Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, there is a kind of magic formula that most of you do not believe in, however, or that you reject as something far removed from you. Yet in its positive effect, in its power to turn things toward the good, it surpasses everything you can imagine, and putting it into practice represents the solution to all problems. The only solution!
Are you curious because you cannot imagine such a thing? Then let yourselves be surprised. It consists of three simple words: “I am willing.”
I want to lead you more deeply into the “secret” of these words, and if you follow Me, quite a few of you will shake your heads and ask yourselves why you did not recognize for yourselves the great significance anchored in the petition “Your will be done,” which in the Lord’s Prayer, the prayer of Christianity, is spoken millions of times every day throughout the world.
The fatal error is this: It is not spoken from the heart—and is therefore powerless—and above all, what then happens as a result of this petition is not recognized as My will, and people do not act accordingly. The highest form of spiritual confusion consists in praying for My will to happen while at the same time acting against My will. With this the lowest point of the soul’s development has been reached, after consciousness was previously restricted step by step, something the greater part of humanity allowed to happen without resistance. This includes those who call themselves Christians, or who have written the “C” on the banner of their party, community, church, or association.
Your idea of Me ranges from “the dear God” through “the God who cannot be understood” to the view of “the punishing God” that still prevails in many places. But I tell you: I am not merely a God of love. I am love!
Whoever is able to grasp it, let him grasp it.
No creature can ever grasp the greatness of My all-embracing love, neither a heavenly being and certainly not a human being. In its incomprehensible breadth, patience, and tolerance, My love gave all children the gift of free will, very well knowing that this also carried the danger of its being misused. But a gift linked to conditions is not a gift of freedom. Nevertheless, I had to build in a “safeguard” to prevent a being—which, depending on its development and spiritual potential, possesses creative powers unimaginable to you—from causing serious harm to what I have created and will create for all eternity.
Thus I created the principle of cause and effect, or of sowing and reaping, as I also called it as Jesus of Nazareth, which ensures that every action directed against the law of love sooner or later falls back upon the one who caused it. Since everything is energy—including, of course, action that is unlawful in the sense of love—and energy cannot be destroyed but retains its evil, destructive power until it is transformed, all negativity that has not yet been atoned for waits to discharge itself. Time and space play no role in this! The point in time when the effects are felt, when the discharge begins, depends on when “the barrel is full and overflows.”
Once again for those who find it difficult to believe My words because they see no immediate temporal connection between seed once sown and the harvest that follows: Time and space play no role in this! Tens of thousands of years, indeed many eons, may pass before the harvest ripens. What has not been atoned for—that is, what has not yet been recognized, regretted, made good, or worked off—still exists. If it were otherwise, and every cause were followed immediately by its effect, that would not correspond to My patience, which is founded in My love and grants every sinner the opportunity for self-knowledge and turning back. If an effect occurred immediately, this time of grace for reflection would be lacking.
Instead I wait. Yet I admonish, I explain, I offer My help, I allow Myself to be called unjust, and I accept that My children turn away from Me—and all this because My adversary and yours succeeded in falsifying My teaching and removing the decisive little cog called “sowing and reaping” from My smoothly functioning clockwork of creation. With it, the knowledge of repeated incarnations was also suppressed.
That is why human beings can no longer recognize basic connections either: namely, that whenever something occurs, whether pleasant or unpleasant, something must always have preceded it that triggered what is now taking place. Knowing details about this is not necessary; under certain circumstances it would only burden you. It is fully sufficient to accept that nothing happens without a reason, that there are therefore no so-called coincidences. And that I make no mistakes!
On this basis, an unshakable relationship of trust can arise between Me and you.
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True love cannot be conceived without justice. It always has the well-being of the other in view. In many cases, because they know nothing of spiritual laws or of the soul of their child, parents place the emphasis exclusively on the child’s outward well-being. For Me, you are a spiritual creature of My love whose home is with Me and who lives only temporarily in a human body, which you lay aside again when you have taken your last breath. My whole love therefore applies to the development of your soul, which survives “death,” with the aim of having you back with Me as soon as possible.
True love also includes consequences. If this clear language does not suit someone, let him use consistency or logical consequence instead. The result is the same. Without consequences, guidance whose goal is the soul’s gradual perfection would make no sense. Since it is the human being who learns throughout a lifetime—whether he knows it or not, for that is what an incarnation is for—the soul learns indirectly through the experiences the human being has and through the decisions he makes. I gave you the standard for this through My life as Jesus: love of God and love of neighbor, which includes love of oneself.
Through your will and the actions resulting from it, you therefore say yes or no without interruption to My law of love. This means that you fulfill it—as well as you are already able—through your effort, or you ignore it and live according to your own law. I never interfere with your free decision. If you have the feeling that you are no longer free in your choice because inner or outer circumstances do not allow it, this merely indicates that your formerly free will has experienced restrictions through what you did or failed to do in the past; never through Me. Whenever that may have been, perhaps even a very, very long time ago.
Despite the self-caused reduction of your freedom of will, however, one possibility always remains open to you, even when you are unable to change a situation by your own strength: to ask for help, if necessary even with a cry from the depths of your heart. Even the worst and most aggressive enemy cannot prevent such a step, though of course he does not want to let you move toward My light, because he knows that he will then lose the influence he has exercised over you until now.
Therefore, My beloved, write it in capital letters deep into your soul: Nothing and no one can prevent you from turning to the greatest power of creation and asking to receive help, no matter who you are, how long your record of sins may be, or how greatly feelings of guilt—often completely unjustified—may burden you. There is nothing that My love and mercy are unable to embrace. Absolutely nothing!
So the question is not whether you can come to Me, but always only whether you do it!
What does this now mean for you and for what you will experience in your life as a result? And with that I return to the “magic formula” of which I spoke at the beginning.
To come to Me and speak with Me in the realization that you are in the situation of a child turning to his father—or also his mother—means nothing more and nothing less than:
I recognize You as the source of my life, and I am willing to align my future thinking, speaking, and acting with Your law of love, insofar as, with good will and with Your support, which I will then experience, I am already able to do so.
What then happens depends on the honesty of your turning to Me and on the seriousness of your wish to change something in your life in keeping with My commandment of love. Words do not play the decisive role. Tears and stammering are dearer to Me than beautifully composed formulations. I look upon and into your heart in any case. Nor do I need praise or expressions of reverence. I want you as a child whom I can henceforth guide in My law of love, which means: according to My holy will.
And My will is that My human children keep to My law even in the hard reality of their everyday lives; at least, that they seriously strive to do so. This is not always entirely easy, and sometimes it is very difficult. Christianity became a religion that could apparently be practiced largely without difficulty and, for many, “with ease” only when state and church came to an agreement centuries ago and rewrote the rules …
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You will readily have noticed that such an inner attitude is something different from a casually spoken “Your will be done” that lacks the lifeblood of the heart. Moreover—and this will surprise some—My will happens always and everywhere in any case, because it cannot be overridden. It is active in what is positive, constructive, in wholeness or becoming whole, in comfort and encouragement, wherever people live My will. Where that is not the case, it often appears on the surface as though darkness had won a victory. That may for a time be so outwardly as well; but since My will stands above everything, My law of sowing and reaping will determine what happens in the time that follows wherever My commandment of love has been trampled underfoot.
The spiritual view of every event is always the authoritative one and, in the end, the decisive one, even if at first glance it often appears otherwise. This appearance, My beloved, is deceptive.
The “great ones” of this world do not believe this. They are the truly ignorant ones who, in their pride, place themselves above Me and measure themselves by what in their eyes are successes and fruits of their intellect and cunning, with which they can temporarily dazzle a large part of My unenlightened children. There will be a rude awakening for them. Those who influence and guide them from the deepest astral regions still live unchallenged and unendangered under the protection of their darkness. Still—because with Me, space and time play no role.
Trust in Me is the foundation for a happy and carefree life with Me. If you want to know how your trust in Me stands, how great your willingness already is to recognize and accept Me as the One who directs your destiny, and—to use a picture—whether you are already able to board My train without knowing the details of the journey, you can test this yourselves in a simple way.
For this I give you a hint, a thought I have already brought close to you once before. And of course you are free to do this little exercise or not. Your decision changes nothing in My love or in My willingness to stand by you at any time. It does, however, require a little courage on your part, at least if you want to be honest with yourselves.
Add two words to the petition of the Lord’s Prayer, and you will learn—as a snapshot—to assess yourselves, your relationship with Me, your faith in Me, and your trust in Me correctly. Close your eyes and pray:
“Your will be done in me.”
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However the result may turn out or may have turned out: See it positively and rejoice—provided you are fundamentally willing to learn from it. In very few will a spontaneous yes without ifs or buts have risen up. Perhaps this petition strikes the nerve too strongly or too directly. If something made you hesitate, and if you would like to know what it was, then look within. Nothing can happen to you in doing so except that through this analysis you discover what is still lacking in you, and that perhaps you are deprived of one or another illusion about yourselves. Then you have the freedom to decide whether to work on the points you have recognized or not.
Whoever does not strive to develop his selfless love will not do this exercise. He will pass over it, for the result would mean having to give up the self-will that stands against My will. Everyone is free to act one way or the other. Only, My sons and daughters: To act against the uncompromising law of My love—regardless of whether one publicly bears the “C” or expresses it in some other way—and at the same time to pray that My will may be done represents the highest form of spiritual confusion mentioned at the beginning.
Every change, whether on a large or small scale, begins within the human being. Since you have free will, I must—because I do not act against My own law—wait with more intensive guidance that allows you to grow step by step and with less suffering than before. This is where the magic formula comes into play. Whoever, after honestly examining his motivation, can say to Me, “I am willing,” entrusts himself to My will.
And My will is the solution to all problems. Without exception. The solution will not always be able to unfold without pain and suffering, not for you as an individual and certainly not for humanity as a whole. Everything depends on how deeply the mistaken path of lovelessness has drawn the individual, or whole groups and peoples, over centuries and millennia into the mire of sinfulness. But since everything must find its way back again, there is no other path than to leave the self-created swamp step by step by giving up the previous behavior; a process that will be initiated through chaos and upheavals of many kinds and will bring great losses. The beginnings are visible to those who have preserved clear thinking.
They also understand the call: “Enter the ark at the right time …”
Whoever still takes My outstretched hand in this phase, I will be able to guide, even though no one will come through entirely without bruises. But these impairments will be nothing compared with the burden borne by those who remain without insight and continue to fight against Me, love.
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Heaven knows no waiting times. A yes to Me and My love sets countless little cogs in My clockwork of creation in motion at the same instant, and they immediately begin working, all meshing together. From now on I am the One who sets the switches in your life, which will henceforth take a different course than in the past and will be determined by the law of sowing and reaping only to the extent—a minimum extent—that it is necessary as an impulse toward insight and change for the good. And in the learning process that then follows, I am the friend at your side.
Do you have the courage to say to Me: “I am willing”?
My beloved sons and daughters, it does take a little courage to make this decision. For it shakes a basic understanding: the conventional view of what being a Christian really means. So that you do not continue along the path of a false idea that makes you stagnate and at the same time gives many the feeling that they are nevertheless doing everything right and doing everything that makes a Christian, I will confront you with a truth that will provoke vehement opposition in many.
It is not the first time I have told you that being a Christian cannot be compared with a Sunday stroll on which you meet only nice people whom you greet pleasantly. Those who joined Me as Jesus of Nazareth because they recognized love in Me and in what I lived before them were contemptuously called the “sect of the Nazarene.” Many decades of persecution followed because darkness recognized a great danger in the uncompromising attitude of the followers of My teaching. Not without reason, for if the commandment of love had been practiced as I taught it, that would have been equivalent to the end of evil; because love lived out would sooner or later have led everything opposed to it to insight and remorse and thus to turning back.
After the suffering and death of My followers failed to produce the desired success, the idea arose of making life as a “Christian” socially acceptable. In this way, anyone who wished could incorporate his Christianity into his daily life without having to adapt that life very much to My commandment of love. This process of dilution lasted for centuries, and in the end hardly anyone still thought to consider whether his behavior truly corresponded to My commandment of love of neighbor—which includes love of enemies.
To recognize the truth in My words, it is merely necessary to replace the word “Christian” with the much more honest and meaningful designation “follower.” Whoever does not resist this inwardly and has retained his honesty can reach only one conclusion: Following Jesus Christ is something different from calling oneself a Christian. Doing both at the same time is certainly possible and has been and is still lived today by people who truly love Me and are faithful to Me; but it is not the rule.
To follow Me, as I taught as Jesus of Nazareth, means fulfilling the will of the heavenly Father. And this will is: love—and nothing else. Following Me in everyday life can therefore be lived even without giving Me a name or belonging to one of the many churches or religious communities. What you do is decisive.
To follow Me means to take up one’s cross, just as I bore the cross for all human beings. Those among you who know the Bible will be very familiar with this saying. Have they reflected on what is meant by it? Christianity in the Western world also passes over the saying that they will persecute you just as they persecuted Me. Why? Because there is no longer persecution of Christians among you?
Again you underestimate the sophisticated way the opposing forces proceed. Much more effective than obvious suppression is to lure believers onto a track on which, even without outward measures, they are led away from the path of following Me. The result is decisive; the path to it, the method, is secondary.
What does it mean to enter into following Me? First and foremost it means placing one’s self-will into the will of the heavenly Father by striving to align one’s behavior with Mine and repeatedly asking oneself whether one’s own actions in this or that point correspond to My teaching and My example. Seriously putting something like this into practice is something different from “arranging oneself with the world” and trying to get through the day, through life, as far as possible without giving offense.
It is not about being rebellious, My beloved, or even loudly resisting. It is entirely enough to say no in those points that do not agree with My teaching of love—by all means apply a strict standard—and to do so in full awareness that you may then have to reckon with disadvantages, perhaps even serious ones.
In your Scripture, which is the foundation of faith for many, you find an account stating that one should obey God rather than human beings. Whoever does not pass over this statement too quickly should really always see a large exclamation mark before his eyes at this point. Or perhaps a question mark? At the very least, he should pause in thought for a moment—perhaps he will even be startled by the clarity of the saying—and ask himself whether he is willing to think, speak, and act in the same way the apostles and disciples did. For that is a high demand, the highest of all.
Engaging with this question brings you—in every case, no matter what the answer is—a great gain in recognizing how you think, what you are willing to do, and what you are not. I expect nothing from you. And whether you strive to put this principle of faith into practice step by step in your life, or whether you consider its implementation unrealistic: It changes nothing in the fact that I love you infinitely and support you in every respect in order to make your return home easier.
The hurdles that have been erected to convey to you that such action cannot be practiced are very high. But their logic is pseudo-logic that does not know the superior strength of My help and guidance. If the specious arguments of My opponent were justified, then I would have taught something false. Whom you believe lies within your free decision.
Whoever tries to follow Me will not be able to avoid encountering difficult situations as well. That is the price followers must pay. Not all, not always, not always to the same degree! But many who have reached out their hand to Me and remained faithful to Me have had to recognize that it is not possible to follow Me as honestly as possible and still go through the world of darkness entirely unchallenged and often also unharmed—for that is nothing other than what your earth is.
It is the loss of things grown dear that you are threatened with. Or you are shown what it means to have to give up long-practiced habits. Fears are conjured up in you in order to shake your decision to live in My footsteps.
Be aware of this, My sons and daughters. It has never been easy to follow My example. For it could and can mean losing one’s friends, one’s work, that the family becomes divided, that one’s life is endangered, and much more. Giving up something that after many years simply belongs to life is regarded as a difficult, often insoluble task. Yet many forget that what they are supposed to give up was first made appealing to them, even though it is not necessarily required for a happy existence in which the soul’s progress stands in the foreground. Thus attachment arises, and dissolving it is very difficult for many or seems impossible.
If you wish, think about this aspect of being a Christian. I am not telling you this to evoke fears, but to draw the attention of those who want to follow Me out of love to the stones people try to place in their path, well prepared and often planned far in advance. Yet with each renewed decision to remain faithful to Me and My principles nonetheless, My strength in you also grows. You develop ever more deeply a trust in My guidance that finally becomes so strong that no threatened disadvantages can make you restless in the long run. But you should know that such disadvantages are intended to be imposed upon you. How you will behave depends, among other things, on whether you place the emphasis on preserving your earthly life, or whether you make decisions while also keeping in view your later life as a spiritual being.
The struggle is always directed against those who, from the perspective of evil, represent a danger to its influence. The lukewarm, the fellow travelers who do not truly live the “C” in the sense of following Me, are often left unmolested because darkness assumes that they will make no serious effort and therefore no great leaps in the soul. In this connection also consider—if it applies to you—why you are so quickly and often thoughtlessly willing to trust worldly leaders who through their actions have often enough proved that they disregard My commandment of love and therefore stand under the law of sowing and reaping; while you are hardly or only slightly able to show the same trust toward Me, who am the life in you and love you selflessly and unconditionally …
Closing your eyes and accepting without examination as truth the words and deeds of those who currently have the say can bring you, as a human being and later your soul, into distress. It may be that such thinking is founded in the wish that everything might soon become good again and return to how it was before. And if it did? Would not the “old routine” simply continue as before? Would that have initiated and completed a process that is an indispensable prerequisite for upward development?
Those among you who know Scripture inside and out I remind of another saying of Jesus: “No one comes to the Father except through Me!” It says that the human will must be placed into the will of the Creator if the soul is to enter heaven. How can this happen more safely and simply than through surrender: Father, I am willing!?
Whoever can bring himself to do this will not want to know what awaits him on his further journey, on which I will be his guide. It matters little or not at all to him, because love has taken over the direction of his life. Then, as already said, I will become the great switchman for you. For I alone know what is good for you—even for your human self!—and what your soul desires and needs.
I remind you of a saying you use. It is: “God can fill your hands only when they are empty.”
So you must be willing to give Me what your human self would most like still to hold because you believe your happiness depends on it. It is not said that it will be taken from you. But if this is the case, then it happens as painlessly as possible. You then also know that something greater and more beautiful is waiting for you; something that gives you joy and, in keeping with your abilities, will fully satisfy you, indeed make you happy.
For it is My goal to see you happy. Only in this way can you become the lighthouse I want and that also corresponds to the image engraved in your soul. The only prerequisite for this to succeed is that your decision be made in freedom and out of love for Me. No other motivation bears fruit, especially not when fear is its motive, the wish to come through the already emerging turmoil of the time ahead outwardly as unharmed as possible.
But if you can decide to follow Me out of love, regardless of what that will mean for you, then you will grow in your soul and yourself become more and more love. Is this not also your wish, My beloved son, My beloved daughter?
Amen