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God gives back many times.... gifts without love worthless....

What you voluntarily sacrifice you will receive back in many ways. You humans should never believe that you have to live in want yourselves if you sacrifice yourselves out of love for your neighbour, for your father in heaven knows what your situation is like and will never let the earthly child suffer a lack if it lives on earth in accordance with His will, if it practices love and always works in love. But people's selfish love often keeps them from helping their neighbour, for they are not willing to sacrifice so as not to diminish themselves.... And these will never experience the blessing of the working of love and will also never be allowed to experience the pure joy of giving to themselves. But your father in heaven will repay you abundantly, you can be sure of that.... And thus wealth will always increase for an unselfish donor, spiritually and earthly the more he gives of what is his the richer he will be, he will not need to live in want, which is why no human being can excuse himself with poverty which prevented him from giving.... But the will to love is valued which accompanies every gift, for without love every gift is worthless, no matter how great and valuable it may be. And this again shows that even the knowledge of God's return should not motivate a person to do good, for as soon as only self-love or calculation is the motive for an apparent work of love, it nevertheless has no value.... Only you should not let the fear arise in you that you will not be able to exist yourselves when you give to others, for this worry is unnecessary if only your heart impels you to give and to give happiness. And therefore it would truly be a paradise on earth if no human being would want to pass by the hardship of his fellow human being.... if everyone would relieve hardship regardless of his own situation.... For this will never get worse. But every good work would awaken love again and let people mature much faster.... But selfish love prevents this, and everyone thinks of himself first before he thinks of his fellow human being, but he himself will not be able to acquire anything through his own strength, he should bear this in mind.... And just as he first receives from God what earthly life gives him, he should also want to give out of inner impulse, and it will never be to his detriment. For every deed of love has a spiritual and earthly effect, and every deed of love is a step closer to God, Who Himself is love....

Amen

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Translated by: Doris Boekers

BOG UZVRAĆA VIŠESTRUKO... DAVANJE BEZ LJUBAVI BEZVRIJEDNO...

Ono što dobrovoljno žrtvujete vi dobivate nazad višestruko. Vi ljudi nikada ne bi trebali vjerovati da ćete osobno morati gladovati ako dajete iz Ljubavi prema bližnjemu, jer Otac na nebu zna kakva je vaša vlastita situacija, i On nikada neće dopustiti da bude u oskudici ono zemaljsko dijete koje na Zemlji živi po Njegovoj volji, koje prakticira Ljubav i uvijek djeluje u Ljubavi. No samoljublje ljudī često ih sputava pri djelima pomoći spram bližnjega, jer oni nisu spremni žrtvovati, kako sami sebe ne bi morali zakidati.... A ti nikada neće iskusiti blagoslov Ljubav-nog djelovanja kao što sami na sebi nikada neće ni moći doživjeti čistu radost poklanjanja.

Ali vaš Otac na nebu bogato uzvraća, u to možete biti sigurni.... Tako da će se za nesebičnog davatelja bogatstvo neprestano umnažati, duhovno i materijalno on će biti toliko bogatije obdaren što više daje od onoga što je njegovo, neće trebati gladovati (oskudijevati), radi čega se niti jedan čovjek ne može izgovarati siromaštvom koje ga sprječava davati.... No vrjednuje se Ljubav-na volja koja ide uz svako davanje, jer bez Ljubavi svako je davanje bezvrijedno, koliko god ono bilo veliko i bitno. A iz toga opet proizlazi da znanje o uzvraćanju od strane Boga, čovjeka ne bi trebalo pokretati na to da čini dobro, jer ako je samo samoljublje ili proračun motiv za naizgledno djelo Ljubavi, ono i pored toga nema nikakve vrijednosti....

Jedino što ne bi trebali dozvoliti da se plašite da sami nećete moći opstati ako dijelite drugima, jer ta briga je nepotrebna samo ako vas vaše srce nagoni na to da dajete i darujete sreću. I uistinu bi na Zemlji bio raj kad čovjek ne bi htio proći pored čovjeka u nevolji.... kad bi svatko ublažavao nevolju drugoga bez obzira na svoju vlastitu situaciju.... Jer ona se nikad neće pogoršati.

A svako dobro djelo bi s druge strane budilo Ljubav i činilo bi da ljudi puno brže sazrijevaju.... No samoljublje to sprječava, i svatko misli prvo na sebe prije negoli se sjeti drugoga, no on svojom vlastitom snagom neće moći priskrbiti ništa, toga treba biti svjestan.... I kao što on prvo od Boga prima ono što mu poklanja zemaljski život, tako bi on trebao htjeti darovati iz unutarnje pobude, i to mu nikada neće biti na štetu. Jer svako djelo Ljubavi ima duhovne i zemaljske posljedice, i svako djelo Ljubavi korak je bliže Bogu, Koji je Sâm Ljubav....

AMEN

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Translated by: Lorens Novosel