2251 Suffering and tribulation proof of God's love....
March 6, 1942: Book 31
Whom the lord loves, He leads through much tribulation and suffering in order to purify him while he still dwells on earth. And bear this in mind if He imposes suffering on you that seems unbearable to you. In His wisdom He has truly chosen the best for you, even if you cannot understand this on earth, yet your soul will thank Him profoundly when it has ended its earthly life. For then it will also realize how much further it has progressed through the path of suffering it was destined to take on earth. It is only a short time that you walk on earth, but life in eternity is endless. And life in bliss is truly worth the suffering that man had to endure on earth. On the other hand, anyone who is spared all kinds of tribulation on earth has a far more difficult path to cover in the beyond, for the soul first has to completely purify itself in the beyond, and this requires a much longer time and excessive effort. Life on earth is rich in favours, and every suffering, every sorrow is in a certain sense a favour, for it helps the soul to ascend. It is a means that God uses, which is much more successful than the divine teachings are if they are not heeded. Suffering must be heeded and brings about the actual change of thinking. But a carefree life on earth only makes people become more and more superficial, because the pleasures of life drown out all spiritual knowledge and spiritual desire and man becomes more and more alienated from God. For it is certainly true that suffering leads closer to God, provided that the human being is not so distant from God that he does not think of God even in suffering or rejects Him completely. At the moment the whole world is in a state distant from God and therefore does not recognize suffering as a divine mission or admission........ And this causes God to intervene even more tangibly and to shake people out of their spiritual calm. He has to send them even more suffering, He has to help where people are in great danger of no longer remembering their actual destiny but seek their salvation solely where God's adversary is active.... in the pleasures of the world.... And God wants to keep this away from you, and therefore you have to take suffering upon yourselves and endure with patience everything that God lets come upon you as a blessing....
Amen
This proclamation is used in the following themebook:
| Themebook | Title | Download |
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| 170 | The Purpose Of Suffering | ePub PDF Kindle |
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