3385 Increased suffering.... catastrophe.... call from the heart....

December 31, 1944: Book 44

Earth has not yet seen greater suffering, and yet it is not enough to change people and make them turn towards God. It is a desolate state, for the earthly world is everything to people, the spiritual world nothing, since they lack faith in it. And even the greatest suffering does not change people's thinking, again and again they fall away from God and confess their affiliation to His adversary through their unkind actions. And thus they strive towards a wrong aim, they walk towards eternal ruin. The suffering still to come upon people would certainly be suitable to change their mind if they are not yet completely under satan’s control, yet he, too, tries to influence people with cunning and force, he tries to revolt them against God and he will succeed, for people themselves lean towards him because he represents the world and promises them an earthly life of well-being.... And thus the last will also come to people, for God wants to show them that everything earthly is transient and that their hopes and desires are deceptive, that everything is void if God does not want it, so that they will recognize that a stronger will rules to which they are subject. Because they don't believe in God, God wants to make Himself known to people, He wants to let His voice sound, powerful and unmistakable; He wants them to recognize their powerlessness and feel a power over them to which they are at the mercy or mercylessness of God. And therefore He will reveal Himself through the forces of nature and make it easy for people to gain faith by suggesting to them to call upon Him, by letting the adversity assail them so frighteningly that they call for help. And if this cry of distress comes from the heart He will help them, each one according to his faith and his desire.... He will consider the souls even if He abandons the body to the raging of the forces of nature.... For it is the souls who are in great distress, since the body's existence is no longer of long duration. Yet He will also save many people earthly, He will bring Himself close to them so that they give up their resistance, so that they allow themselves to be defeated by His love, which they now recognize through miraculous salvation from the danger of the body. Yet this adversity still has to befall people, an event has to take them by surprise which destroys all plans, all hopes, which makes them as helpless as children, so that they, too, call out to their father like children.... so that the soul in its distress turns to the one Who is lord and creator, so that it appeals to Him for mercy and can now be seized by His merciful love. And thus the suffering on earth has to take on forms which appear insurmountable so that the human being's powerlessness will come to the fore and he, in his feeling of utmost weakness and abandonment, in utmost adversity and danger, will call upon the one Who can help him.... And as soon as the call comes from the heart he will be helped....

Amen

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