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7845 Deepening into the word of God....

March 8, 1961: Book 82

What leads you towards perfection is repeatedly announced to you through My word: You should work on your soul, you should bring it to maturity as long as you walk the earth as a human being.... You should change your nature into love. For you lack love as long as you do not turn to Me and open yourselves for My illumination of love. And therefore I speak to you again and again, and it should always be your desire to hear Me, you should desire the 'word of God' and again and again take time to immerse yourselves in My word, be it by reading or listening to My word of God or also by intimate thoughts which have Me as their content.... You should connect with Me as often as possible.... and your earthly course will truly not be in vain. As long as you let Me speak to you, you will also know My will, you will know My teaching of love, My lawful order; you will know your purpose of earthly life, and you need only take My word to heart, think it through and live it out according to My will.... And then you will also carry out the work of the soul, you will help it to perfection and make use of the blessings with which I abundantly shower you. Thus you will then live a spiritual life next to your earthly life, which will also make demands on you but which can be easily led if you think of the soul's life first, because its maturing is the actual purpose of earthly life. But anyone who never lets Me Myself speak to him, who never desires the 'word of God', his life will be an idle one, and his soul will not have taken a step in its higher development at the end, for it has only lived out its earthly life and the soul has not gained any advantage, it is on the same level as at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being and will enter the kingdom of the beyond in a dark state if it has the grace to be called away before the end.... which can therefore be called a grace because it still has the opportunity to mature in the spiritual kingdom if its resistance then is not the same as on earth.... But if it still lives on this earth until the end without having changed beforehand, its fate will irrevocably be a new banishment into matter, because then there will no longer be a possibility to ascend in the beyond; for then the gates will be closed there too and a separation of spirits will occur.... as it is proclaimed. For this reason every person should let himself be addressed by Me so that he will become aware of the seriousness of his situation.... he should seek to know My will and submit himself to this will of his own accord, and he will truly still be saved, because I will not let a soul fall whose good will I recognize, whose resistance against Me subsides and which listens to Me when I speak to it. Only the human being should ask himself why he lives on earth.... He should try to fathom the purpose of earthly life and will always be assisted by Me so that it will be fulfilled.... He will be addressed by Me in various ways so that his soul will be touched and begin to work on itself. And it should only be willing to work with love.... Then the right realization will truly come to it, then it will also seek and find the bond with Me, and earthly life will not be lived in vain, because I will certainly help where the soul itself is still too weak, and with My help it will certainly reach its aim. Therefore don't shut yourselves off when I want to speak to you, for I have many ways and many means to address you, only you should not resist Me, for I will not violently break it, yet then you will be in great danger.... But I want you not to perish; I want you to gain eternal life and will therefore never leave you without help...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers