Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, you live in a time when it is becoming ever more important to build a close connection with Me, your heavenly Father. If you have taken the first steps, or already several more, in this direction, then become aware that it is necessary for our connection to become a relationship of love. This necessity has always existed, but the beginning turmoil of your time points you more strongly toward not only taking hold of My hand and never letting it go again, but allowing yourselves to be guided by Me free of worry and strengthened in heart and soul.
I have always expressed this in images in order to make it easier for you to understand in depth. But whether I speak of the fact that I, your Lord, am your Shepherd and that with Me you lack nothing; or whether I ask you to take Me aboard your ship of life as the pilot; or whether I call to you: Make sure that you enter the ark in time—what is always at issue is creating within yourselves, through a corresponding turning toward Me—if possible, surrender to Me—and through honest effort, the conditions for guidance by Me that becomes more and more direct.
Guidance exists fundamentally and without interruption; but whether it can take place through Me, or through your guardian angels and spiritual helpers who act on My behalf, or whether the law of cause and effect still determines your destiny to a greater or lesser degree depends—because of each person’s free will and therefore his decisions—on the individual. From what is brewing in your world and from My serious words, which I proclaim worldwide and not only here, it is not difficult to conclude that the “times of milk and honey” to which many have become accustomed are approaching their temporary end. And yet it is not enough to remember Me merely out of concern for the future.
I am no bookkeeper, I told you not very long ago. But, and I say this today to those who still cannot assess Me in My clarity and wisdom: I am also no seller with whom one can bargain, perhaps according to the motto: “If you give or promise me this or that, then I might consider accommodating you.”
What kind of justice would it be that had not created laws of love applying equally to everyone, but made its affection or willingness to accommodate dependent on whether and how well someone believes he can negotiate? I am incorruptible because I am all-embracing love and justice.
The way to My heart, which is like a road of light, can be taken by everyone. And the gate to this road, before which sooner or later every soul and every human being will stand, opens for everyone who has the desire to draw near to Me and follow Me. Nothing else—to remain with this image—can cause the gate to open: no pleading that arises merely from fear of possible punishments in hell, no bargaining, no asking or begging without the intention of an inner turning back, no study, no donations, no outward church membership, no indulgence, no practice of rites and externalities, no position in a religious community, however highly placed, and much more besides.
For I am justice!
A humble heart longing for love, however, possesses the key. A cry for help that comes from a tormented heart which recognizes its inadequacy and its limits, or a plea for assistance and insight because a person no longer knows what to do and now dares to take a step toward Me, can also open the gate behind which the road to freedom begins. Certainly not all sorrow and suffering will immediately have come to an end, but a beginning has been made. The wandering about until then has ceased; the person is thus no longer a plaything of invisible forces that ruled him in the past.
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Many of My children have no idea, or a false idea, of what it means to live with Me, to go through the day with Me, to proclaim My love. They confuse earnestness with severity and narrowness, humor with superficiality, lightness with frivolity; they prefer obedience to the letter over inner freedom with personal responsibility; they prefer to follow tradition rather than examine it for its importance and correctness; they consider cheerfulness displeasing to God and prefer to remain with the heaviness of heart instilled in them through upbringing; they do not—yet—recognize themselves as radiant sons and daughters of My love, but instead see themselves as poor and powerless sinners; and they do not—yet—know of the redeeming and liberating power of My love within them, and so they often remain passive throughout an entire lifetime, hoping for My grace, which is only waiting to become effective through their active yes to Me.
What do you think, My sons and daughters, the relationship was like between Me and those who were around Me during the three years of My teaching? Do you believe I could have carried them along and inspired hundreds and thousands of followers if I had declared them to be “wretched sinners”? If I had held before their eyes their inability to change anything? If I had urged them to study “the Scriptures” intensively and regularly? And if so: which ones? A Bible as you know it today did not yet exist then, nor in the decades that followed. Moreover, most of what today is often regarded as “necessary for salvation” did not exist either—necessary for salvation in the sense that a person can attain the kingdom of heaven only under very specific conditions invented by church rulers.
So what did I do? What did I teach them?
I spoke with them about their heavenly home, about their true origin and their goal. I showed them the way on which they would find their way back. I placed love at the center and made clear to them through countless parables how they could put it into practice in their lives. I conveyed to them the joy and freedom they would experience—even during their lifetime—when, like the prodigal son, they set out on the way home. I spoke to them of the infinite love of an eternally forgiving Father, of the longing with which the Father awaits them; and of the longing that, though still hidden, rests within them. I gave them courage; I strengthened them.
We laughed together when it was appropriate, and we also wept together. But our time together was always shaped by the knowledge that a divine power guides and protects us and fills us with strength and enthusiasm. Certainly, it took some time before this seed—this way of thinking that was new to them—could mature within them. But then they were seized by the power of the Spirit, of love. There was no room for feelings of inferiority, despondency, lack of a spirit of new beginnings, and the like. To recognize oneself as a child of God, as a creature of love, could—and can—never result in anything sluggish, hopeless, or lacking in drive.
Very few have reflected on the words I spoke as Jesus, namely that you are to become like children. I repeat them here: Strive to change your disposition so that it becomes like that of a child, because then good conditions exist for attaining the kingdom of God. These include above all a childlike purity, a childlike trust, a childlike living in the here and now, and a childlike belief in the good. Over the years your circumstances in life have caused a large part of the original childlike qualities to be lost. You allowed this and were often enough yourselves involved in shaping a worldview that now burdens you, that often enough leaves you fearful, negative, lacking hope, and focused on yourselves. Where have carefree ease, playful joy, blind trust gone? What caused the feeling of security you experienced in the arms of your father or mother to disappear?
It is entirely normal for a new worldview to arise as one grows into adulthood. This is even unavoidable, because it is a matter of gathering experiences, accepting learning processes, and putting them into practice. But this does not necessarily mean becoming a “child of this world,” from whom more and more of what once characterized being a child is lost with every experience.
Since, however, this is generally what happens—the influences of darkness are enormous—I pointed My adult listeners toward reopening within themselves the positive qualities of a child. There is absolutely no reason to remain with wrong thinking and behavior practiced for years; on the contrary, doing so is highly disadvantageous and even dangerous with regard to your way home. Nor is there any power that could seriously and permanently prevent a person from becoming a child again—in the sense I have described to you.
I call the way there “inner work,” through which you uncover again what has been buried over many years. This effort is like clearing out a well that is being cleansed of rubble and refuse. It is also a matter of practicing again an old behavior that has fallen into oblivion. But what is uncovered again—with My help—is nothing fundamentally new; for to the same degree that you cease wrong behavior from the past, a loving behavior that has long lain within you, but has not yet fully developed again, rises to the surface of your soul and expresses itself in your human self and through your human self.
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When you look back over the history of the last two thousand years, you will have to recognize that My name was misused and My teaching altered and thus robbed of its living heart—the effort to live love in practice. What happened with the term “Christian”? Who is a “Christian”? The person who follows My teaching? Or the person who belongs to a Christian religious community? Can both be true? Certainly, and there are many to whom this applies.
But a large part bears the designation without living up to it in the same measure, without ever having reflected that one does not become a Christian through baptism or by joining a church, but solely through a life grounded in following Me. Being a Christian can therefore only mean feeling and behaving—or at least striving to do so—as those did who allowed themselves to be taught by Me, and as those who in the following years and decades came to know My simple teaching of love and resolved to follow it to the best of their ability.
Their gaze was directed forward; beyond faith and hope, their hearts were full of certainty. After I had returned to the heavens, many experienced inner guidance directly through My Spirit. They radiated their inner transformation. Above all, they were distinguished by an unwavering trust that their destiny, their present and future life, lay and lies in the hands of their heavenly Father. This brought with it a carefree ease, a feeling of security, and courage—all qualities that today are found in only a few. And should not precisely this characterize a Christian who has learned that he—and, I say, every human being with him—rests in God’s hand?
If My words have made you thoughtful, then in a quiet hour go inward with the question: Am I already as the Lord has described? And if I am not yet so: Do I want to strive for this? Do I already radiate the joy and confidence that other people who are still searching hope to find in a Christian? Can I already proclaim His love through my life? Do I actually want to? Or do I consider it too presumptuous, with all the imperfection still present within me, even to embark on this path? Is this goal perhaps set too high for me?
There is a standard you can apply to yourselves in order to discover your own reality: “By their fruits you will recognize them …” Rejoice if your fruits already show themselves in the fact that you have become more loving, more patient, more openhearted, more forbearing, more open, less intrusive, and much more. Rejoice if you can already look and walk into the future—largely—free of fear. Rejoice if you do not have to lower your gaze when slander and violence confront you. Rejoice if you can already be an example for others by remaining calm and trusting whatever happens—in the knowledge: God makes no mistakes!
If you have not yet come quite that far, but sense that this too could be your path, then make a decision and come to Me with your heart, no matter what is in it. I am the all-understanding and all-forgiving love of the Father. There is no one whom I reject; there is no one to whom I do not grant My full mercy, just as there is no one whom I will not take into My arms and into My protection.
Decide.
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If you have already learned to a large extent to look at your neighbor without condemning him, it can be helpful to consider his speaking and doing, or his silence and failure to act, from the standpoint: “By their fruits you will recognize them …” This has nothing to do with disparaging your neighbor or placing him in one category or another—always provided your way of looking at him is free of judgment. Otherwise you run the risk of being drawn into the negative whirlpool of what you are trying to see through. In doing so you would harm yourselves.
But the solution cannot be to ignore mounting problems by looking away and to hope that in this way they can be made to disappear. In this connection I remind you of My revelation “Misunderstood Love of One’s Enemies” *). If you strive to learn to hear and see from this perspective, you will recognize what is in the process of getting out of control in your world, or what has already gotten out of control.
As a simple exercise, begin with the fact that My entire creation is built upon order. If order is called into question, if an attempt is made to portray it as unnecessary or obsolete, if it is—without making much public mention of this—more or less secretly undermined, or if people believe they can keep up with the spirit of the age through haste and chaos, then you may recognize that no divine powers are the driving force behind it … And if, in a society that calls itself Christian, values such as honesty, kindness, equality, justice, selflessness, respect for the environment—not to mention love—and much more no longer have priority: then how much Christianity remains of what I taught and lived, without calling it by that name? **)
But then also remember what I said about the Shepherd, the pilot, and the ark. Falling into outward activism is just as much the wrong way as giving room to worries about the future. At all times—and this applies now as well—there has been only one way for those who live their Christianity, who give credence to My words, and who wish to entrust themselves to Me: to take My hand, never let it go again, and walk together with Me on the road of light. Full of confidence and in the unshakable knowledge: My heavenly Father loves me!
Be blessed with My love, be strengthened by the power I let flow to you, and know: I am waiting for you. Amen
*) March 29, 2015
**) There were no Christians yet in the time of Jesus. His followers were given the designation “The Sect of the Nazarene.”