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8042 God's great love....

November 18, 1961: Book 85

Let yourselves be bestowed by Me, for My love for you is exceedingly great and only ever wants to give and make you happy. And I require nothing more from you than an open heart, that is, your will to accept gifts of love from Me. But then you will be abundantly provided for, I will provide for you spiritually and earthly.... everything you need for body and soul will be sent to you so that you can cover your earthly path with the success of being spiritually matured and having found unity with Me.... which is the purpose and aim of your existence on earth. Let yourselves be blessed by Me.... I want to pour out My blessings on you in abundance because you are weak and in need of help and because you would not be able to ascend without My help. But I want you to reach the height, I want you to become again what you were in the beginning: perfect beings who are unspeakably happy.... You are My share and therefore you shall also be united with Me. But you still keep yourselves distant from Me unless you voluntarily open your heart to Me and desire that I Myself take possession of you.... This will, this desire, must become active in you, and for this you need strength and grace, for you are still weak beings and you are still under My adversary's control as long as you have not yet consciously joined Me through your will.... And therefore My love constantly endeavours to approach you such that you let yourselves be touched by it.... or also, I constantly bestow gifts of love upon you so that you should turn towards the giver, for only then will these gifts of love be of value to you. I love you and only want you to feel My love, but this requires an opening of your heart, an inner willingness to receive My radiation of love. And you prove this to Me when you think of Me when you think of a God and creator from Whom you yourselves originated. Then your will is already directed towards Me and I use every such opportunity to convey gifts of love to you in whatever form this may take.... I bring My word close to you, I stir up the desire in you for the bond with the one Whom you acknowledge as your creator, and I mentally enlighten you or forward scriptures to you which correspond to the truth, or I bring you together with people with whom you can have spiritual conversations.... I take care of every individual and want to radiate love into his heart so that this love will be reciprocated and you will consciously strive for unity with Me, Who is eternal love. For I constantly want to give Myself away, I constantly want to make you, My living creations, happy, because I also constantly want to win your love in return, which again establishes the original relationship which signifies eternal bliss. And you can be certain that My love will never give up on you, that it will pursue you even if you still keep away from Me.... I will not rest until I have also won your love, for only reciprocated love makes you happy.... My love for you, however, never ceases because you came forth from My love.... And therefore I will never stop giving Myself to you.... I will never stop encouraging your return to Me.... I will constantly touch your hearts, and even if you close yourselves off.... once My strength of love will break through, you will voluntarily surrender to it, you will push towards Me in love, and the bliss of receiving and giving will have no end.... For My fundamental substance is love, and you, too, will return to your original state again, because I will not give you up, because I constantly pursue you with My love until you have become and remain Mine forever....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers