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5595 Will determines the grant of grace.... grace....

February 6, 1953: Book 61

It is not My will which determines your spiritual state, both on earth as well as in the beyond, but solely your will. Not one person will be left out of My grace, not one person can say that he has never received support from Me, yet his will determines whether and to what extent he makes use of My grants of grace. People who strive spiritually, who are in realization, only reached their spiritual level because they made use of My allocation of grace, it was solely their will which offered Me no resistance and which was willing to take hold of My hand when it reached out to them in merciful love.... And all people could do the same, My hand reaches out to all people in many ways in order to pull them up from a low spiritual state to the height.... Yet I cannot place them against their will into a state which is the fate of those who are at My will. I cannot and will not place them into constrained situations, because an ascent development in constraint does not signify a right maturing of the soul, because every constrained state is contrary to My law of eternal order. Yet I can provide people with graces unmeasured.... And only the acceptance of My grace will bring about an improvement in the human being's spiritual state. Nor should a person ever believe that I give preferentially to My creatures.... everyone receives as much and as often as he desires.... But anyone who never desires grace, who rejects the grace offered to him, also remains incapable of all spiritual striving, and all spiritual knowledge is denied to him. And again, his will alone is also decisive as to whether the human being performs works of love.... This, too, is decisive, because love already provides him with abundant blessings, for I am already so close to a loving person that the will of rejection is no longer present, and then he makes use of all blessings, i.e. he finds every means of help I provide him with beneficial and no longer resists it. It is the will which impels the human being to love or prevents him from working with love, and thus the will also determines the supply of grace, because all resistance has to be given up in order to be touched by the flow of grace. Every person can mature if he wants to, because he is always supplied with strength if he is willing to utilize this strength correctly. And what is easy for one person can cost another a great deal of effort, but only ever because his resistance is even greater and this is solely determined by the human being's will. But I would never demand a transformation of people's nature in earthly life if this were impossible, nor do I demand anything so difficult that it would be difficult to fulfil.... I only demand the abandonment of resistance, which is therefore determined by the will. But once resistance has been relinquished everything else is easy, because now My grace flows continuously and makes everything possible which was impossible before. For grace is everything My merciful love uses to help you.... Every day you still live on earth is grace, every indication as to how you can use your vitality correctly is grace, every assistance offered to you through My word is grace, because My word imparts the knowledge of My will and your task in life to you and through this knowledge you can live a correct way of life and thus attain maturity of soul. My love gives you grace without measure but it does not force your will, and therefore you can indeed become blessed but also remain in wretchedness for an infinitely long time until you change your will after all, until you give up your resistance and desire Me and My love....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers