2217 Necessity of suffering....

January 20, 1942: Book 31

Suffering should make you humans realize that you are still walking wrong paths on earth, that you are not yet purified in your thinking or that you are still far removed from God. As soon as you do not work on yourselves, as soon as you believe that you no longer need an education, you stand still in your spiritual development, and then God has to send you suffering so that you become aware of your shortcomings and join Him closely in prayer. Then only a small amount of suffering will be necessary for you to seek union with God and He can take it away from you again as soon as your thinking is right.... Most of the time, however, humanity is far removed from God, and then it cannot find its way back to Him even through suffering. Then people rebel against the power they are powerless in the face of, and the greater the suffering they have to bear. For if God takes away their suffering, they fall back into their old mistakes and arrogance, they recognize neither God nor their imperfection, and so they do not strive towards God by trying to shape themselves into perfection. There are only very few people who can be spared suffering because they consciously work on themselves, and there are only a few to whom God can draw near to help them bear the suffering, so that such suffering cannot pass them by for the sake of humanity. And therefore the earth will be afflicted in such a way that one sorrowful event will replace the other, and a great affliction will come upon people whose life on earth does not correspond to divine will. For the harsh adversity will change the human being as it appears unbearable to him, and that is the purpose of suffering. God is always ready with His help if people call upon Him, and they can make even the greatest suffering ineffective in a short time through heartfelt prayer. Yet how rarely do people find their way to Him, how rarely does a deep, childlike prayer rise up to the father in heaven so that He can turn to the supplicant and fulfil his request. People become hard and closed-minded when they could achieve everything by trustingly asking.... And that is why they increase the extent of their suffering, they drive themselves deeper and deeper into suffering and misery, so to speak, and they do not recognize God's love in this, which wants to help them....

Amen

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