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God's will or permission.... free will....

God's will is decisive for every event in the world, even if it is caused by human will. Only what God wants or what He allows can happen or be carried out, and yet man is responsible for his will. God knows both about the will of man since eternity and also about the effect of it, and yet He does not prevent people from putting their will into action, but according to these deeds His will also intervenes so that the salvation of the soul can be promoted thereby. Earthly events usually also have an earthly effect, and the fact that God allows these earthly effects is often incomprehensible to people. But God's concern is for people's souls.... where these are in danger, He intervenes, but only in such a way that people's will nevertheless remains unaffected. He does not prevent them from carrying out their deeds, even if they are evil, i.e. only born out of unkindness. And this makes people doubt the existence of a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence. But a violent intervention will make them doubt this existence in exactly the same way, for as long as they do not realize that people's freedom of will may not be curtailed if they are to become what they are meant to be, they will not understand that God's intervention is only necessary for the sake of spiritual development, for once again they will only look at earthly events and their effect on earthly life.

(8.5.1942) But it is always divine will that everything that happens can somehow benefit the soul.... that therefore, although the body is in danger, the soul can remain unharmed or derive great spiritual advantages from it, depending on its will. God's love for His living creations is so great that He truly would not allow anything to happen which would hinder people's ascent upwards, which is the meaning and purpose of earthly life. But on the other hand He also allows the opposing power every opportunity to develop so that free will decides for itself. If this free will is turned towards evil, He will nevertheless not make the human being unfree because this would be contrary to divine order. However, in accordance with this will turned towards evil, He now allows what this will has caused to take effect. And the effects must indeed be extremely painful on earth if they are to result in spiritual progress, otherwise humanity would not learn to detest evil and would fall prey to this power more and more. The spiritual state of people is decisive as to whether and when God Himself intervenes and puts an end to the activity of the evil forces. If people's will turns to God, then the power of evil is broken and it finds no place where it can work successfully.... God does not hinder it, but people themselves can hinder it, and consequently they themselves, through their consent or rejection, promote or hinder what happens. Bad deeds can never be God's will, but they can only be carried out if His will does not oppose them.... And thus He allows that which is caused by people's own will so that they change their own will as a result and thus come closer to their actual goal, i.e. turn towards God. However, this does not exclude God Himself from intervening if He deems it necessary.... For even the activity of the evil power is subject to limits which it must not exceed.... But if the human will is still turned towards it, then the divine intervention will also have an extremely painful earthly effect on people, for once again it is the soul which is in danger and which is to be liberated by this intervention. Hence, if only world events and their effect on earthly life are taken into account, it will hardly be recognized by people that God's will is decisive, and consequently God will be rejected by those who do not grant earthly life a deeper meaning and purpose because they cannot recognize a wise and loving guidance which wants to achieve an approach to Himself through suffering and tribulation while respecting people's freedom of will....

Amen

BOŽJA VOLJA ILI DOPUŠTENJE.... SLOBODNA VOLJA....

Božja volja je presudna za svaki događaj u svijetu, čak i kad je on potaknut ljudskom voljom. Samo ono što Bog hoće ili što On dopusti može se dogoditi ili biti sprovedeno, pa i pored toga čovjek je odgovoran za svoju volju. Bog zna od vječnosti kako volju čovjeka tako i njene posljedice, pa opet, On ne sprječava ljude da svoju volju sprovode u djelo, no u skladu s tim djelima intervenira i Njegova volja tako da duševni spas (dobrobit) time može biti podržan. Zemaljsko događanje najčešće se zemaljski i odražava, a da Bog te zemaljske posljedice dopušta, ljudima često nije shvatljivo.

No Božja briga usmjerena je na duše ljudi.... Gdje su one u opasnosti, On intervenira, no samo na takav način da volja ljudi i pored toga ostaje nedodirnuta. On ih ne sprječava u izvođenju njihovih djela, čak i kad su zla, tj. ako se rađaju samo iz neljubavnosti. A to čini da ljudi dvojbe postojanje Boga Ljubavi, Mudrosti i svemoći. Nasilna intervencija bi isto tako učinila da oni dvojbe to samo postojanje, jer sve dok ne shvate da se sloboda volje ne smije ukinuti ako žele postati ono što bi trebalo da budu, neće ni razumjeti da je Božja intervencija potrebna samo za duhovni razvoj; jer će promatrati samo zemaljske događaje i njihove učinke na zemaljski život.

(8 Svibnja 1942) Ali uvijek je Božanska volja da sve što se događa na bilo kakav način duši može biti od koristi.... Da dakle čak kad je tijelo u opasnosti, duša može ostati neugrožena ili iz toga izvući velike koristi, već s obzirom na njenu volju. Ljubav Boga prema Njegovim stvorenjima je tako velika, da On uistinu ne bi dopustio da se dogodi išta što bi ljudima bilo prepreka na putu uspona, a to je smisao i svrha zemaljskog života. No s druge strane On pušta i protusili svaku mogućnost za razvoj, kako bi se slobodna volja sama odlučila. Ako je ta slobodna volja naklonjena zlu, On ljude i pored toga neće učiniti neslobodnima, pošto bi to bilo protiv Božanskog reda. No toj zlu okrenutoj volji On sukladno dozvoljava i posljedice toga što je ta volja prouzročila. A te posljedice moraju doduše biti zemaljski izrazito pune patnje, (k)ako bi za sobom povlačile duhovni napredak, inače čovječanstvo ne uči odustajati od zla i sve više bi potpadalo toj sili.

Duhovno stanje ljudi je odlučujuće za to da li i kada Sam Bog intervenira i staje na kraj lošim silama. Okreće li se volja ljudi Bogu, onda je sila zla slomljena, i ona ne nalazi mjesto gdje može uspješno djelovati.... Bog ju ne sprječava, no sami ljudi ju mogu omesti, i posljedično tome oni su sami putem svoje suglasnosti ili pak odbijanja povoljni ili ometajući čimbenik za to što se događa. Loša djela nikada ne mogu biti Božja volja, no ona mogu biti izvedena samo ako se Njegova volja ne postavi protiv njih.... Pa tako On dopušta ono što sama volja ljudi pobudi, kako bi oni putem učinka svoju volju sami promijenili i tako došli bliže svom stvarnom cilju, tj. okrenuli se Bogu.

No to ne isključuje da Bog Sam intervenira, ako On to smatra potrebnim.... Jer i djelovanju loše sile su postavljene granice, koje ona ne smije preći.... Ali ako joj je ljudska volja još naklonjena, onda će se i Božanska intervencija za ljude zemaljski krajnje mučno odraziti, jer opet je duša to što je u opasnosti i putem te intervencije treba biti oslobođena. Ako se obraća pažnja samo na svjetovne događaje i njihove rezultate na zemaljski život, onda će teško od strane ljudi biti priznato da je odlučujuća Božja volja, i posljedično će Bog biti odbacivan od strane onih koji zemaljskom životu ne pripisuju nikakav dublji smisao niti svrhu, pošto oni nisu prepoznali mudro i Ljubav-no vodstvo, koje kroz patnju i muku želi postići približavanje k Sebi uz poštovanje slobode volje ljudi....

AMEN