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Wooing for the love of God....

Anyone who wants to win God's affection must court His love, thus do everything that is pleasing to Him. He must deeply unite with Him, long for the closest union with Him and only ever listen to the expression of His will which is, as it were, placed in his heart. To be loved by God is a state of bliss that is incomparable and is also only consciously felt by a few people. God's love is indeed meant for all His creations but its strength will be differently effective depending on the relationship between the creature and the creator. And therefore the human being himself must shape the relationship such that he is able to feel the strength of divine love. God is always ready for love, and the human being should make use of this and acquire His love through heartfelt devotion and acceptance of God's will. He should let himself be drawn by Him, he should give up all resistance, he should open himself to God's emanation of love in order to then be able to receive what will make him unspeakably happy. And all this requires complete surrender of the world with all its joys and goods.... furthermore, it necessitates the surrender of everything of earthly value to the human being, the sacrifice of all pleasing things in order to exchange them for God's love, which alone wants to fill the human being's heart. What you love on earth you must give away if you want to receive Him into your heart and enjoy His presence. And if you are able to sacrifice, God will reward you for your love.... And if you separate yourselves from covetous possessions for His sake, His eye will rest upon you with pleasure and you will feel His strength of love. And you will not regret it, for what you give you will receive back a thousand times over. God's love is a most delicious gift which allows nothing else to arise beside it, and it is up to you to receive this delicious gift when nothing else seems desirable to you and you only strive to be blissfully happy in union with God. Then your heart will be shaped to receive Him Who can already give you the highest happiness on earth and one day in eternity.... Then His love will belong to you, which you will feel in its strength....

Amen

O ZADOBIJANJU BOŽJE LJUBAVI

Tko želi zadobiti naklonost Božju, mora se umiliti Njegovoj ljubavi, dakle činiti sve što se Njemu dopada. Mora se sasvim duboko u unutrašnjosti spojiti sa Njime, mora žudjeti najprisnijem sjedinjenju s Njim i neprestano osluškivati očitovanje/izražaj Njegove volje, koja će mu na određeni način već biti postavljena u srce.

Biti voljen od Boga je stanje blaženosti/sreće, koje je neusporedivo [[sa ičim drugim]] i samo nekolicina ljudi doživljava ga svjesno. Božja ljubav važi/usmjerena je doduše svim Njegovim stvorenjima, ali ona se ispoljava različito u zavisnosti od odnosa u kojem se biće nalazi prema Stvoritelju. I zbog toga sâm čovjek mora oblikovati taj odnos tako da može biti sposoban osjetiti utjecaj Božanske ljubavi. Bog je stalno spreman na ljubav, a čovjek bi to trebao iskoristiti i zadobiti Njegovu ljubav putem duboke odanosti i spremnosti na Božju volju. Treba se od [[strane]] Njega dati kultivitati/odgajati, treba odustati od sveg otpora, treba se otvoriti zračenju Božje ljubavi, kako bi tada mogao primiti ono što će ga neizrecivo usrećiti. A sve to je uslovljeno potpunim odustajanjem od svijeta sa svim njegovim užicima i dobrima.... nadalje, uslovljeno je odustajanjem od svih onih zemaljkih blaga koja su čovjeku važna, žrtvovanjem svih stvari u kojima uživa, kako bi ih zamijenio za ljubav Božju, koja jedino želi ispuniti čovjekovo srce. Ono što na Zemlji volite, od toga morate odustati, želite li Ga primiti/prihvatiti u svoje srce i želite li uživati u Njegovom prisustvu. A onako kako budete u stanju žrtvovati, tako će vam Bog i nagraditi vašu ljubav. I ako se Njemu za ljubav odvojite od dobara za kojima žudite, On će vas milo (po)gledati, i osjetno ćete zapaziti struju Njegove ljubavi. I nećete zažaliti, jer ono što ste založili, tisućestruko će vam biti vraćeno. Ljubav Božja uistinu je neizmjeran poklon, koji se ne može usporediti s ničim drugim, a dobijanje/primanje tog poklona na vama je samima, samo ako vam se ništa drugo ne čini poželjnije i ako težite tome da u sjedinjenju s Bogom budete blaženi/sretni. Tada je vaše srce oblikovano za prijem Onoga Koji vam može načiniti najvišu sreću već na Zemlji i nakon toga u vječnosti.... Tada vam pripada Njegova ljubav, čiji utjecaj ćete osjetiti.

AMEN