2240 Servant of God....

February 21, 1942: Book 31

As soon as a person declares himself willing to participate in the redemption of immature souls, he places his will to work at the service of the lord. He voluntarily offers himself to Him as an assistant, he wants to do what is pleasing to God.... to serve God, i.e. to take care of the souls of his fellow human beings in love and to lead those who are still far from God to Him. This activity will always meet with God's approval because it corresponds to the actual purpose of earthly life, which consists of the redemption of the struggling, still unfree spirits. Whoever offers himself to serve God for this work of redemption is therefore in truth His servant who submits himself to the divine will and is active for Him with His support on earth. Being in God's service is extremely beneficial, because a servant of God is constantly supplied with His grace. God gives him the ability in the same measure as man is willing to serve. God needs labourers for His vineyard in large numbers, and where a person is devoted to God in love, this love expresses itself in a voluntary offer to work, and God accepts his request. He instructs him well beforehand so that he is now able to carry out the work which God now assigns to him. The human being concludes the contract with God in his innermost heart alone, he offers himself to Him without being influenced by the world or his fellow human beings; his love for God and his fellow human beings alone drives him to give himself to God as His servant who is always subject to Him, and no ceremony and no outward appearance is required, for only the human being's will to be redemptively active and to serve God and his fellow human beings is decisive.... Thus the lord calls these His servants, these He considers with His word, these He teaches in the spirit and He gives them strength and grace so that they can now also fulfil their ministry and be active labourers in His vineyard.... A great task lies ahead of them.... they must be the mediators between God and people.... on His behalf they must inform them of His will, they must instruct people to do everything God asks of them, for only by fulfilling the divine will does the human soul become free; it frees itself from the shackles of a power that holds it captive, it is redeemed from this power through the love of God and those people who serve Him in deepest love and humility....

Amen

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