2269 Faith in the work of salvation, grace, strengthened will....

March 19, 1942: Book 31

People have only themselves to blame if they do not find the right relationship with God because they do nothing to acquire the grace of the act of salvation. The strength of will will diminish in those whose faith in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption is weak, for they can only gain strength if they recognize Christ's work of redemption and make use of the graces acquired through His death. Jesus knew about the weakness of human faith and the resulting weak will, and He also knew that people with such a weak will could never escape the power of the adversary. And therefore He died the agonizing death on the cross.... He mustered an excessively strong will and sacrificed this will to the father in heaven for the whole of humanity, so that everyone who recognizes His work of salvation can likewise request the strong will from God and God now strengthens people's will as soon as they believe in Jesus Christ as saviour of the world. For these are His followers, these are His redeemed, when the will awakens in them to allow themselves to be redeemed by Him. There is no other path to redemption than through Him, and anyone who now wants to believe in Him so that he will become free from the power oppressing him will also receive the strength to carry out his will, i.e., he will be able to do everything that helps him to ascend.... he will be able to establish a connection with God, he will be able to pray to Him fervently, he will become capable of love, i.e. he will be willing to serve and give and thus be able to connect with God ever more intimately. He will not lack strength and his will will always be turned towards God. Jesus Christ acquired this grace for people through His death on the cross.... Through His death He wanted to make it easier for all people to mature spiritually, and thus He must now demand faith in His act of salvation, for if people cannot believe they will never be able to avail themselves of His grace and then never be able to redeem themselves by their own strength, i.e. to be able to love and resist the adversary's hostilities by their own strength. For the power of God's adversary was very great before the work of redemption, and it is still unbroken for those people who do not recognize Jesus Christ and His work of redemption. He still has great power over them, which has the effect that their will is weak and they are unable to carry out what they want.... they will always succumb to the temptation placed in their path by the adversary, for God is not at their side to help them because they do not recognize Him, thus they do not avail themselves of His help, His grace. It is a futile battle that these people are now waging; they will always fall back into their mistakes and weaknesses because they do not consciously desire the blessings of the work of redemption on which God has made freedom from the adversary's power dependent....

Amen

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