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2565 God's love and goodness endures forever....

November 28, 1942: Book 33

Great is the goodness of God, for He condemns nothing, but He wants to redeem what is bound by its own guilt. He wants to win for Himself what resists Him, He wants to forgive because weakness is the cause of sin. He is full of mercy and infinite love, and He turns this towards His creatures, rejecting nothing and destroying nothing, but drawing everything to Himself in immense love.... Yet His creatures no longer recognize Him and therefore they distance themselves ever further from Him Who, in His love, leaves no stone unturned to win them back. God's goodness and love can only become effective if His creatures want to belong to Him. He constantly courts the love of His creatures but He cannot force them to love Him, for all creatures are free in their will as to how they should approach their final perfection. For the ultimate goal is union with God, which, however, has to be striven for in complete free will. God's love draws everything to Himself as soon as it surrenders to Him without resistance. divine mercy also helps the weak who want to withdraw from God's love, it condemns nothing, it seeks to lead the lost back onto the right path, for God's goodness lasts forever.... And even if the beingness refuses and resists God's infinite love.... God will never let it fall, but He will try to redeem it, He will give it freedom, because His love and goodness will not let it languish forever in a bound state. God's love is so great that nothing can perish because God's love will not let it fall, and this love will never diminish, for that which has emerged from this love cannot be lost but returns as love to eternal love again.... and even if it is separated from God for eternities, it always and forever remains the strength of love from God, whose ultimate purpose is to return to its source. World events are founded in God's infinite love, for everything that happens is an act of love in order to lead the beingness back to God, from Whom it believed it could separate itself. And even if time on earth is not enough to lead the spiritual substance back to God, God's love and kindness will not stop struggling for the resisting spiritual substance, for God is infinitely merciful and loving.... He descends into the deepest depths and seeks to redeem, He mercifully stretches out His hands to the fallen and pulls it up from the abyss, He hears the call for mercy and leaves no being in the bonds of evil. For everything has emerged from His love, and this love encompasses everything until it has finally returned to Him, Who is love Himself....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers