1499 Fight.... and motive for it....

June 30, 1940: Book 24

The awareness of having accomplished a noble deed will always give the human being a feeling of inner satisfaction, because he regocnizes his purpose and has thus fulfilled his task. And thus everything that is pleasing to God will make the human being free and happy, but what goes against divine will will depress him as long as he regocnizes the injustice, that is, as long as he himself knows that he has done wrong. In the same way, a battle waged for justice and righteousness, waged for the sake of a good cause, will not go against the divine will, for it is always the good, the divine, which is to be promoted by it, as long as greed and injustice are not the cause of the battle. Fighting for a righteous cause will always meet with God's approval, because it is the human being who is supposed to stand up and take care of spreading what is right and good. And this will always be the case if injustice has resulted in grievances that need to be remedied. However, man must always allow the same rights to apply to his opponent.... He must also grant his opponent what he himself desires, he must not only claim the power and the right of the strongest, he must try to settle every dispute mildly and wisely like a father and only then fight with a weapon if his reproaches are not heeded for the good. Then justice is on his side. And so a person will be forced to distinguish whether a fight breaks out of a sense of right and justice or hatred and greed if he wants to fathom the justification for it. He will have to consider how far the measures of the person challenging him to fight correspond to divine commandments, for if God's blessing is demanded, the will of the person fighting must also be to fight for God and His commandments, His demands that He makes on people. God's blessing can only be asked for a cause that is God-willed, but never for a beginning that visibly bears the stamp of evil. Fighting for justice and righteousness will always be in accordance with God's will. How different is the concept of right and justice.... that is what needs to be clarified.... People's erroneous thinking has given rise to a view that threatens to suffocate any sense of justice. Right is what corresponds to the commandment of love.... Right is what God has made known to people through His commandments.... What is right is what does not violate divine order, and divine order is always the divine will.... Therefore, all righteous behaviour must correspond to the divine will. But God wants people to love Him and their neighbour as themselves. If all actions are based on this commandment, man will always be right and just. "Vengeance is Mine", says the lord.... So if a neighbour has sinned against a person, the latter should not take revenge but leave it to the lord, but in most cases the desire for revenge is the cause of a fight, combined with greed for possessions and a thirst for power. But this cannot be right before God. All divine commandments are then disregarded, the fight is not waged against an evildoer in a righteous manner, but the one fighting adds a far greater offence to the existing one, so that he in turn retaliates, often in the cruelest manner. And to call upon God to strengthen his power is presumptuous, for he expects God to approve an injustice and bless a beginning that is born out of bad thoughts that have their origin not in love but in hatred towards fellow human beings. You humans must therefore be discerning and always apply the standard of how far the commandment to love God and one's neighbour is observed by those who quarrel with one another.

Amen

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