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8659 Conscious voluntary commitment with God is bliss....

October 30, 1963: Book 91

I constantly seek to increase My living creations' beatitude, irrespective of their degree of maturity.... But the state of maturity is decisive whether they accept what I send to them in gifts of favour or reject them. My love light radiates incessantly into the whole infinity; it both touches the already perfect spiritual and constantly increases its happiness, but as it also radiates towards everything still wretched, only meets with resistance and therefore remains without effect. But where the resistance only decreases a little, the beingness feels a relief of its agony or fettering, which it has to endure until the resistance has completely subsided. And then it just needs to open itself willingly to My love illumination to be made happy by it and to ascend higher and higher, which also always results in increased influx of My love power. As soon as now My creature is again conscious of itself when it goes over earth as man or has also already entered the kingdom on the other side, then it has also established the union with Me and voluntarily opened itself to My love light ray, and then it will also feel the happiness, which My divine irradiation also has to prepare for it, because I always just want to make happy. And I will never now withdraw My love from My creatures and reduce their state of happiness when they once have entered this state. And therefore there can always only be an ascent; the state of happiness can always only increase as soon as the creature has consciously entered into union with Me. That is why this conscious union is what I try to achieve through means of most different kind, because until then the being can always fall back again, even if My love does everything to prevent it, but it cannot be forced, and the establishing of the union with Me is a completely free act of will.... It leads the being to beatitude, which constantly increases, but if it is not carried out then the being remains in an unhappy state and can remain in it for eternal times. But it is again and again illuminated by Me so that it gives up its resistance, only that the illumination remains ineffective with constant rejection. That is why you men do not know in what great responsibility you stand, because in earth life as man you have reached this degree that you consciously have to make the free decision of will, which can redeem you from all unhappiness, which can form you to a divine being, which now constantly stands in connection with Me and therefore can also constantly be illuminated by My love power. But exactly this test of will.... if it is passed.... is the great turning point in your being, on your path of return to Me. Your earth fate is so determined for every single man that he can pass this test of will.... But My opponent will do everything to prevent man to seek the union with Me, and that is why man has to pass a fight on earth, because he alone decides whether I or My opponent triumph over him; neither I nor My opponent force his will, but each only seeks to influence him, but man himself has to decide. And when you now know that you therefore also decide about your state, whether it remains unhappy or shapes itself into a happy one, you will also recognize the great responsibility in earth life, and you would then have to do everything to free yourselves from your opponent, what you now again can only when you ask for power from Me, and this request is already a connection with Me, which you only need to strengthen to win the victory over the opponent.... For I truly will not leave you without strength if only you request it from Me.... For then you open yourselves to My illumination of love power, and you have passed the most difficult test of will; you now stride upwards and will also never ever fall back once your union with Me has taken place in spirit and in truth.... For I only respect and value that which is deeply felt in the heart, while words alone are of no value before Me. Nevertheless, I will not rest in touching you again and again, for I will wrestle with My adversary for your souls until the death of your body, so that an endlessly long, wretched earthly walk through creation will not have been in vain for you; again and again I will let sparks of love light flash upon you on earth and also then still in the kingdom on the other side in order to make you, My living creations, give up your resistance and voluntarily turn your heart towards Me.... And every single being, every single soul, is a great gain for Me as soon as I can illuminate it again with My love.... And what I do not achieve in one earthly walk I will nevertheless surely achieve one day, because I give up no soul, which once came forth from Me, I pursue it with My love, and whether eternities pass by.... one day it will surely return to Me voluntarily...._>Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers