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5505 Fighting and wrestling leads to the goal....

October 12, 1952: Book 60

By fighting and struggling you reach your goal on earth, the perfection of your soul. This perfection cannot be given to you out of My love, but you have been given the task to shape yourselves such that you can enter the spiritual kingdom as perfected. And this task requires your will to fight and overcome everything which characterises you as imperfect beings. Thus, you have to wrestle.... with all your strength, you have to fight a battle with yourselves.... And this battle is often more difficult than fighting an enemy which confronts you from the outside. For you still love the enemy you have within yourselves, otherwise it would be easy for you to displace him.... The love for your faults and weaknesses does not allow you to proceed seriously enough, and therefore you are required to wrestle and fight seriously in order to emerge victorious, in order to reach your earthly goal, that your soul has attained the maturity which is the condition for entering the kingdom of light. And it will be understandable to you that the less you still love your flawed ego the easier the battle will be for you. You must therefore try to recognise yourselves in order to also detest that which still clings to you, which you should overcome. Only when you recognise that you are imperfect will you seriously strive to become as it is My will, and then you will consciously fight and struggle, you will strive for perfection, and the strength will also flow to you that your battle will end victoriously. But he who still has too much regard for the world does not recognise himself either and therefore makes no effort to undergo an inner transformation. His life will seemingly be an easy one on this earth, he has no inner scruples and reservations, he considers what he does to be right, because he only considers the earthly advantage, but not the damage his soul will suffer as a result of his actions. For he does not recognise his state, his destiny and his earthly task. Man must seriously come to terms with himself, only then will he fight against his wrong love, against all instincts and faults that still rest in him as consequences of his former sin. Fighting and struggling are indispensable if the human being wants to attain perfection, yet with a serious will he will be victorious, and his fate will be a marvellous one.... Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke