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5748 Work in the vineyard.... living faith in God and in Jesus Christ....

August 16, 1953: Book 62

Accept from Me what serves you for the salvation of your soul. You could truly shape yourselves in a short time so that you could enter the kingdom of light and all adversity would come to an end for you. But you lack the will, and My will cannot bring about your transformation because you shall become free, blissful creatures. What you do not do by yourselves cannot be done for you as substitute help either, instead, every person has to take responsibility himself whether and how he makes use of his earthly life, and he has to bear the consequences in the life of the beyond himself. Yet as long as he still lives on earth My love will not let up to encourage him to change his nature. I meet him in My word, again and again pointing out to him the effects of his earthly life in a good and in an evil sense, because such ideas offer a possibility for the human being to reflect on the state of his soul and want to improve it. Through My word I also hold out the prospect of the near end with all its manifestations, with its tribulation and hardship and with the last judgment.... But everything is in vain if I don't find faith in people.... And therefore it is of utmost importance that faith first comes alive in people.... faith in a God and creator of eternity Who wants to be recognized by people as father, and faith in Jesus Christ, the redeemer of the world, in Whom I embodied Myself in order to be recognized and loved by people whose love I desire. Everything that now helps to attain faith, to find it again or to strengthen a weak faith is work in My vineyard, for which I always require servants who shall carry out this work in order to help the whole of humanity.... I therefore instruct My servants to always do such work for Me which helps fellow human beings to believe.... But since a right faith has to be such that even the intellect can profess it, it is understandable that only truth will be able to satisfy the heart and the intellect, that what the human being recognizes as truth and thus believes, even without proof, cannot be refuted by the intellect either.... Thus, in order to be able to believe, truth must absolutely be offered, for I do not demand blind faith, no acceptance of teachings which are unacceptable to the intellect despite good will.... I require a living faith, a full inner conviction of what is to be believed, because evidence for it cannot be produced in earthly life.... And the human being can gain this full inner conviction as soon as he is introduced to truth which gives him an enlightenment which touches the willing person's heart and also his intellect such that it fully convinces him. This is why the most important work of a servant in My vineyard is to distribute truth and thus first receive it himself, because no human being can give something he does not possess himself. My servant shall carry out the work on earth in My stead.... he shall only be the organ which is active for Me.... My servant shall lend Me his mouth so that I may speak through him.... and what I now speak is adapted to the spiritual state of people and also of the individual. What I now speak will always be what the person addressed by Me needs. I will always scatter that seed in the field which has the prospect of sprouting and bearing fruit.... For I know people's hearts, the field which is to be worked in order to bear manifold fruit, and I will always offer people that which helps them to have a convinced faith. And thus you, My servants, shall also only ever carry out My will by receiving My instructions, by accepting My word directly from Me and spreading it into people's hearts, who.... because it is purest truth.... are now also willing to believe as long as they are of good will. People shall get to know Me as I truly am, so that they will trust Me and now unite themselves, so that they will voluntarily come to the one Who met them in the word and made Himself known.... They shall learn to believe in Me in order to be able to love Me as well, and of their own accord they shall now seek to change in order to come close to Me, in order to become like Me, Whom they recognized as God and father, because they were taught the truth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers