2760 Purpose of the divine commandments.... eternal bliss....

May 31, 1943: Book 34/35/36

Fulfilling the divine commandments is the first condition for a way of life that is pleasing to God. The divine commandments, however, only require the human being's love, thus the human being's way of life should be a continuous labour of love.... the ultimate purpose of earthly life is to become like God, Who is love in Himself; and since the human being is without knowledge when he starts his earthly life, the divine commandments, which demand continued loving activity, are given to him as a guideline for his life on earth, and it is up to his free will to organize his life accordingly. However, no human being can become blessed without love, so the ultimate purpose of the divine commandments is to be able to enter into eternal bliss.... God has given His commandments in order to be able to give people the great happiness that lasts forever, because without love no human being can become blessed. He should become what entering the kingdom of light requires of his own accord, yet he is powerless and his ignorance would not be an incentive to shape his soul for the spiritual kingdom himself. And this is why God gives the human being His commandments so that he will be nourished with strength by fulfilling them and his ignorant state will change into a knowing one. For as soon as he has become knowledgeable he moulds himself, i.e. out of inner impulse, into Godlikeness, he tries to assimilate himself to the eternal deity, which again can only happen through deeds of love. Then he no longer needs the divine commandments, because as soon as his heart is capable of love, it urges him to practice love, because the power from God continues to flow over to him and this power drives him to activity in love. Thus the divine commandments are only a means that the ignorant human being is urged to receive strength, that he therefore first testifies to his will and God can consider him according to this will. The divine commandments are the indication of the right path, for he only takes this path through loving activity, initially still unaware of the spiritual success which, however, results in ever brighter realization, which is proof of the strength flowing to the human being from God.... God wants to educate people to love and He gives them His commandments, which only demand love.... As long as man is still far from God, he perceives these commandments as a burden because he himself does not know love. But if he is urged to observe these commandments then he will also feel that he is coming closer to God, so that he will fulfil God's commandments more and more voluntarily because he will be strengthened by the strength from God and his spirit will be enlightened. And that is why he is to be educated to labour of love, so that the latter is then exercized in all freedom of will and earns the human being the state of knowledge, of realization, which enables him to enter the spiritual kingdom. Loving activity is the only path to God, and this path is shown to people through the divine commandments, but their fulfilment is never compulsorily demanded. If the human being wants to ignore them then he will remain in a dark spiritual state; he is by no means forced to practice love, only repeatedly reminded through suffering and battles during his earthly life to be lovingly active because God does not want to leave him to his ruin. This is why the divine commandments are repeatedly held up to him, his thinking is repeatedly influenced and he is repeatedly placed in situations where he can carry out works of love so that he can test for himself what effect the activity of love has.... for his spiritual state depends on the fulfilment of the commandments and on this depends his entry into eternal bliss.

Amen

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