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5474 Participance in the work of redemption....

August 29, 1952: Book 60

It should not be a law for you, but with inner joy you should serve and participate in the work of redemption. The promise of a reward should not motivate you to do so, but love should urge you to do what helps the souls on earth or in the beyond to be set free from Satan's bondage. An unselfish will to help will always be successful because then love is the power which achieves everything. And thus you will always receive My blessing if you want to help completely unselfishly.... And My blessing means that I Myself will help where your strength is too weak. There are many unredeemed souls who have no human being on earth who remembers them with love. And therefore the path to the light is infinitely difficult for these souls and they become increasingly more stubborn where they should give up their resistance in order to reach the light. Yet I show them all the path they have to take, only that I can only do so again in such a way that they don't necessarily recognise the path as the right one. I certainly send them messengers of light but they are not recognisable to them as such and therefore they are rarely listened to and their teachings are not successfully accepted. However, these souls can only be led onto the right path through instruction, and since they do not believe them and have to do without the power of intercession they remain in darkness for an infinitely long time.... I inform you, who are fellow helpers in the work of redemption, of their hardship in order to stimulate your hearts to intercede, but which I again do not demand of you, because only prayer with love will give strength to those souls, but love cannot be demanded. Yet I describe the hardship of these souls to you as immense, and yet you cannot fathom their torment from which I would like to liberate them and will do so if you contribute towards it, if you give them loving thoughts and would like to help them out of your innermost impulse.... An unbending will can soften as a result, a hard defiant spirit can become compliant and draw strength from you because you want to help it. Consider that you are all children of My love and that you are all close to My heart.... but that you, who live close to Me, are far more blessed than your brothers who languish far away from Me in weakness and darkness.... Carry light to them, impart strength to them, for you, who receive abundantly from Me, can give to them, and love shall inspire you to do so, then you will prove that you are My children, that I Myself can work in you as it were. And then the work on the fallen brothers will not be in vain, then you will show them a path which they will willingly take and I will stretch out My hands towards them so that they will safely reach the goal.... so that they, too, will return to the Father's house which they once left voluntarily....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke