0475 The task of small creatures and humans.... earthly and spiritual activity....

June 20, 1938: Book 10

You will draw an immeasurable blessing from your work, therefore continue steadfastly on this path and overcome all temptations of the evil one, for a child of God must be truly faithful and trusting if he wants to achieve great things. Today the lord will give you a gift that will give you strength. A pleading thought to your saviour will help you in every affliction, and so begin: An army of spiritual beings is tasked with creating the environment that makes your existence on earth possible again; consider this and then try to imagine how often the picture in nature changes.... How many things only exist for one day and then fall prey to destruction again.... how countless beings embody themselves differently again and again.... how grasses, flowers and fruits fulfil their purpose on earth and pass away.... in order to rise again to new life in a different form. This is a process that is repeated in the same way with humans, only over a much longer period of time. If the lord now sets these small beings and formations a task, either to please the eye of man or to serve nature, to support the development and to carry out all the small and smallest activities that are necessary in creation and that guarantee an everlasting existence.... it is already clear from this how much nobler and more comprehensive the human being's task on earth must be, how it should be fulfilled in the spirit of divine creation and serve the further perfection of every human being.... To utilize the short span of time, which encompasses even a long earthly life, in such a way that the actual purpose is fully complied with, is something that cannot be recommended to you seriously enough. In every situation in life the human being, from a purely earthly point of view, sees himself confronted with tasks which he should fulfil.... and he will also understand the necessity of these demands made of him; however, it does not seem so obvious to him that spiritual work is also incumbent upon him.... that he should fulfil it even more conscientiously and that the work assigned to him by God, his creator, should be precisely that which should occupy all his thinking and striving on earth.... This is not so tangible because it is purely spiritual, whereas the earthly task promises him material benefits.... Now earthly life goes its course without interruption.... whether the human being fulfils his assigned activity or not.... only for himself will the benefit be greater or lesser. In exactly the same way, a person's spiritual attitude will not be beneficial or detrimental to God's entire work of creation, but success or failure will only have an effect on his soul.... Physical well-being, which a person can increase or decrease with the task he fulfils on earth, is only a temporal concept; with bodily death everything that once served your well-being has become worthless and void.... But the soul cannot create an end to its situation at will.... It has to bear its state, whether completed or not, and it has to struggle unspeakably in suffering if it wants to improve its state, but it cannot end it arbitrarily if it does not suit it.... And therefore the human being should recognize how unspeakably important it is for him to live according to his actual purpose on earth and not strive for any other goal than to gather possessions for eternity....

Amen

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