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4535 Feeding the soul.... God's care for the earthly....

January 10, 1949: Book 52

Do not only nourish yourselves earthly but remember your soul that it also needs food and more urgently than the body. You worry too much about your earthly well-being and don't consider that everything is invalid with the hour of death, but that tomorrow can already bring the end of your body's life and your anxious worry will then be completely useless. But what you have given to the soul it keeps, and that alone is the foundation of the new life in the kingdom of the beyond, it is the capital with which alone you can work. Again and again I want to point out to you that your earthly life will not last much longer and that you should seriously think about the time afterwards, that you provide for yourselves for this time, that you create an acceptable fate for yourselves for eternity. Live a life of unselfish neighbourly love and remember Me often, consciously unite with Me and appeal to Me for My support, and you will no longer need to worry earthly either, for then I will take care of you. How easy I make earthly life for you if only you want to accept My care and help, if you fulfil the conditions which let Me take care of you. You need not worry about earthly things if only you would care for your soul. It goes hungry and starves, while the body is provided with food and drink and all the pleasures of the world. Give food to the soul and offer it the bread and wine of life.... feed it with My word, for it hungers for it; give it spiritual food so that it will mature during earthly life, so that a weak, poorly nourished soul will not enter the kingdom of the beyond but the soul itself will be strengthened at the hour of death, so that it will easily detach itself from the body and enter the kingdom of light through the gate of eternity full of strength and light. You yourselves must help it to increase in strength and light, you must not pay so much attention to the body and its wishes but only satisfy the soul's desire and give it what it needs, then the body will also be nourished and receive what it needs. But one thing is necessary, that you provide the soul with food and drink so that it does not become incapable of the spiritual kingdom....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers