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5553 Radiance of God's love is bliss.... restriction in life....

December 12, 1952: Book 61

I embrace all My living creations with My love, yet whether they feel My love is up to each individual creature as to what extent it accepts My will, that is, whether it relinquishes its former resistance against Me. It can accept My illumination of love or also reject it. Accordingly, the creature will also become aware of My love or will not be able to feel it. In the state of compulsion the being certainly submits to My will, i.e., it cannot offer Me any resistance but it is not aware of what My strength of love signifies.... It lives well and is active but it lacks the feeling of happiness about its activity. But as a human being, in the stage of free will and the ability to think, it is up to him to allow himself to be permeated by My love or to close himself off to every influx of divine strength of love.... And then it creates the state of bliss or the state of blisslessness for itself, but the human being can only understand this once he has been touched by My love. For My illumination of love touches the soul and it feels happiness even if the human being has no purely physical perception. But as soon as the human being is aware of being able to enter into intimate contact with Me and thus establishes this bond, he is also filled with a quiet bliss, a peace is within him which cannot be given to him in any other way than through the supply of My strength of love. The human being feels secure in Me, everything unsteady falls away from him, he has allowed himself to be seized by My love and now also feels it in a way which is beneficial for him as long as he dwells on earth. He can only endure a certain amount in the earthly body if he wants to remain suitable for the earthly task given to him, and only when he has matured is he able to receive more, otherwise beatitude on earth would be obvious to some people and would mean a compulsion of faith for fellow human beings. But My living creations, the people on earth, shall freely strive towards Me of their own accord, they shall open themselves for My ray of love, they shall hand themselves over to Me without the slightest resistance in order to then be allowed to experience My whole fatherly love, which is unlimited and only ever wants to make people happy. Every person can feel it but he must give up all resistance, for all My living creations emerged from My love, My love will never ever change or diminish. And therefore it applies to everyone, yet it waits to be able to express itself, which is solely up to the human being's will....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers