Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/6115

6115 Crossroads.... way up right....

November 21, 1954: Book 66

If you come to a crossroads and do not know which way to turn, then choose the path that leads upwards.... Do not fear the hardship of the path, do not shrink back if it sometimes seems impassable, but remember that you can only reach the aim by overcoming it, but that you will be compensated a thousand fold for your efforts and exertions. Never let yourselves be tempted to take a path downwards, even if it seems appealing and easy.... it leads to the depths.... But your gain is above, and the fact that the path upwards is difficult already proves that it is also the right one.... You should prove yourselves during earthly life, you should overcome, fight and steadily advance.... but never stop or go back, for I will always await you above, not in the abyss. And if you stand undecided at a crossroads, then guides will also approach you, and then pay attention to what they suggest to you.... pay attention to whether they lovingly offer you their company, their help, or whether they only try to entice you with hints of the joys and pleasures awaiting you, if you follow their advice.... Take heed of what your friends offer you as an aim.... and you will already recognize the right leaders, if I Myself am your aim.... Then accept their leadership and they will support you and help you over cliffs and rocks, over thorns and brushwood, for they are My messengers whom I send to meet you so that you will not become weak or turn back. And soon you will no longer feel the hardship like that, for a light will shine above you and you will now walk towards this light and no longer pay attention to the discomfort of the path because your eyes are only directed heavenwards. A downward path is a danger, a level path unsuccessful.... Only a path which leads upwards can lead you humans to the aim for the sake of which you cover the earthly path. For this aim can only be reached through overcoming and arduous striving. You must be active of your own free will and thereby provide the evidence that you want to escape from the lord of the abyss and enter the kingdom which belongs to Me, and that you consciously take everything upon yourselves in order to reach Me. And then you will truly also receive the strength and even overcome the seemingly insurmountable obstacles. For your will, which now openly professes itself for Me Whom it once resisted, will give you this strength....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers