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Neighbourly love....

What you do to the least of My brothers, you do unto Me, and thereby you demonstrate your love for Me and for your neighbour. For a deed of neighbourly love also testifies to your love for Me and will enrich you far more than you have given up. And who is your neighbour? Every needy human being who approaches you with a request for help is your neighbour, regardless of whether he voices it or whether it remains unspoken. For you will recognise yourselves when your help is needed and appropriate as soon as the spark of love in you flares up and you are affected by your fellow human being's adversity. Yet you can live in abundance and accomplish a deed of neighbourly love without sacrificing anything, but it will not be regarded as such if you lack love, if you help in order to dispose of an irritating petitioner or to shine before your fellow human beings. So many motives can prompt a person to render help, yet I only value a deed of merciful neighbourly love impelled by your heart. And you will experience the fact that, when love grows cold in people's hearts, help for other people will only occur due to organisation and deeds of love will effectively become routine, which certainly can alleviate people's adversity but which cannot be classed as deeds of neighbourly love, as the fulfilment of My commandment of love, and which therefore cannot have any redeeming effect either. The right hand should not know what the left hand is doing.... it should be a quiet giving; yet material gifts alone cannot be described as deeds of neighbourly love. Every other help, every kind look and every caring word can be valued as a deed of love if it comes from the heart. People's spiritual and psychological adversity is often even greater than their earthly adversity, there you should actively help by giving encouragement and comfort in suffering, by lifting people up spiritually, by conveying My Word and leading them back to faith, where it is necessary. All this is part of the commandment of neighbourly love, and I only expect a soft and compassionate heart for you to be able to fulfil My commandment of love for Me and your neighbour and also awaken love in your neighbour's heart, who thereby can be guided on the right path and you will have acquired a double reward. However, you should not help for the sake of reward but only for love of Me, then all your deeds will be blessed....

Amen

LJUBAV PREMA BLIŽNJEMU (Matej 25:40)

Što činite najmanjem/najnižem od Moje braće, učinili ste i Meni (Matej 25:40), i time Mi dokazujete ljubav prema Meni i prema bližnjemu. Jer djelo ljubavi prema bližnjemu je i svjedočanstvo/potvrda ljubavi prema Meni, i u­činit će vas mnogo bogatijima u odnosu na ono što ste dali (= primit ćete više nego što ste dali).

A tko vam je bližnji? Svaki čovjek kome je potrebna pomoć i koji vam pristupi sa zamolbom, sasvim svejedno, bila ona izgovorena ili ne. Jer, sami ćete prepoznati kad' je vaša pomoć neophodna i potrebna, samo ako iskra ljubavi bukti u vama i, ako vas potreba bližnjeg dotakne. Ali isto tako možete živjeti u izobilju i bez da se žrtvujete vršiti djela ljubavi prema bližnjemu, međutim ona neće biti priznata kao takva ako vam nedostaje ljubav(i), ako pomognete da bi se napornog molitelja riješili ili da bi zablistali pred ljudima.

Postoje mnogi motivi koji čovjeka mogu pokretati na pružanje pomoći, ali Ja priznajem samo djelo samilosne ljubavi prema bližnjemu, na koje vas pokreće srce. I doživjet ćete da, kada se ljubav u srcima ljudi ohladi (Matej 24:12), pomoć za ljude bude organizirana i da na određeni način budu vršena mehanička djela ljubavi, koja dakako da mogu ublažiti nevolju bližnjih, ali koja ne mogu biti priznata kao djela ljubavi prema bližnjima, kao ispunjenje Moje ljubavne zapovijedi i zbog toga ne mogu ni djelovati oslobađajuće. 'Lijeva ne treba znati što čini desna' (Matej 6:3).... to treba biti jedno davanje u tišini; i nisu samo materijalne donacije te koje se nazivaju djelima ljubavi prema bližnjemu/milosrđa. Svaki drugi vid pružanja pomoći, svaki mili pogled i svaka dobra riječ može se smatrati djelom ljubavi, ako dolazi iz srca.

Duhovna i duševna bijeda ljudi često je još veća od (ovo-)zemaljske, i tu se trebate aktivirati u pružanju pomoći, hrabreći i tješeći one koji pate, duhovno (ih) uzdižući, prenoseći im Moju Riječ i ponovno ih privodeći vjeri, gdje god je to potrebno. Sve to spada u zapovijed ljubavi prema bližnjemu, i Ja tražim samo meko i suosjećajno srce, i Moju zapovijed ljubavi prema Meni i prema bližnjemu ispuniti ćete i probudit ćete ljubav u srcu bližnjega koji time može biti naveden na pravi put čime ste si zaradili duplu plaću. Ali ne trebate pomagati zbog (na-)plate, već zbog/iz ljubavi prema Meni, tada će sva vaša djela biti blagoslovljena/posvećena.

AMEN