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8173 Establishing the right relationship with God....

May 9, 1962: Book 86

Only one thing is decisive for you, how you relate to Me, your God and creator of eternity, during your earthly life.... You can go through earthly life without any faith in Me, and then you will only move in material thinking, you will only move in the world which belongs to My adversary, and then you will also belong to him and also remain his property, because he has a right to you and your will alone also secures him this right.... And then you will put your earthly existence as a human being on hold in vain, you will not take a step upwards in your development but rather be in danger of sinking into the abyss again, because matter keeps you bound, because all your thinking and wanting applies to this matter and therefore it will also become your lot again.... that you will become matter again, which you had long since overcome.... But you can also learn to recognize your God and creator during your earthly life, you can believe in Him, you can recognize yourselves as having come forth from Him, and then you will also let your thoughts dwell in My kingdom more often.... you will reflect and have the will to walk the right path, you will consciously renounce all evil, you will want to be good, and thus you will now also direct your thoughts towards Me, your God and creator, Whom you recognize as father and desire to be united with Him.... And then you yourselves have granted Me the power to assert My right over you; then the world, i.e. earthly matter, no longer satisfies you, you then enter a path which leads into the spiritual kingdom.... you seek contact with Me and you will also establish it, because then I Myself will constantly intervene in your thoughts, because I will no longer leave you once you believe that you have emerged from the might and strength of the one Who is lord over heaven and earth, over life and death.... Then you will no longer sever your bond with this creator you have recognized, and you will also soon establish the right relationship with Him.... the relationship of a child with its father.... And then I will never let you leave Me again, then you will no longer be able to sink back into the abyss, then you will also successfully put your earthly life behind you, this will result in the upward development of your soul, you will mature and accomplish the change of nature in yourselves: You become love again and unite with Me as it was in the beginning.... Thus you yourselves choose and prepare your fate after your earthly life, which can be an exceedingly blissful one in the spiritual kingdom but also an inconceivably agonising state in bondage.... the renewed banishment in the works of creation on earth, so that you will nevertheless one day ascend again, so that you will not eternally remain in the state of death.... Time and again I present to you humans the responsibility you bear on earth and the fate you can face.... that you prepare it for yourselves through your will, but that I cannot necessarily guide this will of yours into the right direction. But time and again I find a way to instruct you of this.... Time and again I approach you and speak to you, and I also approach the worldly people and draw their attention in a different way to a power to Which they are also subject and Which they cannot deny if only they seriously think about it.... For I don't want one of My living creations to get lost, I don't want to prolong the state of torment but neither can I prevent them if they themselves strive towards it due to their wrong direction of will, due to their bond with My adversary, whom they too could truly recognize if only they seriously demanded the truth.... And time and again I will address people, no matter in what way; time and again I will make them aware of the transience of material goods and time and again reveal Myself to them.... Yet their will I will not force, for only free will can make the final decision.... to turn away from My adversary and return to Me, from Whom every being once took its origin....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers