1510 Transience of the earthly.... clearing away - obstacles....

July 8, 1940: Book 24

The transience of what you humans deem desirable has to be proven to you, only then will you learn to despise matter and only then will you be able to work on yourselves and your perfection. For matter still hinders you far too much, it distracts your thoughts from the actual task of earthly life and thus your time on earth passes by unused. But God has mercy on you and He tries to control the adversity of your souls. And although His programmes on earth result in great earthly hardship, it is nevertheless again proof of His greater than great love in order to spare you far greater hardship one day. Therefore regocnize this His love, whatever He may send upon you. Know that He is only ever anxious to avert far greater adversity from you, but that you cannot be completely spared suffering because you do not do your soul's work yourselves. You live your life regardless of its consequences and thus you do not use it according to its actual purpose. And this results in your spiritual decline which, however, God wants to prevent out of love for you, who are His living creations. But you strive for spiritual decline when you try to increase matter, for then you desire that which you are supposed to overcome.... You desire that which was previously your state, thus you are regressive, whereas it is your task to free yourselves from desire and to overcome all that which is banished in form. In order to make it easier for you to free yourselves from it, God wants to make you aware of its transience and cause you to seriously reflect on your actual task on earth. He removes all obstacles from your path which impede your ascent, yet without earthly hardship your higher development is jeopardized. You cannot be spared suffering because free will has failed. For if you voluntarily surrender everything that is part of the world, the mission from above will not painfully affect you but is merely a confirmation of what your soul has previously regocnized. This is why only the person whose heart could not free itself from earthly desire will ever have to suffer; he will feel painfully if he has to experience the downfall of what seemed desirable to him. And yet such suffering cannot be kept from him, for it is the last attempt to change his desire. If he regocnizes God's will and His love in it, this work of destruction will also be a blessing, for it made him regocnize his actual task. And this task will now be easy for him, he will no longer have to overcome such great obstacles since God Himself has reduced them for him because he himself was too weak to fight against everything that hindered him on the path upwards....

Amen

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