2922 Willing acceptance of divine gifts.... adversary....

October 13, 1943: Book 37

It would be presumptuous not to accept God's grace, which He so lovingly offers to people in order to save them from spiritual hardship.... it would be presumptuous if the gift from heaven were recognized as such and yet rejected.... But people's spiritual state is dark and God's adversary is raging among them, clouding their thinking and trying to turn them away from God. And his influence succeeds in determining people to reject the gifts of heaven. For his power is very great and people's will is weakened. And even the struggling human being often succumbs to his influence because he lacks the heartfelt devotion, the unhesitating trust in God's protection and help, because he does not allow God's strength to affect him without resistance and because any resistance clouds his clear judgment. It is an apparent strength of will and yet an extremely weakened will that is unable to give up resistance because it is pressed to the utmost by the forces that want to corrupt it. The spiritual gifts which God offers to people must lead to God as soon as their strength flows to the person, which, however, only results in the willing acceptance of these. And this strength expresses itself in peaceful knowledge. The human being, who was previously a seeker, is aware that he has found what he was looking for, and he is delighted by this realization, which solves many questions and gives him the inner peace of being sheltered by the divine father's heart. Divine gifts must also exert a truly divine influence on people, they must educate them to love, gentleness and patience, to mercy and peacefulness. However, its influence must not be resisted by not acknowledging its divine origin, otherwise God's gift of grace would restrict people's freedom of faith and will. The power from God can only become effective where it is received with an open heart, where it is desired and therefore also acknowledged. And thus countless threads from the beyond to earth are left unnoticed, forces flow to earth which could have an unspeakably liberating effect on people if they were granted access. But human will closes itself against it, and this resistance cannot be broken by force, the will of man himself must become active, he must be prepared to let the good have an effect on him, and through this willingness withdraw from the powers of darkness. He must want that truth comes to him, that he comes to knowledge, and in this will trustingly abandon himself to the highest power, that it guides and protects him from all error.... The human being is unable to do anything on his own, yet if he requests God's help he will receive light in spiritual adversity.... and then he will no longer reject what is offered to him as a divine gift through God's great love....

amen

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