely necessary for earthly life, yet all spiritual supply of strength will be withheld from you until you consciously request it. And this lack of strength can only lead you to spiritual decline, for you do not strive for progress and only think of physical well-being. Divine strength has been given to you throughout immemorial times without your will being necessary. But in earth life the will itself must become active to consciously request the power which is at your disposal because otherwise man would be an unfree being which would again be dependent on divine will. The union with spiritual strength is the actual higher development of the spiritual.... To now impart spiritual strength to the being without request would mean to forcibly promote the higher development of the spiritual, and this is completely impossible according to divine law, for such a course of development could never result in God-like beings. The being can reach the highest through its will, but without letting it become active all progress is impossible. Consequently, the human will must always be influenced so that it turns towards God, submits itself to Him and thus also desires strength for spiritual well-being. But people's spiritual state is devoid of light, they do not regocnize the need for help from the eternal deity, they constantly only think of earthly needs and reject every spiritual admonition. They are so far away from God and do not want to regocnize Him nearby and yet believe themselves to be far more advanced in their knowledge because they believe themselves to be unencumbered and free, whereas they want to persuade the spiritually aspiring to be restricted and burdened. And this is also how the young generation is brought up, that they believe themselves to be powerful and strong and capable of carving out their earthly life according to a well thought-out plan. And they lack the supply of strength from God, for they do not desire it. But when the day comes that teaches humanity otherwise, boundless misery and fear will befall people who regocnize their own power as null and void and are at the mercy of powers they cannot withstand. Then the human being will have to decide to perish or to stretch out his hands imploringly towards Him Whom he has so far misjudged, so that He may help him and leave him earthly life for the purpose of the soul's higher development, whose degree of maturity is very low. Yet blessed is he who regocnizes this in the hours of greatest need, God will stand by him and save him....

Amen

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