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2200 The conscious will to serve God....

January 1, 1942: Book 31

The conscious will to serve God is an open concession of submission of will to God. Whoever wants to serve recognizes a lord above him to whom he voluntarily submits himself. And if a person wants to serve God, he has freed himself from the rule of the one who fights God and thus everything that is good.... The will to God is decisive, and man obviously desires God if he offers himself to serve Him. But anyone who strives towards God will also be met by God, for He allows Himself to be found by anyone who seeks Him.... He gives Himself to everyone who desires Him.... And thus the spell is broken which God once imposed on the being because it became apostate to Him, the being becomes free as soon as it wants to serve.... It has passed the test of earthly life, although it still has to fight as long as it remains on earth, but the battle is not a hopeless one, it must inevitably bring it victory.... complete spiritual freedom when it departs from the earthly world. Consequently, the will to serve means salvation, for as soon as man wants to serve God, he declares himself willing to help his fellow man. This is the service God demands of people, that they help to redeem the immature, i.e. that they likewise try to free their fellow human being from the power of the one who caused their banishment. Everything that is unfree, banished is still in the will against God and should change this will. Often it is not able to do this on its own, i.e. it fails to ask God for the strength to do so. Then the fellow human being must help him to do so by trying to introduce him to God's love and goodness, by making His will known to him and by trying to induce him to unite with God and to call upon Him for strength and grace. He then serves his fellow human being with love, and he consciously serves God with this willingness to be redemptively active on earth. He now carries out a work already on earth which earns him a heavenly reward, for he is in God's grace.... but God's grace is: strength in everything he starts, for he is in the circuit of divine love which constantly imparts this strength to him. Thus, it is not the one who wants to rule who will be the recipient of power, but the one who wants to serve.... That which humbles itself deeply before God will be richly rewarded.... He who wants to serve will be allowed to rule, for the flow of power from God enables him to perform an activity that brings him supreme satisfaction. He is immeasurably rich in spiritual good, and he distributes to all those who are in want.... He gave his will to God, and now God Himself determines him to a teaching activity, He makes man wise and therefore gives him light. And the light dominates the darkness.... Whoever surrenders his will to God has given up his former resistance and God can now provide him with spiritual possessions that will last for all eternity....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers