Divine Revelation
My beloved sons and daughters, it lies in human nature to orient yourselves toward others who apparently know and can do things better. This conveys a sense of security which, upon closer examination or in retrospect, often proves deceptive. And yet the human being repeatedly tends to listen to others and too quickly adopt their thoughts or positions, for the most part out of convenience, but partly also from a lack of courage to assume personal responsibility for his own thinking and acting.
As long as the maturing human child is still in its developmental phase, this process is part of personality formation. It represents, so to speak, the foundation for the slowly forming consciousness that continually expands over the years of life, thereby learns to recognize connections and likewise develops a sense of what, in the spirit of love, is right and wrong, true and untrue.
On this path more and more inner restrictions and blockages dissolve, and the soul begins to “breathe freely.” Finally freedom takes its rightful place among the foremost values: together with love, it lets the human being become a “homeward traveler” even during earthly life, one who recognizes the commandment of love for God and neighbor as the highest guideline. In this spirit My sons and daughters then endeavor to orient their time on earth, which is a period of apprenticeship, accordingly.
At least that is how it is intended, and so in the end it will happen, even though the path there is often made so difficult by the activities of the opposing forces that it appears to the human being as though he could never reach the goal—if indeed he knows of his goal at all.
But he will reach it in every case, because it is My will and because no power can prevent Me from bringing all My children back to Me, into the bosom of love and their true home. As Jesus of Nazareth I brought you the key for the return home, and on Golgotha I placed in your souls the power to use it. The key is called: love—and nothing else, and since then the power has waited for you to make use of it, more and more intensely than was the case in the past. That this has not happened to the necessary extent to put a stop to the activity of darkness can be seen in the catastrophic overall condition of your earth and in the lovelessness prevailing everywhere and its consequences.
I can act upon and within your world only indirectly, through those who follow Me because they love Me. My adversary and yours likewise can exert influence only indirectly; he too needs human beings, but he needs them as compliant vassals whom he turns into suppliers of the energy he so urgently requires. The struggle that has fully broken out is indeed being fought on the battlefield of earth between light and darkness, but the fighters on both sides are you. You are those who either have consciously decided for Me and act accordingly, or you belong to the multitude of those who are blown back and forth like leaves in the wind because they are still undecided.
Because love will be victorious, this also means at the same time: I will be victorious through My faithful ones, through those who have not allowed themselves to be misled. They have given enough room to the longing in their hearts and have grown again into the freedom that allows them to stand and walk upright. In doing so they have overcome their fear, recognized and loosened their bonds, and given Me their yes. Through them and with them I will—we together will—be victorious!
When, as so often before, I speak of a conflict at whose center you stand, most of you leave this indication unnoticed. You are still living, so it seems, in more or less intact circumstances because war, violence, catastrophes, and economic problems scarcely or not yet directly affect you. Your surroundings still reflect to you an apparently intact world. But truly, I tell you: Your world has long since come apart at the seams.
The struggle I mean takes place in the invisible realm. Because you cannot perceive it with your eyes, you do not believe in it or regard corresponding warnings as exaggerated. In this way the opposing side has an easy game, and the ignorance prevailing throughout the world concerning My spiritual laws helps contribute to humanity running open-eyed toward its ruin.
For a long time the invisible realm has been preparing what is now beginning to show itself outwardly. The forces of light and darkness are not merely facing one another; for eons they have been fighting over every single soul and every single human being. The time has come in which the causes set again and again show their effects. I already told you: The barrel has begun to overflow—not because My patience is at an end, but because the barrel is full!
In the time ahead it will be more important than ever that you recognize what is happening and why it is happening; that you learn to assess correctly the motives of your authorities and leaders in every area; that you become independent of the differing opinions that for the most part come from people’s heads and not from their hearts; and that you recognize the many proposed and initiated “solutions” for what they are: completely inadequate attempts to save, with means of the world—and not of the spirit and therefore not of love—something that already carries the seed of downfall within it, in the belief that one can drive out the devil with Beelzebub.
I am the pilot whom you can ask to come aboard the ship of your life so that He may guide you safely and also unharmed—at least as far as your soul is concerned—through the coming storms. This will be all the easier for Me the more you see and understand connections and draw the right conclusions from them, which means: no longer regarding anything as “chance” that “just happens,” only to pass over it quickly afterward, but instead recognizing behind everything My immutable laws. To live with this insight and accept that My love is at work in every event is something different from merely having heard or read about it. It is also more than merely knowing it. The wisdom of My law opens to you in the measure that you are ready to believe My words and follow Me with a childlike, trusting heart.
Then My truth becomes your truth. It must become your truth, because only in this way can you proclaim My love through your life. It then forms the foundation for your sowing good seed from which good fruit will arise. If it does not become your truth, your actions resemble the hollow sound of an empty vessel or the smoke of a smoldering fire that is quickly scattered by the wind.
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Even your cleverest minds recognize only very rarely or not at all—or do not attach the necessary importance to the fact—that spirit governs matter and not the other way around; that the spiritual is the primal ground of the material, and that it cannot be that matter produced spirit. And even when one person or another has become aware of this truth, the necessary understanding was still lacking to draw further conclusions from it. One of them, the decisive one, is: Then My law also stands above everything!
This means that your worldly laws are subordinate to My law, and that everything that happens in My creation is governed by My law or My laws. Whoever is able to carry this thought through to the end must come to realize that disregarding My principle of creation, which is love, must have consequences. Otherwise disorder and chaos would soon prevail—and creation would long since have ceased to exist. The fact that, despite all satanic attempts at destruction, it still exists and will exist for all eternity can serve as proof of the truth of My words for whoever needs proof.
No one can claim to have known nothing of spiritual laws. My word, which I gave you two thousand years ago, has penetrated into almost every corner of your earth: “Love God, your heavenly Father, above all and your neighbor as yourself.” This is the highest law; it is the guideline that guarantees that whoever acts according to it lives and acts with Me in freedom and peace and draws from abundance.
Because I never threaten or punish or exert pressure of any kind in order to move a creature toward conduct in the spirit of My chief commandment, the impression has arisen that this is indeed a morally elevated rule, but one that can also be regarded as an offer that one may accept or not.
My commandment is more than an offer. My commandment is law.
Thus My human children know that I am more than “dear God,” and that My creation rests on the iron feet of My laws. And since everything has come forth from My Spirit, there can be no rules, regulations, provisions, or standards that make My laws ineffective, stand above them, or circumvent them.
I am!
I gave every creature free will, in which I never intervene. And yet I had to ensure that self-will could not be misused to bring into being, contrary to love, something that would permanently damage creation or, in the worst case, destroy it. I had to set limits. The law of cause and effect, which came into the world through the fall of the angels, or Fall, is the instrument that guarantees the return of all My children. It is part of My love because it does not interfere with free will and nevertheless, sooner or later, will bring human beings and souls to the realization that they have acted wrongly, whereupon the desire will arise within them to turn back and thereby return home.
Many people know My educational principle as the “law of sowing and reaping,” at least in theory. And here lies your problem: You are seldom or not at all willing or able to view your small personal life, and also the great events of the world, from the standpoint of “cause and effect.” Again and again so-called chance must serve as the explanation; or you pass over a matter far too quickly, especially when closer examination would reveal little that is pleasant or would point to consequences and make decisions necessary.
This superficiality is encouraged by the opposing forces with seemingly logical arguments as harmless or tolerable. This rapid passing over and looking past things serves darkness to cloud your view so that you do not examine much more closely. Added to this is that your fast-moving time soon places a new event on the agenda, and amid all the distraction you do not get around to asking yourselves:
Is what is happening there on the large scale, and also with me personally on the small scale, actually right or wrong in the spirit of love, true or untrue? Have I developed the ability and honesty, and am I willing to summon the courage to look at myself by applying to my thinking and acting the standard of the commandment of love for God and neighbor? And perhaps also to reflect on my motives—why in the past I so often followed this or that authority uncritically and still follow today? Or why I adhere to an idea or ideology although I should actually long since have recognized that its direction does not agree with the teaching of the One I wish to follow? Am I ready to “swim free” and learn to think and act independently and in personal responsibility? Do I want to let my soul breathe freely and step by step become the strong and radiant child of God that my soul has long desired to be?
The words of your Scriptures, “Test everything, and hold fast to what is good,” can be a help to you only if you know what standard you must apply to your testing. And even then you do not get much further, because knowledge alone is of no use to you. You must carry the standard within yourselves, you must have tested it and gained experience with it. The standard is called love. If you apply this standard to everything you want to recognize as good or not good, you will very quickly notice whether action is being taken in My spirit or not; and it is not decisive whether My name is being spoken in connection with it.
Then you will also be able to distinguish whether the fruits are actually good or whether they taste sweet only for a short time but later leave a bland or bitter taste. And from the quality of the fruits you can easily infer the seed and those who sowed it; not in order to condemn, but in order to decide whether you want to follow the seed and fruits of the opposing side or come into inner freedom and find safety in Me, who became your brother in Jesus.
Freedom and love are at the same time signposts and goal. It is indispensable to make them companions on your way, even if at the beginning of your effort they do not yet have the high value they will one day have. What matters is that you begin—begin more strongly—to direct your steps homeward. My love takes you by the hand in this. Where could you be better sheltered than at My side when the storm begins to unfold its full strength?
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Most of you know the saying “Safety exists only in God.” It is not easy to anchor this truth firmly in the depths of the heart and build your earthly life upon it in trust, against all the doubts and reservations that repeatedly arise. It becomes hard and harder when times lose their comfort and clouds of fear and worry rise on the horizon. Then it can be helpful to recognize the law behind these words so that from mere belief in them knowledge and experience finally arise, so that your truth and your conviction grow out of them.
If and because My law stands above everything and embodies love and omnipotence, how could it then be possible for My power to be unable to protect those who place themselves under its protection? It may be, however, that you do not want to walk the protected path I have intended for you because it does not correspond to your ideas.
One of your sayings is “There’s a catch.” This applies also to the protection I want to grant you, though in a somewhat different sense. The “catch” is that it lies in the free decision of the human being whether he wishes to entrust himself to My guidance or not. My fatherly love, which is life in everything, is available to everyone forever and in full measure. The stronger the trust, the more sincere the effort, the more intimate our inner togetherness and the greater the desire to become love again step by step, the closer the human being comes to My heart.
Thus he himself determines the measure in which My divine guidance can become effective within him, which is equivalent to the human being freeing himself more and more from the bondage of his ego. If he is ready to give love greater importance in his life, “miracles” will happen, though they are not miracles for those who recognize My laws and live according to and with them.
For better understanding, perhaps the following image can serve as an example: If the brightness of a light bulb is reduced by turning the knob on a dimmer, that changes nothing about the electricity that continues to be available in the same unrestricted measure; and it flows into the bulb again as before when the reduction is removed by turning the dimmer back up.
The human being himself therefore has it in his hands to determine the extent and effectiveness with which My love can accompany and protect him. In this way he says yes or no to Me, but not with words; rather, with the heart and the actions that follow. This is the other side of the coin called “free will,” which the human being so gladly enjoys to the full without thinking of later; something of which he is anyway far too seldom aware because the connections between the seed he himself has sown and the harvest that results from it have been withheld from him.
In order not to be blown like a leaf in the wind, now in one direction and now another by unknown forces, it is important that you know about these connections. It is important for the development of your souls that you become independent beings who decide, by their own choice, about their present and future life. You must learn to see through the satanic game on this earth and—at My hand—to find and walk your own path in the confusion full of contradictions, acting in personal responsibility.
If you recognize the truth in My words and place My law first, then you also recognize that all human effort and every solution, however ingenious, are ineffective in the long run. And not only that: They lead ever deeper into the mire, from which only a conscious life according to the commandments of love for God and neighbor can free you. The “world” will not take this step—will no longer be able to take it, because it has allowed itself to be seduced and paralyzed. But those who give credence to My words and take My hand I will lead into freedom.
What is meant by “taking My hand”? I remind you of the image of the pilot, which I have used more than once. When you come to Me within yourselves and have the desire and readiness to go through your day, your whole life, even more closely with Me than before, you thereby invite Me to come aboard the ship of your life as pilot. In a stormy night and in unknown waters it is more urgent than ever to have someone on board who knows the way.
No good captain will interfere with the pilot whom he himself invited because he trusts his abilities, or ignore his recommendations or decisions. If he does so nevertheless, because through free will he has the possibility, the pilot will step into the background or leave the ship again—but will immediately be there once more when, recognizing his mistakes, the captain makes a renewed request for guidance.
From what does or does not come upon you when you trust Me, you will easily be able to determine whether My laws stand above human conduct that does not include Me in its thinking and acting. Put Me to the test if you want further experiences with Me, and you will recognize and feel the truth in My words spoken out of love.
The great ones of this world will lose their masks. They will stand bare and naked and have to understand that all their maneuvering helped them nothing. If they do not gain this insight during earthly life, they will encounter the fruits of their seed in the beyond. One day a light will come on within them as well—in the truest sense of the phrase—and illuminate their inner being. Then they too will bow before My law, which is love and will bring them back as well.
The task of those who love Me is to help bring light into the darkness of the coming time. They will succeed best if they loosen their bonds and thereby become free so that they can no longer be deceived and manipulated.
Rise, My son, My daughter! Rise within yourself, become and remain light, and in this way proclaim My love.
Amen