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7204 Servants called by God in the vineyard....

November 8, 1958: Book 76

Anyone who decides to work for the kingdom of God has completed the return to God, even though he does not yet need to have reached the highest perfection he can achieve on earth.... But he has taken the return path to God and also offered Him his will to cooperate and in all humility himself.... And God will now eternally no longer leave him out.... But the prerequisite is an earnest will to act.... Working for the kingdom of God requires such a serious will to cooperate in the vineyard of the lord, it requires a degree of realization of humanity's spiritual hardship, and this degree of realization is the result of a life of love without which no human being will ever seriously offer himself to work in the vineyard. Yet people can declare themselves willing for self-interested reasons, that is, they are also willing to serve God but still lack the right realization of what God requires for such service. These are the servants who call themselves for the sake of the 'calling'.... who are not yet alive enough to recognize what work awaits a true co-worker of God and what prerequisites must be present in order to be able to fulfil God's requirements. The spiritual hardship of his fellow human beings should not make a true servant of God think of his own needs, for as soon as he himself is already in the light of realization he also knows that all his needs and worries are in the hands of Him Whom he is willing to serve.... that He cares for His servants like a good householder.... And therefore He can only apply all His care and strength to the need of His fellow human beings and help them to come to the light.... And then he will carry out his vineyard work with all diligence and also achieve success, but this is not the case with those who think too much of their own needs and do not yet have a right relationship with Him, Who cares for His children like a father, Who Himself said: "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.... everything else will be added to you...." A true vineyard labourer will therefore no longer have any great worldly ties, only the spiritual condition of his fellow human beings will be his purpose in life, i.e. he will see his task in bringing light to those who are still darkened in spirit.... he will feel obliged as a vineyard labourer to be constantly active for his lord, he will, as it were, have finished with the earthly world and only live for God and His kingdom.... even though the earthly world still makes demands on Him which he cannot escape. He will therefore be so eager in his activity because he feels called by God Himself, even though he freely offered himself to Him for service. Such a calling will only ever be felt by the human being who, through loving activity, established the bond with the eternal love and thereby also heard Its 'call' and bowed down to It. Now the light of realization could be kindled in him and now he also recognized his task, which consisted of his 'service for the lord'.... And he now seeks to fulfil this task with all diligence, and he now works among his fellow human beings in a living way as a co-worker, as a faithful servant who only ever carries out his lord's will and whose work will therefore be blessed....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers