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1813 Call God's guarantee for truth....

February 16, 1941: Book 27

It seems relatively difficult for people to recognize what is right as long as they only want to recognize the truth with their intellect. Whatever man does.... is to lead to the right success, then God must never be excluded. Therefore, a person cannot think correctly if he does not call upon God, as the truth Himself, for His support and grace. For even if he does not consciously abandon himself to the evil forces, they will always exert their influence and can do so as long as they are not opposed by the will to God and the desire for truth. Therefore, the human being who believes he can solve important spiritual problems without God will always be under the influence of evil forces whose aim it is to eliminate the truth from the world, who want to underlay everything with lies and error in order to block the path to God. The battle of evil against good is immense, and the battle can only lead to victory if God Himself is called upon to help.... Therefore, a person who is truly searching will never be satisfied with the result of his intellectual enquiry, for his soul senses that it has not yet found what is right, and it tries to make him understand his deficient state. For God will not leave an earnest seeker without help. He will always try to make the truth accessible to him, but God's love must then also be recognized. A person must be prepared to subject to scrutiny even that which does not correspond to the previous train of thought.... His will must not be so strong that he is not open to instruction and believes that he has completed his knowledge. And only intellectual thinking is never a guarantee for pure truth, but if this thinking is entrusted to God, if the human being consciously establishes the connection with God before solving spiritual questions, he can accept his newly gained knowledge as truth with complete conviction, for God as the eternal truth protects him from accepting error. It will also be easy for him to recognize, he will understand what previously seemed incomprehensible to him and all doubt will be dispelled from his heart. He will now be convinced that he ‚knows‘ and will no longer need to fear that he is only guessing. And this inner certainty of standing in the truth also allows him to stand up with conviction for what he now recognizes as truth. To surrender to God without reserve, i.e. to present everything to Himself which the person deems worth knowing and to humbly ask for clarification, is the only guarantee for the pure truth, but the same spiritual result will never be achieved (gained?) in any other way, for only God can give out the pure truth and He does so to those who faithfully entrust themselves to Him and ask Him for clarification....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers