4554 Requirement of grace spiritual and earthly....

February 1, 1949: Book 53

Ask for grace and it will be granted to you in abundance. Without grace you are weak and unsuitable for the work on your soul, without grace you can certainly create and work earthly because vitality is at your disposal but it should also be blessed in order to be used for the right activity. Therefore you should also ask for a blessing for your earthly activity and thus commend body and soul to the blessing of your heavenly father. For without divine blessing, without God's grace, you will have little success spiritually as well as earthly. And if you have earthly success you are in danger of falling prey to God's adversary, for he, too, can favour your work if you are at his beck and call. And beware of this, don't let him become your helper, don't use his strength to increase earthly success but turn to the heavenly father in humble prayer that He may take you into His protection and support you spiritually and earthly, ask Him for His grace, for strength for spiritual striving, and your earthly striving will likewise be blessed. Body and soul need help, for as a human being you are still too imperfect to be able to help yourselves by your own strength, yet with the strength from God, with His grace, with His support, you can create supernatural things. But this grace has to be requested, the human being has to consciously turn to God for help and thereby admit his weakness to Him; he has to acknowledge God as the source of strength Who, in His love for His living creations, is willing to help and does not refuse any request for strength. He Himself has called upon you with the words: "Come to Me, all of you.... I will refresh you". He wants to pour out His measure of grace upon you who are in need of it, He wants to help you in your upward development, in your spiritual and earthly striving. And you will be able to achieve the greatest success if you comply with His call, if you take refuge in Him when you are weak and feel little capable of spiritual and earthly activity.... Then call upon Him to bless your will and give you strength, that He may remain with you always and constantly with His grace, so that you may reach the aim.... to mature in earthly life for eternity....

Amen

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