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5917 Bridging the distance from God....

March 29, 1954: Book 64

Do you want to remain at an endless distance from Me? Are you not tempted to always come closer to Me in order to be able to receive My gifts of grace which I bestow upon everyone who voluntarily approaches Me? You can bring about this approach to Me yourselves if only by uniting your thoughts with Me, by letting Me become the object of your thoughts and thus willingly approaching Me.... Even if they are only questioning thoughts, assumptions or doubts for the time being.... the very fact that you allow Me to become the content of your thoughts gives Me the opportunity to influence you without any compulsion of will.... I can now guide your thoughts, I can answer your questions truthfully and I can refute the doubts. Then the desire to remain connected to Me will arise of its own accord, then you will have built a bridge yourselves on which you can move towards Me, you yourselves will have reversed your path downwards; the distance is no longer so great and it will become ever smaller the more willingly you hand yourselves over to Me and My influence, the more often you turn your thoughts towards Me.... and you now also feel My nearness.... My gifts of grace will always be offered to you according to your desire to possess them.... You will feel Me everywhere, for My nearness also has an effect. It is a second life which you now lead next to your actual life on earth, for you now only take this into account as far as your earthly sphere of duty dictates.... But every free minute you will devote to the second life.... you will try to penetrate My kingdom, you will constantly narrow the gulf, you will not rest until you have reached the aim of being united with Me. This is the natural result of your initial mental connection with Me, it cannot be otherwise either, because everyone who turns his thoughts to Me will be seized by Me.... because I will no longer leave anyone out who only turned to Me once, even though it sometimes takes a long time until I have achieved the permanent bond with Me, when the world still intervenes too often and wants to destroy the bridge which is only weak for the time being and cannot bear a great burden.... Yet it is always strong enough if a soul voluntarily enters it in order to reach My proximity.... And a soul which has once voluntarily ventured on the path can certainly slow down its steps at times but it will not give up the path again, for the bridge it has built itself leads into a wonderland, into a realm which appears more appealing to it than the earthly world.... A soul which voluntarily turns its thoughts towards Me will no longer be able to get away from these thoughts, because I will not let go of it and constantly bring Myself close to it in many ways. Only where no attempt has ever been made to bridge the wide gulf there is little hope, because I Myself cannot draw it to Me against the soul's will, because the bridge has to be entered by it Myself, even though I, in My love and mercy, have built the bridge through My crucifixion which is passable for all.... It is not seen by the soul which still turns its will downwards. Yet the slightest thought of Me also illuminates its path. I truly make it easy for every soul to bridge the distance from Me, yet its own will is decisive as to what success it achieves.... I don't force this will but I help and strengthen it if it turns to Me and let every soul that seeks Me find Me....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers