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Selfless service in every walk of life.... Poverty.... Willingness to give....

Everything you do you should do in the knowledge that you are carrying out divine will. Therefore you have to entrust all your thoughts, words and actions to Him, you have to request His blessing for this and entirely commend yourselves to His divine guidance.... you have to put His will completely in charge of your daily life, that is, you only need want your way of life to be pleasing to Him and always do your best to attain His love. Then you can neither speak nor do anything which opposes God and your life on earth will not be unsuccessful for your souls. You fulfil God’s will when the commandment of love becomes the guiding principle of your life, then you live up to the most important law and God will bless you, spiritually as well as worldly.

Your purpose on earth is to serve unselfishly and you can do so in every situation, irrespective of whether you are poor or wealthy, great or small, respected and powerful or inconspicuously weak.... You can always be of service providing you want to be of service. Every human being is offered ample opportunity to serve kindly and no one should believe to be in need of receiving help themselves and reduce their own resolve to give because he has nothing to give.... Even the poorest can give.... and if he has no material wealth then he can give love and thereby awaken the love in others.... he can be willing to give and his will is then likened to a good deed.

But at all times God only looks into the heart and no impulse remains hidden from Him therein. An outwardly apparent great act of love can be worthless in the eyes of God if the heart does not feel the love which displays the deed; and even the smallest gift is pleasing to God if it is given with a loving heart. And anyone who honestly wants to give gladly will also give of the little he owns, he won’t fearfully question but share instead.... And it will be returned to him many times over because the Lord says ‘as you give so you shall receive....’ and His Word is truth. Thus no one should keep his possessions anxiously to himself when he endeavours to live in accordance with God’s will, he should give gladly because his action of love will reward him with far greater blessings than his few possessions could ever offer. Because he will receive exceptionally more, both earthly and spiritually.... his soul will mature, he will always be correctly guided because God Himself takes care of those who want to live as it pleases Him, and because His guidance is the guarantee to reach the goal. Only one factor is required of you: that you live with love.... that your thoughts, words and actions will always be guided by the love of your heart and that you devoutly commend yourselves to Him, Who gave you your life so that your souls can mature.... With His grace and strength you are able to do everything, even during times of greatest physical and spiritual difficulties you can do deeds of kindness providing you unite with the Eternal Love Itself through prayer, which will give you unlimited strength and grace because you want to draw nearer to Him with deeds of love....

Amen

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Translated by: Heidi Hanna

NESEBIČNO SLUŽENJE.... SIROMAŠTVO.... ŽELJA ZA DAVANJEM

Sve što činite vi bi trebali činiti u saznanju da izvršavate Božansku volju. Prema tome, vi sve vaše misli, riječi i djela trebate povjeriti Njemu, vi za to trebate zatražiti Njegov blagoslov i u potpunosti se preporučiti Njegovom Božanskom vodstvu.... vi trebate postaviti Njegovu volju da u potpunosti vodi vaš dnevni život, tj., vi jedino trebate željeti da vaš način života bude ugodan Njemu i uvijek činiti najbolje da bi postignuli Njegovu ljubav. Onda ne možete niti govoriti niti činiti nešto što se suprotstavlja Bogu i vaš život na Zemlji neće biti bezuspješan za vaše duše. Vi ispunjavate Božju volju kada zapovijed ljubavi postane vodeći princip vašeg života, onda živite u skladu sa najvažnijim zakonom i Bog će vas blagosloviti, duhovno baš kao i materijalno.

Vaša svrha na Zemlji je nesebično služenje i vi to možete činiti u svakoj situaciji (= u smislu, 'vi na taj način možete proživjeti svaku situaciju'), bez obzira da li ste siromašni ili bogati, veliki ili mali, cijenjeni i moćni ili neprimjetno slabi.... vi uvijek možete biti korisni pod uvjetom da želite služiti/biti od pomoći. Svakom čovjeku je ponuđeno dovoljno mogućnosti da ljubazno/dobronamjerno služi i nitko ne bi trebao vjerovati kako je sam u potrebi primiti (= kako je njemu samome potrebna) pomoć reducirajući time svoju vlastitu odlučnost/hrabrost da daje pošto sam nema ništa za dati.... Čak i najsiromašniji može da(va)ti.... i ako nema materijalno bogatstvo onda može da(va)ti ljubav i na taj način probuditi ljubav u drugima.... on može biti voljan da(va)ti i njegova volja je onda poput dobrog djela (ili 'slična dobrom djelu').

Ali Bog uvijek gleda u srce i ni jedan impuls/nagon Mu tamo ne ostaje sakriven. Jedno na van/vani očigledno/prividno veliko djelo ljubavi može biti bezvrijedno u očima Božjim ako srce ne osjeća ljubav koja prikazuje djelo: i čak je najmanji dar Bogu mio ako je pružen (ili 'ako ga je čovjek dao') sa blagonaklonim srcem koje je ispunjeno sa ljubavlju.

I svatko tko iskreno želi davati sa radošcu ce takoder dati od ono malo što ima, on nece sa strahom ispitivati vec ce umjesto toga dijeliti.... I bit ce mu vraceno puno puta više pošto Gospodin kaže: 'Kako/koliko dajete tako/toliko cete i primiti....' a Njegova Rijec je istina.

Stoga nitko kada nastoji živjeti u skladu sa Božjom voljom ne bi trebao zabrinuto čuvati svoje vlasništvo za sebe, on bi trebao davati sa radošću pošto će ga njegova akcija ljubavi nagraditi sa puno većim blagoslovima nego mu to malo njegove imovine ikad može pružiti. Budući da će on primiti iznimno više, i zemaljski i duhovno.... njegova duša će sazrijeti, on će uvijek biti ispravno vođen pošto Bog Osobno brine o onima koji žele živjeti na Njemu ugodan način (= način koji Njega zadovoljava), i pošto je Njegovo vodstvo garancija za postizavanje cilja.

Jedino jedan faktor se potražuje od vas: da živite za ljubav.... da vaše misli, rijeci i akcije uvijek budu vodene ljubavlju vašeg srca i da se pobožno preporucite Njemu, Koji vam je dao vaš život tako da vaše duše mogu sazrijeti.... Sa Njegovom milošcu i snagom vi možete uciniti sve, cak i u vremenima najvecih fizickih i duhovnih poteškoca vi možete ciniti djela dobrote pod uvjetom da se kroz molitvu sjedinite sa Vjecnom Ljubavlju Osobno, što ce vam dati neogranicenu snagu i milost pošto Mu se vi želite približiti sa djelima ljubavi.

AMEN

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Translated by: Lorens Novosel