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6451 Using of the last grace in free will....

January 13, 1956: Book 69

You are free to avail yourselves of the unusual supply of strength which is given to you in the last days, even though you do not desire it. I grant you mercy for justice, I shower you with the evidence of My love, I help you to ascend effortlessly if you still want to undertake it.... And I give you the assurance that you will still reach the aim as soon as you are serious about it.... You don't know that I perform a work of mercy on you which can still save you if only you muster the will to take hold of My saving hand.... I do everything to save you from the dreadful fate of a new banishment, but one thing I cannot do.... to determine you to accept My immense gift of grace.... You have to do this of your own accord, but strength and grace are abundantly at your disposal because there is not much time left until the end.... Yet you don't appreciate the grace that I speak to you Myself, that every one of you is allowed to hear Me, that I approach every one of you like a father to his child and warn and admonish it and reveal Myself to it in My love. But it is as if you close your ears and eyes in order not to see and hear what is going on around you.... It is as if you lack the right senses.... you can no longer think correctly and always want the wrong thing, you walk your path in complete blindness, and if a hand offers you guidance you push it back, you unwillingly reject anyone who wants to help you, and your father has to watch you voluntarily running to your ruin.... But no matter how eagerly My love wants your salvation, I do not determine your will.... And therefore it is every person's own business how he still uses the short time until the end.... But he still has every opportunity to escape eternal death, he only has to want his earthly life to lead to the aim for which he received it. If only every person could muster the will not to live in vain then this would already be a step towards ascent, yet people have other aims.... and these aims fill their whole thinking and wanting. They lust for possessions, for recognition and sensual enjoyment.... They strive for everything they should learn to overcome in earthly life. They live in completely wrong thinking and are inaccessible to every instruction of their actual earthly life. And thus My rich treasure of grace is not taken into account, they pass by what is offered to them for their salvation.... And the darkness which is spread over the earth grows ever greater.... But it is people's own fault, for although My adversary works in an unheard-of way, because his last time has come, people could free themselves from his power, because the gifts of grace flow just as abundantly, which would impart strength to every person in order to be able to resist him.... But it is about a free decision of will; it is about which lord you choose.... And no-one may force you to make this decision of will, you must make it freely, and therefore you also determine your fate in free will after the death of your body.... You don't need to get lost, but you must want your life yourselves.... That is why I repeatedly let My voice sound from above, that is why I repeatedly approach you in the word. And I pour out My grace on you in abundance.... But how you use it is up to you....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers