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3154 Love for the unredeemed.... success....

June 11, 1944: Book 41

Love for all unredeemed people should predominate in you as soon as you want to be active on earth for the kingdom of God. You must know that the souls have to bear a difficult fate if they pass into the kingdom of the beyond in an immature state, and it is the task of those who want to serve God to help these souls while they are still on earth. Furthermore, you must know that God's concern is constantly for these souls because He loves all His living creations and that you, too, belong to those living creations which He cares for in His love.... In the same way you should also give and distribute love to all the poor in spirit, because you thereby also testify to your love for Him when you take care of those on earth whom God is trying to win for His kingdom. The love of your heart must determine you to do so, not that you take care of your fellow human beings' hardship for your own benefit. For only that which is born in the heart is valued, and you will only be able to work successfully if you awaken reciprocal love in people through your love and this reciprocal love can only bring redemption, for it is a step towards perfection. Where there is no love the human being will not be successful in his spiritual work, for loving activity confirms the truth of what you are supposed to convey to the unredeemed souls. What you offer them in love will not fail to make an impression, for love not only speaks to the intellect but also to the heart, and the heart decides whether and what it wants to accept.... Without love you cannot accomplish any work of redemption, neither on earth nor in the hereafter. All your actions and work should be carried by love, and if you want to remedy the spiritual adversity you must try to imagine the painful state of an unredeemed soul after its earthly demise, and you must be urged to want to spare a soul this suffering. You must therefore help it with love to break through the spiritual darkness and offer it the word of God, driven by the feeling to also give something to your fellow human being which makes you happy. You also have to woo their love through a noble, helpful nature and thus be eagerly active as servants of God on earth who want to prepare the way for their lord so that He will be well received when He Himself comes. Only love makes you suitable for this service on earth, without love you can only work with little success, for then your words will fall on barren ground if it is not first made receptive through love for the seed which is to produce delicious fruit. And that is why the word of God can only be successfully spread by those who are in love themselves, for even if the success is not immediately recognizable, the word offered in love will not lose its strength as soon as it is seriously considered even a long time afterwards, for the word imparted in love will also be received intellectually and can still exert its effect of making the heart receptive to it as soon as the person's will is good. In the last days it will be increasingly more difficult to bring salvation to the unredeemed souls because they themselves will put up stiff resistance to every attempt at redemption by offering the truth. And yet you should not let up, bearing in mind the great need of these souls in the beyond. For even if they deny a continuation of life after death, they, too, will one day stand at the gate of death and realize that their existence is not over, they will only find themselves miserable beyond measure in a desolate environment and in a hopeless situation. And then these souls can only be helped through prayer, so that they themselves will change their will and receive strength to work with love, for once again only love is redeeming, love for the even more severe sufferer whom the soul now wants to help....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers