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7305 "I am the way, the truth and the life.... "

March 12, 1959: Book 77

No human being has life unless he receives it from Me.... for I am the life and from Me all life emanates. At the beginning of his embodiment the human being still belongs far more to death, and he shall first attain true life on earth. He has to take a certain path for this, and this path is again Me Myself.... He has to accept the truth from My hand, because I am also the eternal truth. And thus there is only one path to truth and life, and this path is called Jesus Christ, for every human being must first be redeemed by Him if he wants to attain eternal life. This is why I came to earth in the human being Jesus Myself to show people the path, to lead the way, which everyone should only follow Me, thus to attain life in truth. However, before they are redeemed by Jesus Christ they still walk in the night of death, they don't know the truth, they don't know the right path which leads to life, and if they knew it they wouldn't have the strength to walk it..... But Jesus Christ gives them this strength, He guides them and sets them free from death so that they can enter into blissful life. This is why I said: "I am the way, the truth and the life...." Without Me no-one can attain truth and life, for as long as he does not have Me as his guide he takes a different path which certainly does not lead from death to life. But the human being must also want to reach life, and he must fight against the one who tries to keep him in death, who will do everything to prevent him from finding the right path, the path to life. The human being must want to live himself and turn to the lord of life, asking Him for strength and guidance, because he alone is too weak to travel this path. For the path goes upwards and requires strength.... the path is arduous and not tempting, and therefore it also requires the person's firm will to cover it for the sake of the goal. For the goal is glorious: the goal is a life of bliss, of light and strength and freedom.... But no human being needs to despair or be afraid that he will lack strength if only he turns to Jesus Christ, to the one in Whom I Myself walked the earth in order to redeem you humans from sin and death, from weakness and darkness.... Whoever turns to Him turns to Me, if only he believes that I am the way, the truth and the life.... if only he believes that only one can give life, Who Himself is lord over life and death.... and when I speak of "life", I speak of the life that lasts forever, not of the short earthly life that was given to you only for the purpose of acquiring eternal life.... I want you to live for eternity and for this life of yours to be a blessed one, but you must take the path via Jesus Christ and you will most certainly attain life in all freedom and truthfulness, you will be united with Me again as it was in the beginning, you will live forever and now no longer lose this life....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers