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2050 Right relationship and living connection.... externalities....

August 30, 1941: Book 30

Being seized by God's love and considered with His grace always eliminates erroneous human thinking. The human being's will must first have recognizably turned away from God so that he falls into disgrace, only then is it possible for untruth to take possession of his thinking. However, as long as a person's will only strives for what is right, as long as he fears God as a righteous judge and always endeavours to live for His pleasure, the gates are closed to untruth; it will not find a heart willing to receive it, and in this realization everything that is conveyed from above to a person who is visibly in God's grace may be accepted as purest truth. God loves all His children and wants to protect them from untruth, yet they mostly withdraw themselves from His protection through their willingness to be God's adversary. However, if a child consciously submits to the father, trustingly surrenders to Him, desires His love, His grace and the truth, the father will truly not leave this child unprotected.... For this is the right relationship of the child to the father, which God wants to be established between His earthly children and Himself. This contact between the child and Him is free of outward appearances, it is the living connection which the human being enters into with God and an extremely beneficial act of will which is far more valuable than customs and traditions introduced by people which are intended to feign true worship of God and yet prevent people from entering into heartfelt and sincere contact with Him. For an intimate connection with God requires seclusion from the world, it requires a complete detachment from everything earthly.... Man must go into his innermost being, free and unhindered by external influences, and now pray very fervently: "Father, here I am.... take hold of me with Your love and grace and let me be blessed in You...." Every external influence, to which the human mind is still receptive, makes such an intimate connection impossible, because the human mind remains turned towards the world. He sees and hears things that belong to the world but which do not touch the innermost essence of God, even though they are supposed to visualize Him. And this focussing of the senses on outward appearances turns the union with God into an empty form. The human being believes himself to be connected to God when he attends actions that have nothing to do with the deep inner worship of God, and he loses the desire for a truly inner union with God, and this is a great danger for him....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers