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6725 New Year's eve word....

December 31, 1956: Book 72

You will not find inner peace in the world, you will not find the bliss which is only granted to you in intimate unity with God, for peace and bliss is My gift to those people who press towards Me, who want to be given by Me.... The happiness the world offers you is only intoxication, a sham happiness which does not last and again and again leaves an emptiness in your hearts.... But anyone who has once found Me, whom I was able to make happy with My gifts, is fulfilled, and yet he always desires anew. The intimate bond with Me also has the effect that the human being feels carried, as it were, and the earthly world hardly touches him.... He is certainly still in the world but it can no longer dominate his thoughts, he passes through it and remains unimpressed by its attractions and lures, for he is in the ray of My sun of love and everything earthly is faded and ineffective in this glow. He has found what his soul was looking for, and he is happy in this certainty. But how few people have established this bond with Me, which already makes them aspirants of My kingdom already on earth.... People certainly all seek happiness, yet every person's striving for happiness only applies to the world, to earthly goods and therefore actually only to death, for this earthly world is dead because it is the kingdom of the one who opposes Me as an enemy of life. He seeks to keep everything in the state of death, whereas I want to give him life.... However, life cannot overflow onto the human being who has no bond with Me as yet, but the state of death will never earn the human being true peace and inner bliss either. Yet you could all create this blissful happiness for yourselves, because all people are allowed to come to Me in order to let Me bestow gifts upon them.... because I don't reject anyone or deny him My love, but these blissful gifts can only be obtained from Me Myself, thus anyone who wants to receive them must also come to Me Myself and thus turn his back on the world, because I am not to be sought and found in the world. The worldly person does not understand these words, but anyone who has already been addressed by Me also knows that they are not empty words which I speak to people.... The earthly world is only your sphere for a little while where you may stay, but it will not remain in existence because the time has come when a great change will take place. If only you humans would believe that you would make better use of the short time you still have left for the salvation of your soul.... if only you would give up now what will be taken away from you in a short time. You would gain an unspeakable amount if you could sacrifice now.... even if only worthless goods to which you attach too much value. You will never attain true peace in earthly life as long as you don't enter My circle of love, as long as you don't take the path to Me and completely hand yourselves over to Me so that I take over your further path of life and guide you to the aim. But this complete surrender to Me will give you a blissful peace which you can never find in the world.... I only want you to attain life and therefore I try to lure you away from the things which signify your certain death. For the world is not My kingdom, after all, I have spoken the words to you humans: "My kingdom is not of this world...." and anyone who wants to be accepted into My kingdom has to leave the world behind, he has to voluntarily turn away from it, he has to seek the heartfelt bond with Me and he will experience the peace and bliss of those who are inhabitants of My kingdom....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers