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5837 Serious reminder to accept the divine word....

December 27, 1953: Book 63

You should not lightly reject what is given to you by Me, for it is a most precious gift and one day you will bitterly regret it when you have recognized it as the right means of help to ascend, which you spurned and therefore had to suffer. Accept the gift I offer you, don't be stubborn because the way of imparting it doesn't appeal to you or makes you doubt it.... accept it and examine it for its intrinsic value, and your heart will let you make the right judgment as soon as you are only willing to do what is right. Yet you harm yourselves beyond measure if you miss out on nourishment for your soul which strengthens you and lets you mature; nourishment which My love gives you because you are weak and miserable in your soul and because you cannot attain eternal life in this weakness. You are weakened beings as long as you live on earth without strengthening from heaven.... I alone can impart to you that which strengthens your soul and helps it to ascend.... You must receive the nourishment for your soul from My hand; it cannot be given to you by people on earth who do not possess it themselves.... But if they are in possession of this delicious food themselves, you will also recognize that it is the same food I offer you from above. There is only one thing that can be offered to you as food from heaven.... My word, which always and forever remains unchanging, which comes forth from Me in all purity and has to be received by you humans with desire and gratitude if it is to have its full strengthening effect.... And therefore you should receive it directly from Me, you should draw the refreshing water of life from the source of life, you should not close yourselves off if it also wants to penetrate your hearts, for you should know and appreciate that it is My direct address, that the connection from Me to you is established through My word.... You should appreciate this unusual gift of grace. But how empty you will end up if you reject this precious gift, if you believe that you can find a substitute elsewhere, if you exchange My gift for worthless spiritual knowledge from which you cannot draw any strength and which is completely worthless for the maturity of your soul.... Keep to My word alone, open your heart wide when I speak to you, when My gift from heaven is imparted to you, and let Me warn you to thoughtlessly reject what can never be replaced for you if you have entered the kingdom of the beyond in spiritual adversity. Recognize Me and My immense love for you when I Myself descend to you in the word and believe that I only want to help you, that I want to remedy your weakness and hardship on earth already and one day in the spiritual kingdom....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers