1519 Misguided thinking.... misguided....

July 13, 1940: Book 24

The spirit from God conveys to you a proclamation of immense importance, and He therefore needs your whole will and joyful acceptance of this message....

There will be little success with those whose train of thought is misguided and who are nevertheless firmly convinced that they are in the truth and in knowledge. And the father in heaven wants to help those, for they were misguided through no fault of their own. They trusted their spiritual leaders on earth all too much and allowed themselves to be guided according to their will. This is indeed a certain weakness of will and a misuse of one's own intellect, which God has given to man for his time on earth and which he should use as strength. But since already in earliest youth unqualified people seized the train of thought of such weaklings and thus directed it according to their own judgement, the human being was inevitably pushed into a wrong direction of thought and can now hardly free himself from it, since those people found ways and means to impose a certain spiritual bondage on those entrusted to them, which was to eliminate their own thinking, which was desired by them. And the lord takes pity on these enslaved people and tries to help them in various ways.... by first causing them to think for themselves through earthly hardship. He tries to bring them enlightenment and is close to them. Yet He demands a willing concession from them that they likewise allow their free will to become active. This is absolutely necessary, since the free will also received the educated teaching, it must now also test what is now offered to it for its truthfulness and thus accept or reject it. For God cannot switch off His sense of justice, He must accept everyone's attitude. Since he previously allowed himself to be ruled by a foreign power, switched off his own thinking and unconditionally accepted what was offered to him, God must now also demand the same for the teaching which He Himself offers to people from above.... He must be instructed a second time, so to speak, and in a completely new spiritual direction. But he must now use his intellect to scrutinize what is presented to him. If he is a believer, that is, if he has God in his heart, he will soon regocnize which side is the pure truth. If the will is active in him to fathom it, God will also equip him with sharp reasoning and he will succeed in freeing himself from the compulsion that has been exerted on him up to now. An unbelievable number of errors have arisen through precisely this influencing of people by ignorant earthly teachers who only want to serve God in name only, and the human being must absolutely free himself from this influence in order to now turn his thoughts towards the pure truth. The strangest of occasions can be the occasion for a person to learn to regocnize the unfoundedness of those teachings hitherto considered to be true and, even if only purely inwardly, to begin to separate himself from what is eternally only an obstacle for him.... Once he has regocnized the error, his own mind joins in and prevents any further influence by erroneous teachings. And then the person who was responsible for changing his thinking has an easy game if the other person is willing. But it is unbelievably difficult when the adversary has already succeeded in completely confusing the human being's thinking, when he can no longer distinguish between divine and human activity if he is given clear evidence of the former. God will then have to send them the most severe suffering so that it will have the desired effect and people will use their intellect correctly....

Amen

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