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2884 divine love....

September 16, 1943: Book 37

The essence of the deity is incomprehensible to people as long as they cannot form a proper concept of what love is.... God's love cannot be remotely compared to human love, for the former is of such infinite depth and intimacy that human love is only a reflection of it, even if it is pure and pure, i.e. unselfish. But the person who loves is capable of making every sacrifice, fulfilling every wish and doing everything that gives him pleasure to the one he loves.... He seeks to protect him from suffering, from danger and to make his path through life a beautiful one.... But how much more is divine love concerned with the well-being of its creatures.... Yet people doubt this deep, heartfelt love of God, or they are not aware of it, otherwise they would be filled with profound faith and trust in God, otherwise they would understand much of what they reject due to their ignorance. For everything can be explained by God's profound love.... As soon as they keep this in mind, as soon as they try to penetrate God's supreme nature and imagine His infinite love, they also carelessly surrender to His guidance; they act as their heart urges them because they feel secure in God's guidance, because they know that His love will not let them go astray if they entrust themselves to Him.... A loving God will never let His creatures go astray unless they reject His love. A loving God will neither leave them in distress of soul nor in earthly distress if the human being takes refuge in His love. And thus it goes without saying that He reciprocates a person's love for Him, that His love seizes him and never wants to leave him, because His whole being is profound love which is like a fire, like a light which radiates through everything, which wants to ignite everything that comes within the range of His radiance.... divine love is deep and heartfelt, it is always willing and always ready to forgive. And it constantly courts reciprocal love. Man, however, is not able to reciprocate the deep divine love and therefore often doubts God's love by believing that people are left to their own devices, by disbelievingly rejecting God's obvious activity and therefore also questioning His care and love for people. Although he speaks of God's love, this is a figure of speech that will only be more to him when he himself begins to comprehend the nature of God, which is love in itself, through the working of love. divine love has only one goal, to make His living creations happy, and even the greatest suffering serves this purpose, and if the human being surrenders to God with complete trust then everything he is given will be an expression of His infinite love. And this love will never let a human child fall prey to ruin who calls upon Him, who surrenders himself to Him, who desires His love and offers his weak strength to serve Him.... divine love will watch over such a person, it will gently lead him by the hand so that he will not stumble, it will mark out his path on earth and constantly supply him with strength and give him the right knowledge. For love is eternal and it tries to guide the spiritual substance towards itself forever, it tries to impart the fundamental strength to it again so that it will likewise become love and thereby penetrate ever deeper into the essence of divine love, and now this is no mystery to the human being as soon as he himself is in love....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers