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6393 Recognizing God's love in creation....

November 6, 1955: Book 68

No human being knows the omnipotence of divine love.... No human being understands its fullness and therefore also God's strength and power, yet it is constantly expressed in His creation, which demonstrates infinite love, wisdom and omnipotence. For this reason creation alone should make you humans reverently remember Him Who brought it into being.... And you should look up to Him in deepest humility.... But you mostly walk thoughtlessly past everything that should be a sign of God's presence for you.... You take everything for granted which should be considered a greatest miracle, and therefore God's love and wisdom remain hidden from you and your faith in God is lifeless. Yet His love is so infinite that it also works despite your indifference, that it constantly lets new creations arise, for one day you will recognize what lies at the basis of His creative activity.... And then you will tremble at the thought of not having recognized and valued divine love when you were still on earth as human beings.... For to recognize God's love and to devote yourselves to it means to be able to work full of love yourselves and to become free of all faults and imperfections.... Divine love expresses itself so obviously in creation so that you humans will recognize it and voluntarily allow yourselves to be permeated by it. Receiving divine love is like the transformation of a weakened being into strength. You have to be permeated by God's strength in order to be able to be powerful yourselves, and this strength is God's love which constantly draws you humans and only requires your willingness to let it draw you. If you are now first of all aware that the creator wanted to prove His love to you through everything He let come into being, then the love for Him must also flare up in you, and then His divine flow of strength of love will also flood into your heart and you will ascend to the top.... You should only learn to love God, which you can do when you look at His creations which prove His love and His wisdom.... Therefore you should not walk through the world with closed eyes, you should look at that which was not brought about by human will, which came forth from the strength of a creator Whom you cannot see but can nevertheless recognize, Who did not let anything come into being without meaning and purpose and therefore must be full of wisdom.... and Who let creation come into being for you because He loves you infinitely.... Although you cannot know the cause of creation and your own relationship to it as long as you thoughtlessly observe everything around you, you can attain this knowledge as soon as you reflect and enter into a bond with the creator. If you learn to love Him and entrust yourselves to Him in the recognition of His might and power, in the awareness of His greater than great love.... Then you will be cared for by Him and provided with everything you lack.... You will receive light, i.e. attain knowledge about yourselves and about your aim.... And you will learn to look at everything with different eyes because you will open yourselves to God's love which can now work in you. And you will be filled with love yourselves, because God's love is a strength which brings you to life, and to live also means to love.... His life overflows into you who accept His love.... And you must come alive yourselves and ignite love in yourselves as soon as you are in contact with Him. The light of love ignites from His flame of love and will never go out again. And God's love will pursue you, and no matter how low you have sunk, no matter how long you persist in resistance.... It will not give you up, but it will not force you. Yet how much more blessed you could be if you let yourselves be permeated by His love without resistance.... For it is possible for you to recognize Him and His love because you live in the midst of a creation which manifestly demonstrates His love, His wisdom and His power....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers