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6180 Voluntary return to God in love....

January 30, 1955: Book 66

I want to accept all of you, if only you come to Me of your own accord. I truly do not want to reject you, for I await you full of love, and My aim is that you unite with Me eternally.... Therefore I Myself will also come to meet you as soon as I only recognize the will in you that you also want to come to Me. You have been distant from Me for an endlessly long time already.... and you will remain so for as long as you yourselves do not desire My closeness, for the desire to approach Me must come from you.... I Myself am always ready to accept you, yet My will, My love for you is not decisive for the bond between us, but your love must push you towards Me, for you once surrendered love, you renounced love, while My love for you remained the same unchanged. So I did not push you away from me, but you yourselves strove away from Me.... And so you must strive towards Me again of your own accord, and you will find no resistance from Me but only ever greater support.... precisely because I love you and long for your return to Me. If you now know that I pay attention to every impulse in you which is meant for Me, then you can also confidently raise your hands to Me, for you only need to want Me to accept you, and you can already feel seized by My loving father's hand which now guides you on the right path.... Only your will must be directed towards Me, then you can also believe with conviction that you will reach the aim.... the connection with Me. For I only need this will of yours in order to direct everything in such a way that it is conducive to your beatification.... But this will must be serious, not only expressed through words.... because I see into your heart.... Do not forget that your purpose of earthly life is only the connection with Me striven for in free will.... Do not forget that I am always ready to draw you to me, that you only have to declare your readiness to Me likewise.... But then you can be unconcerned.... you will reach the aim, you will fulfill the purpose of your earthly life.... For then you will have taken the path that leads to the father's house, to the eternal home, which you once left voluntarily and therefore must now voluntarily return to, in order to now be eternally blessed in My vicinity....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers