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8226 The word inspires love activity....

July 28, 1962: Book 87

I rejoice in every child which consciously strives towards me, which strives to attain its maturity on earth and which connects with Me again and again to be permeated by My love. Because it will soon have reached its goal and be connected with Me for eternity. Then it will look back on an endless long course of development, and it will not be able to understand why it resisted My illumination of love.... It will only always desire My love and also experience it in excess, because it now recognizes its long resistance as a great sin and offense against My love and always only says thank you to Me for My assistance, for its salvation from the depths, and it will be blissfully happy.... I know about your great bliss in the state of perfection, and I therefore only help man that he reaches that state of perfection which earns him this bliss. The conscious striving for Me proves to Me his will, which has turned to Me again, as it once turned away from Me..... And this change of will is the right decision for the purpose of which man lives on earth and which determines his lot in eternity..... The conscious bond with me, which also entails the recognition of the work of redemption and the call of Jesus for forgiveness of guilt, is at the same time the recognition of myself, and so the sin of the former apostasy from Me is cancelled, and nothing more stands in the way of their return to me. But that you establish the conscious bond with Me, that you long for your God and creator within you, for your father from eternity, this is what My adversary tries to prevent again and again in order not to lose you, and you must therefore.... if you still walk through earthly life in ignorance.... be pointed out to your enemy; you must be shown the danger you are constantly in as long as I cannot exercise My right over your souls, which, however, requires the conscious bond with Me. And that is why therefore you are again and again pointed to your earth life purpose through My word, and that is why you must hear My word, no matter in which way.... so that you learn about My will and about the goings-on of My opponent, who still controls you, until this voluntary return to Me has taken place. And every man will be blessed who spreads My word and who makes it his business to bring a light into the darkness in which mankind walks if a light from Me, My divine word, is not imparted to them. That is why it is of special importance that a man strives towards Me in free will and can now be used by Me as mediator through whom I can now speak to men and announce My will to them. The voluntary devotion to Me must precede, otherwise it is impossible that I can speak to you through a human mouth. Because this must happen in a way that fellowmen are not forced to believe in Me and My work, in My word..... My word alone possesses the power to impress the listener that he follows the word, and he will then himself also recognize his outcome by the effect of My word and believe with conviction.... And the "word" is obeyed when My will is fulfilled, which is proclaimed to men through the word: when you lead a life in unselfish love and now therefore get to know the power of love, which again establishes the union with me, who am love Myself.... I only want to achieve the transformation of your being to love because then I will also have achieved everything.... because My goal alone is the return of you to Me and because this return presupposes a transformation of the being to love. Then you will also understand that I only ever preach My gospel of love to people when I address them Myself through My word.... that I only ever announce My will to them, which demands the fulfilment of My commandments of love.... and that you then also shape yourselves into My children, whose love for the father is now also the surest guarantee that the union already takes place on earth, for love alone is the bond which ties us together indissolubly.... love alone makes you divine beings again, who are now also blessed again without limit, as they were in the beginning....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers