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2465 "Blessed are the poor in spirit...." failure to recognize the divine gift....

September 4, 1942: Book 33

How small man is, and how wise and powerful he thinks he is.... He believes he can reject divine gifts and wants to superimpose his own wisdom on them. And he does not consider that his intellectual thinking is also a gift from God, which he misuses if he does not use it in such a way that he learns to recognize God. God is the origin.... but he values himself too highly, he does not want to accept anything above himself, otherwise he would also have to value his wisdom less than he does. But he smiles loftily when he is offered knowledge that far exceeds his own.... he smiles because he believes himself to be knowledgeable and therefore also capable of passing judgement. And therefore he cannot increase in knowledge because he does not desire it.... And God therefore distributes wisdom to those who feel lowly and ignorant, who would like to increase their knowledge and who recognize a being above them Which knows everything, thus also about the spiritual poverty of His living creations, which He can remedy.... And blessed are those who feel poor in spirit, who do not call worldly knowledge their own, which makes them arrogant in spirit.... blessed are those who are hungry for the wisdom from above, who want to draw from the fountain that God Himself has opened.... this spring is accessible to every human being, yet mankind passes it by with disdain.... But the living water that flows from this spring is the most delicious thing available to man.... It provides him with a treasure that far surpasses all earthly goods. For wisdom from God is a gift of grace that a person will never want to do without once he has received it.... Wisdom from God has eternal value, wisdom from God makes man indescribably happy, and wisdom from God gives strength to strive for the heights.... Worldly knowledge, on the other hand, fades and is worthless, i.e. it is only useful for the time of the earthly change and also only brings earthly advantage. spiritual knowledge, however, is of little use for earthly life and yet the human being will not give it up once he has found it. And those who reject it thereby testify to their merely worldly attitude and their little desire for truth, otherwise they would have to recognize it as a precious gift and would also strive for it....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers