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1754 Revelation of God's extraordinary grace....

December 28, 1940: Book 27

If you visualize the extraordinary grace that the lord Himself condescends to you and teaches you His wisdom you will have to sing His praises and honour and thank Him without ceasing. However, you will never be able to fully appreciate this grace, for you do not know how immeasurably high He stands above you earthly children and what abundance of love prompts Him to take care of the beings who are tiny creatures in relation to Him. And that is why you accept this great grace so calmly and often do not appreciate it according to love. And it is often only a momentary surge where the greatest delight should make the human being shudder. But God constantly sends this grace to people in order to give them the opportunity to ascend, in order to reduce the beings' great distance from Himself. He therefore gives His word to people on earth, He allows them to become listeners to this word, He makes knowledge accessible to them which is not of this world.... He opens up an area to them which cannot be entered earthly, i.e. there will be no teacher on earth who can give full information about it unless he has previously drawn this knowledge from the very same divine source. And the more a person desires this knowledge, the richer he will be given, the more he will be allowed to receive. But this grace is so immeasurable that it is understandable that it must be a blessing to mankind. God will never offer anything to the world that could lose its value or ever be called less useful. What is of God must also stand the test of time and eternity. His word cannot be weakened by men, even if times pass. The fact that God embodies Himself again in the earthly children who willingly serve Him is so powerful that you humans are unable to grasp it.... The fact that He lovingly bends down to them and shows them the most practicable path upwards is a work of immense mercy, for He thereby does more than the beings deserve. In His love He overlooks the human being's apostate will and only sees his weakness. And thus He comes to meet them with an effective means, He tells them what is not right and advises them what they should do.... He imparts an extraordinary gift of strength to those who are not completely opposed to Him.... He shares divine grace with those who ask Him from the bottom of their hearts. He reveals Himself to them, He makes Himself known, He is close to earth, and anyone who wants to establish contact with Him will also receive the evidence of His closeness, of His strength and His love.... For He wants to be recognized by them, He wants to be desired by them, and He then also wants to hand out according to this desire.... He wants to shorten the beings' earthly path, for once they have found the lord they no longer need the burden of the body on earth and can therefore conclude their earthly life as long as they comply with divine will of their own accord and thus live in a way that is pleasing to God.... And this is what the lord aims to achieve through this great grace, that people, in order to become worthy of it, endeavour to live their life according to the divine word so that He can then reward them with truly divine gifts.... that He can give them the knowledge of His love, His omnipotence and His wisdom and this signifies light and strength for people, thus the state of the being still on earth becomes a freer one and it therefore approaches redemption....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers