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2862 Mediation of the word of God - act of grace....
August 27, 1943: Book 37
Anyone who makes an effort to live a life of love will also find My grace and My pleasure, and consequently he will also be acknowledged as having received wisdom from Me. And therefore the knowledge a person acquires intellectually is not decisive but only the knowledge he has received from Me Myself as an emanation of My love and grace. Yet as long as they live without love or do not yet correctly recognize My love they also lack faith and the knowledge of My working in those who are devoted to Me and prove this through active neighbourly love. Consequently, they are also unaware of the direct communication of My word, of the transmission of truth which transfers My love to a willing person in order to make it accessible to their fellow human beings through him. It is an act of grace which people would have to recognize if they seriously want to examine and imagine My love for them, and yet they don't want to accept this grace, they want to deny such an act of love on My part because they themselves are unable to recognize My fatherly love due to their lack of love, because they are also unaware of people's adversity and how urgently they need help. People themselves are indifferent to the spiritual hardship of their fellow human beings, and they apply the same standard to My love that it idly watches people take wrong paths which lead ever further away from Me. And they don't want to believe that I make use of a person in order to lead them out of error by conveying the truth to him, which can bring them salvation in the soul's adversity. For only the truth is necessary for the souls to recover, the truth is the only means to find Me and to escape the great spiritual hardship. And because I know about the error and its consequences I take pity on humanity which no longer recognizes Me if I let it feel My love. For only love recognizes Me and My working, only the loving person feels My strength and My grace, and only the loving person consciously receives My strength and grace.... But My working remains hidden from the others because I cannot work in them Myself as long as they do not believe that eternal love embodies itself in a loving heart and that it teaches all wisdom, that it descends to people in the word as soon as a person offers himself to God in love for service and is willing to spread the received divine word amongst people, which My greater than great love conveys to earth for this purpose....
amen
Translated by Doris Boekers