It is essential to live up to the commandment of love in order to attain profound faith. Proof is not necessary to believe, rather, you have to become convinced of something that cannot be proven so that you can wholeheartedly support it, so that you can endorse what you now believe in. Only this kind of faith is assessed by Me as living faith, for I do not regard mere words and assurances as belief but merely as an agreement to avoid an objection, since you cannot substantiate an objection. In that case you blindly believe, you accept without scrutiny, without personal opinion, what is imparted to you from outside. But this kind of faith will never emanate strength, with this kind of faith you will never be able to achieve remarkable effects.... for only a living faith can give evidence of the strength of faith. But living faith is faith born by love, because love is the strength which then expresses itself in faith. Faith without love is dead, it is something inertly formal that has no effect. An active intellect can certainly come to a conclusion which the person then calls ‘belief’ but this belief will be more an assumption which will neither please nor elevate him.... as long as the love in him has not been kindled. For only love will give life to such faith. A loving person, however, does not need to activate his intellect exceptionally, and yet he will nevertheless be able to endorse his knowledge, for he is enlightened by his inner spirit, and thus he can believe with conviction because he has the evidence within himself.
Hence, what should be believed cannot be proven, or one could not talk about ‘faith’, and yet no doubt exists for the person who lives with love, because the spirit within him will give him explanations which justify profound faith. But these cannot be conclusively transferred to another person because every human being has to arrive at faith himself, which he is able to do if he does not ignore love.... love, however, is the unification with Me.... Consequently, I Myself also have to be recognised by those who love, and therefore faith in Me can no longer be doubtful.... for where I Am present through love I give evidence of Myself to the person, and then he is imbued by a living faith which can never be without strength. I Am the source of everything.... love and wisdom, light and strength originate from Me, and one without the other is unthinkable.... Thus anyone who is intimately connected to Me through love will necessarily also have living faith and thus full knowledge. But where love is lacking the latter does not exist either. Then it is a dead faith without awareness, for I Am love Myself, without love there is no strength and no light.... without love you humans still live in darkness, and without love you are frail beings, for only love will make you strong....
Amen
TranslatorDa bi se dosegla zelo globoka vera, je bistvenega pomena izpolnjevati Zapovedi Ljubezni.Da bi se verovalo, dokaz ni nujen; vi bi prej morali postati prepričani v nekaj, kar ne more biti dokazano, tako da vi to lahko podpirate z vsem srcem,tako da lahko podkrepite to, v kar sedaj verujete. Edino to vrsto vere Jaz ocenjujem kot živo vero. Jaz namreč ne smatram,da soverovanje edino besede in prepričanja, temveč da je to edinole nekaprivolitev, da bi sebilo moč izogniti pomisleku(negodovanju), ker vi ne morete podkrepiti neke pripombe. V tem primeru pa vi slepo verujete; vi sprejemate brez podrobnega preverjanja, brez osebnega mišljenja to, kar vam je povedano s strani. Ta vera pa ne bo nikoli izžarevala moči in vi s to vrsto vere ne boste nikoli sposobni doseči izjemnih rezultatov(učinkov).... ker edino živa vera lahko daje dokaz moči vere.Vendar pa je živa vera rojena iz Ljubezni, ker je Ljubezen moč, katera se izraža v veri. Vera brez Ljubezni pa je mrtva; to je nekaj, kar jemrtvo formalnega in kar je brez učinka. Nek razum, ki je dejaven, lahko zagotovo pride do zaključka, katerega človek imenuje »verovanje«. Vendar pa bo to verovanje bolj kot neka domneva, katera ga ne bo zadovoljila, kakor tudi ne povišala(mu ne bo prinesla napredka).... vse dokler v njemu ni bilo prižgane Ljubezeni, ker bo samo Ljubezen takšni veri dala življenje. Ljubeznivi osebi namreč ni potrebno posebno aktivirati razuma; kljub temu pa bo lahko podkrepil njegovo znanje, ker je on prosvetljen s strani njegovega notranjega duha. Tako on lahko s prepričanjem veruje, ker ima dokaz znotraj njega samega.
To je razlog, da to, kar je potrebno verovati, ne more biti dokazano, ker drugače človek ne bi mogel govoriti o »veri«. Vendar pa za človeka, ki živi z Ljubeznijo, ne obstaja nobenega dvoma, ker mu duh znotraj njega daje razlage, katere opravičujejo zelo globoko vero. Vendar pa le ta ne more biti prepričljivo prenesena na drugo osebo, ker mora vsako človeško bitje sámo priti do vere, kar pa je sposobno narediti, če ne zanemari Ljubezni.... Ljubezen je torej spajanje(združitev) z Menoj.... Zaradi tega pa moram biti Jazravno tako prepoznan s strani tistih, ki ljubijo, in tako vera v Mene ne more biti večdvomljiva.... Tam, kjer SemJaz prisoten preko Ljubezni, Jaz osebi dajem dokaz o Sebi, da je on tako izpolnjen z živo vero, katera pa nikoli ne more biti brez moči. Jaz Sem izvor vsega.... Ljubezen, modrost, svetloba in moč izhajajo iz Mene, zato je eno brez drugega nezamisljivo.... In tako bo vsak, ki je preko Ljubezni intimno povezan z Menoj, zagotovo imel tudi živo vero in zato popolno znanje. Kjer pa Ljubezni primanjkuje, tam tudi slednje ne obstaja. Potem pa je to mrtva vera brez zavedanja, ker Sem JazOsebno Ljubezen (1 Ivan 4:8, 16); brez Ljubezni pa ni moči in ni svetlobe.... brez Ljubezni vi ljudje še naprej živite v temi in brez Ljubezni ste vi krhka bitja, ker vas bo samo Ljubezen naredila močne.
AMEN
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