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0494 Closeness of the lord.... childlike trust.... simple form....

July 4, 1938: Book 10

The days of your life will pass in regular activity so that you will never have to worry about your physical well-being, for you will always be given what you need for life on earth. Yet in all your activity you must never forget the lord.... what is around you will pass away but what is above you will remain for eternity. And that is why the salvation of your soul alone should be important to you as long as you live on earth. The saviour is always with you, therefore you should always try to make yourself worthy of His presence. It is up to you humans to approach the lord full of trust or to stay far away, but the one who seeks the lord's closeness will always be at an advantage, for the saviour receives him in all love.... He rejoices in every child who seeks Him and comes to Him with childlike trust. And without hesitation He will take such a child to His heart and make it partaker of all graces and heavenly joys. He will impart all wisdom to him.... He will give him light and irradiate him with His sun of grace and gladden his heart in every way. And every good work that this child does bears witness to his good will. But where the lord recognizes the good will, He comes to meet the earthly child with all help and grace and takes care that this child remains His. He will give him the most distant vision so that his spirit will dwell far above the earth and, although he still dwells bodily on earth, he will turn back into the spheres of the eternal spiritual beings.... Help will be offered to it from there when the earthly child is less able to cope with the demands made on it by spiritual life. For this is their task to consider every earthly being with utmost strength once it has found the realization of an eternal God.... When the lord Himself expresses Himself He always does so in the simplest form, for the earthly child should never be inhibited in its childlike trust.... and that it finds simple words to the father as His most faithful, most devoted and most loving child. And this child will then be richly provided for.... it will never need to live in want, neither physically nor emotionally. It must only long for the father with all its heart.... it must not shy away from any effort and accept every adversity on earth patiently and devotedly, as if it were imposed on it by the father.... it must recognize that all these are only useful for the salvation of its soul and therefore only ever a proof of love from the divine saviour.... Then it will surely reach its goal.... he will take the lord into his heart and never leave Him, Who will not abandon His child for eternity....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers