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2459 A brief guide for life....

August 28, 1942: Book 33

Your life should be an activity of love, and no matter what you start, love should always be the driving force and you should always be in inner contact with God. And you are connected to God when you are active in love.... And you always and constantly have the opportunity to do so, you will always be able to give your help to fellow human beings in need, be it physically or spiritually. Every good word, every helpful deed is a labour of love if it comes from the heart, i.e. if it is done voluntarily in the urge to help. And God sees the will of your heart, He knows your disposition and also judges your deed of love accordingly. And thus you fulfil the greatest commandment to love God above all else and your neighbour as yourself.... For as soon as you do good to your fellow human beings, as soon as you stand by each other like brothers and serve each other, you also prove your love for God, for in your neighbour you also love the one Who created him; you love the father, from Whom you all emerged as His creatures. And you draw ever closer to your eternal outcome, you draw near to God, from Whom you once separated yourselves.... Through love you return again to the one Who is love in Himself, and thus you now also fulfil your task on earth by shaping yourselves according to God's will, by shaping your heart through loving activity into a worthy reception of the divine spirit of love.... In order to grasp this, you must know that your soul should unite with the spirit within you, which, as a divine spiritual spark placed within you, awaits its awakening through loving activity.... Only when this spiritual spark within you has been awakened can it become effective, that is, it can instruct you from within, and if you remain in love you will draw the divine spirit to you, which will unite with the spiritual spark within you.... And thus your soul can contain the eternal deity, the divine spirit, in all its fullness if you endeavour to shape it according to God's will.... by working on your soul, i.e. by fighting against evil thoughts and desires and striving for a righteous, pure and loving way of life.... This is all that God asks of you during your life on earth. And in order for you to be able to do so, He provides you with His grace without measure, His help, His strength.... but which you have to request in prayer, which you have to ask for so that it can come to you, for it will only flow to you through consciously desiring it, because you thereby express your will to God that you are longing for Him.... Then His love seizes you and He will never let you fall.... He teaches you through His spirit within you and introduces you to the truth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers