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0583 Inner humility.... fright and panic for the obstinate....

September 14, 1938: Book 12

Above all, take care that you do not fall into the error of valuing yourselves higher than you are in relation to the deity.... This will always mean a lack of love for God, for only those who feel small can find the highest concept of love in God and become a true child of God. It is still up to man to create his own relationship with the eternal deity.... The way he looks at himself will also be the way he acts towards the deity. A child with the right will can completely hand himself over to the father and can then only ever, under the influence of divine love, utilize earthly life powerfully for eternity.... Cast all your cares upon the lord.... If only you would take this to heart.... To know that there is one Who can avert everything.... and then to be able to make yourselves worthy of His help is a comforting thought that makes life on earth far easier to bear.... There is still time for inner repentance, for God's mercy and patience have no limits.... Time and again it tries to draw people's attention and intervenes here and there through strokes of fate in the ranks of people, so that everyone should pay attention to an invisible hand and a supernatural power.... Anyone who only ever gives a little space to such thoughts which point upwards will also find it easy to recognize, yet there are so many who cannot tear themselves away from the world even for moments.... who accept everything with the greatest matter-of-factness and never seek a spiritual explanation for all occurrences.... There it is unspeakably difficult for the spiritual beings to make contact with them in order to be able to work spiritually. In order to come to the aid of these countless souls, even worse things will have to happen on earth if a small spark of light is to light up for them and their thinking is to be stimulated. Behold, there the lord must intervene with increased power.... He must awaken the sluggish from their slumber and instruct them to do their work so that they do not perish in spiritual sluggishness. But even then only a small part of them will seize the lifeline and allow themselves to be guided by knowledge.... And so in the near future the obstinate will be exposed to nameless misery.... Terror and panic will reign among the sluggish, for all these are God's creatures.... He wants to save all of them from their misery and can only do so in such a way that the freedom of will in man remains inviolable. If the lord has expressed Himself so obviously and people carelessly pass by this call of mercy, then the gate of life will remain closed for them and their portion will be death and destruction, for they carelessly rejected God's love....

Now mankind has been given a clear picture of what will befall it at all times, and yet it has remained the same in its actions and behaviour because it does not respect the word of God for what it is.... But when this word will be fulfilled, then there is still the opportunity to repent, and you will be accepted in the last hour.... Therefore, when the Lord speaks to you, open your eyes and ears and pay attention to His words.... For His word is truth and life....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers