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2791 Living water....

June 29, 1943: Book 37

Without hesitation, you should accept God's gift and allow it to work on you, for it is the living water that constantly flows from the divine source, which you should drink and draw strength from. For you will truly need this strength in the coming times. God Himself has opened the spring for you in His love, for He knows of your need and He knows what you are lacking. And you truly do not need to live in want as long as His fatherly love is turned towards you as His children. And He will provide you with physical and spiritual food if only you desire the latter and open your hearts when He offers you His gift. His gift of grace, His word, the living water, is founded in His fatherly care, and since it is now offered to people with love it must also ignite love in people and let it flare up into a bright flame, it must awaken them to life, i.e. stimulate them to constant activity, it must bring refreshment and strength like the clearest water to anyone who wants to draw from the original source of wisdom and love.... This spring will never run dry, for God's love and wisdom are inexhaustible. But those whose hearts do not long for refreshment and strengthening will not find the source, it will remain hidden from them and they will lose unsuspected strength. It is true that man is repeatedly informed that divine love has this gift of grace in store for him, he is repeatedly led close to the spring from which living water flows. But he is never forced to accept what is offered to him as a divine gift of grace. It is entirely up to his own free will whether and how he utilizes the flow of strength, and he can only be advised by fellow human beings to make himself worthy of divine love and mercy so that he can be abundantly provided for during his earthly life. And because the human being's will has to become active itself, so few people come into possession of the most precious gifts, they remain poor where they could become immeasurably rich, they remain powerless where unsuspected strength is at their disposal, and they remain ignorant where profound wisdom would be at their disposal if they desired it. The lack of will determines their spiritual development, thus their degree of maturity, because it prevents the human being from becoming knowledgeable, for profound wisdom can only be drawn from the spring from which living water flows. But knowledge is necessary in order to reach the heights. Knowledge can indeed be gained through loving activity, but if the human being does not receive the strength from God, if he does not draw it from His divine source of grace, he is not capable of loving activity. The strength, however, will reach him if he is willing, that is, if he no longer resists God. Resistance, however, is when His gift of grace is ignored or openly rejected, resistance is when the human being does not open himself, when he closes his heart when the divine word, which imparts strength to him to a great extent, is made accessible to him. The human being cannot be forcibly guided into knowledge, thus grace cannot reach him either if he does not demand it or oppose it with resistance. And the human being will travel the earthly path without strength and his soul will suffer because it is denied refreshment at the source of truth, because it is not given the right food and drink, which is the fault of the human being's will. There is no substitute for the supply of grace through the divine word; there is no fountain from which the same water flows to awaken it to life.... And so there is also no path that leads upwards if it does not pass by the spring of living water.... And the weary traveller on earth should pay attention to the spring, he should rest and strengthen himself for his onward journey, he should gather new strength and supply his soul with what it needs.... For it is not the body that is important on earth, but only the soul, and if it is deprived of strength, its earthly journey is far more difficult and usually goes astray. But it draws new strength from the source of divine love. It receives wisdom from God Himself, it attains realization and its state becomes full of light so that it now clearly recognizes its earthly path, that it sees the goal before its eyes and can pursue it with hope. And anyone who draws from the fountain of life is assured of his spiritual ascent, for it is God Himself Who draws and guides him along the right path towards his eternal home.... And therefore the divine fountain of grace will never run dry, the delicious gift of grace will always and forever flow from it, which is absolutely necessary in order to attain eternal life....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers