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7870 Devotion to God.... knowing Jesus Christ....

April 12, 1961: Book 82

How easy and carefree is your path through life if you take it by My hand, if you walk it in constant company of Me, if you only ever entrust yourselves to Me and let Me take care of you. Then you will also surely reach your aim, for you will truly not take the wrong path by My hand.... Heartfelt devotion to Me also guarantees that I will be your constant guide and companion, for where a heart of love beats towards Me I will no longer give way, for there My adversary has lost his right.... even though he will again and again try to present the world's charms to you in order to turn you away from Me again. Yet anyone who is seized by My love, who makes it possible for My love to shine upon him, no longer desires the world and its pleasures.... He has found other goods which are worth striving for, and he no longer turns his gaze back but steadfastly upwards where he sees Me and now strives towards Me with all his senses.... The devotion to Me must have taken place, then the human being has also passed his test of will, then his will has confessed Me, then the path of return has finally been taken, which is guaranteed to end with Me.... And therefore I will promise you My constant presence if only you are willing to possess it, for then you will give Me your will and I will now never leave you again. Thus it need not mean an act of violence to acquire Me and My kingdom if only you give yourselves to Me in love.... But he will have to use force who still lacks love for Me, who still belongs to the world and therefore has to fight against the desire for the world.... A long time can pass until he has established the intimate bond with Me, although I also pursue him with My love and again and again try to capture him.... But I do not force his will, and he often still takes the path of worldly pleasures and joys which leads downwards and is repeatedly presented to the human being by My adversary as appealing until he frees himself from his desires of his own accord, until he turns his eyes towards Me and demands that I take him by the hand and guide him upwards.... It is always only a matter of your serious will, which must arise in the heart and cannot be replaced by mere words.... It is about the human being changing, that his nature, which until now was determined by My adversary, now allows itself to be determined by Me, that the human being enters into My will, that he fulfils the fundamental law of love, that he inserts himself into the eternal order again and thus takes on his original nature.... It is a matter of him no longer offering resistance when My love beams at him, i.e. that he consciously opens himself, that he desires to enter into contact with Me again and to possess My love which he had once rejected. Then he consciously acknowledges Me, and he also recognizes the former sin of apostasy.... But all this is not possible if he has not found the divine redeemer Jesus Christ.... For He alone gives him the strength to turn away from My adversary and towards Me.... It is He alone Who will then lead you by the hand, for He and I are one.... And the turning towards Me must therefore take place in Him, because otherwise you would never have the strength to separate yourselves willfully from the adversary.... For this lack of strength was the consequence of the great sin of turning away from Me, which has now only been atoned for through Jesus.... thus your weakness of will could only be strengthened by Him to turn away from My adversary and towards Me again, Who will now take you by the hand and truly lead you to the right aim. And if your will has decided in favour of Me, then you also belong to those redeemed through Jesus' blood, you have found Him and recognized Me Myself in Him.... The heartfelt devotion to Me is also connected with the living faith in Jesus Christ, because you now brightly and clearly recognize His mission and are no longer able to separate Me from Him.... For devotion to Me takes place in love, and love is the light which now shines through you again, as it once did.... Without love you will not find the path to Me, without love you will not seek union with Me.... But love binds us together again eternally, love recognizes that you must join Me if you want to be eternally happy.... and love urges you towards Me, Who will now never ever let you go...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers