0843 Disregarding the commandments.... fulfilling the expressed will of God....

April 2, 1939: Book 17

You must not disregard the lord's commandments. You are in an incomparably dangerous situation which you cannot escape at will if you don't obey the divine commandments, and even if you believe but don't prove this faith by willingly following the lord's instructions, this faith is of no use because it is only outwardly accepted but not rooted in the heart. Thus you believe yourselves to be protected by the lord, and this is also assured to you at all times, but if you waver in your faith you will lose divine protection, for it is precisely your profound faith which guarantees this. But anyone who forsakes the lord by not persevering in faith must also be forsaken by the lord, and he will have to travel difficult paths until the lord turns to him again. Contact with the world is quite suitable to promote faithlessness. Let people go through life alone and they will find the way to the father much sooner than in contact with the world, where one would rather turn the other away from the right faith than try to win him over. And thus every step into the world is always a danger for a person of faith who has not found inner stability through intimate contact with the divine lord and saviour. And what suffering still lies ahead for these many who do not go into themselves and remain without realization of their life's task. If suffering were not sent to such people, years and years would pass in vain, for in the peace and tranquillity of daily life they could never come to realization and the voice from above would go unheard. Then people would need no help, no comfort and no instruction. All care for the soul would be an incomprehensible concept to them and would only strengthen their will to reject, the earth would offer them enough beauty and they would not need anything more. But when the transitoriness of all earthly comforts is made so clear to them, when their life only ever becomes heavy and unattractive through suffering and sorrow, then people look for a substitute which disappoints them less and also find it with the right spiritual attitude, i.e., as soon as they turn their backs on everything earthly and concern themselves with the question of spiritual life, with life after death. And now the process of a complete transformation begins when the human being has approached this problem. He will also always find the right answer if his will is to fulfil the divine commandements, if he recognizes them.... if he wants to do everything that corresponds to divine will, if this will is revealed to him. Hence every revelation is valuable and must also be complied with, for all spiritual threads are tied in such a way as to be of use to people on earth.... and if the earthly child does not fulfil the expressed will it has no claim on the father’s loving guidance, for it acts according to its own discretion and thus also has to bear the consequences of its way of acting. People are to be helped in all spiritual adversity, for earthly adversity can be called little if the state of the soul requires help. Earth's time of suffering will pass but the soul will take its suffering with it into eternity if it is not completed. Therefore remember it in prayer, so that the lord may strengthen it and give it the light of knowledge....

Amen

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