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6802 Life and death.... longing for God's love....

April 9, 1957: Book 73

In a world of hatred and unkindness you should long for My love which will never be withheld from you, which you can receive from Me at any time because only your will is needed to accept it.... You should long for My warmth of love because you live in the coldest environment which is not suitable to give life or to sustain life but is like a tomb of death where everything that is still alive also comes to death. You should flee to Me of your own accord, to My heart, so that you are safe in My love. But only a few remember the one Who is always ready for them, Who wants to give them love in abundance. And only these few will come to life and also keep life. For only love guarantees life, but lack of love also means certain death. I would like to embrace all of you with My love so that you could arise to life, I would like to give all of you what you are so desperately lacking: a love in whose glow everything that has solidified comes to life. But as long as you still resist Me, as long as you don't let yourselves be embraced by My love, you will also remain in a state of rigidity of death and you will never be able to come to life. But the world is still capable of suffocating every little spark of love, for My adversary reigns in it, who is completely devoid of love and also does everything in his power to imprint his nature in you, who incites people against each other and only ever impels them to think unkindly. And people are hostile towards each other, they try to take advantage of each other, they strengthen selfish love and will only ever strive for self-interest but never serve their neighbour in selfless love.... They are in the midst of the world but do not fight against its dangers, they let themselves be driven willy-nilly by the one who is without love.... And they don't think of Me, Who in infinite love follows people's goings-on and wants to help them to leave the area of death and turn towards life. And only love will ever achieve this, only love will give life and truly make people happy, for unkindness will never be able to provide true happiness. And it should truly not be a question for you humans Who can give you true happiness. You should not look for it in the world but in Me, Who is love and life from eternity and can truly also give you life if you allow Me to radiate My love into you, if you no longer resist it yourselves but voluntarily open your hearts to Me, if you come to Me yourselves and desire to be safe in My love. And from that moment on you will also feel the life within you, you will truly be reborn because My flame of love has also ignited in you and everything that was dead in you will come to life. And now you indeed still live in the midst of the world but yet no longer in the realm of death, and your warmth of love is also able to give life to the dead, which you embrace and want to snatch from its rigidity of death. For the fire of love has great strength, and a loving person is able to carry out great rescue work even in seemingly dead territory. For a loving person is always in contact with Me and thus also constantly draws this strength.... Thus he can also turn My love to the numb as a mediator where I Myself cannot find access.... Yet My fountain of love is inexhaustible and blessed those who come to it themselves, who want to come to life and therefore take refuge in My proximity in order to escape death.... Their hope of finding life with Me will never be disappointed, for I spread My arms in ardent love and draw all to My heart who suffer from the unkindness of their fellow human beings, who long for love and therefore press towards Me, Who now truly also kindles the spark of love in their hearts to the highest fervour....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers