BD.6329
August 9, 1955

UNREMITTING STRIVING TOWARDS THE GOAL

Everything is to serve you towards maturing, and thus each day can enable you to ascend in your development, if only you are mindful at all times of God directing your destiny, and that everything comes as is best for your soul. The body of course shall often have to suffer; your life shall often seem troubled, worries shall often oppress you, and you shall become timid and disheartened. - Yet nothing comes over you by chance, and your Father in heaven is aware of all, and hence also your condition, as it is He Who has predetermined same for you to help you aloft.

But you yourselves can either improve or worsen your state, since you only need to take the right road to find help, just as you shall on the other hand, through resentfulness and aversion be burdened more by your state, and suffer doubly because you grumble.

Yet there is One Who is always waiting for your call, because He wants to help you, but first wants to hear your call in order to then prove His love to you. This One wants to help you and can help you, yet demands your faith in His love and power. You should at all times acknowledge Him as a God of love, even if you have to suffer, or where His love for you is not evidently recognisable.

Only love moves Him to action, and only love causes Him to among other things grab hold of mankind indelicately, so that they would not again be lost for eternities. But whoever entrusts himself to His outsize love shall soon be led out of affliction, because God asks no more than man's full devotion to Him.

Hence he shall soon be rid of worry and suffering, since God's love takes this away from him again as soon as he has established the right relationship with God, or firmed it. Then the purpose has been achieved and another level reached; then the soul has ascended a step higher, followed by an ensuing period of peace, which is to serve man for self-determination.

He is to unremittingly strive for the height and must not tire; he has to fix his sights on his goal, the achieving of which is his earth task. - And if his striving comes to a halt, then unpleasantries shall soon turn up which are to remind him of his earth-task.

But whatever overtakes you, it shall of a truth be for the best of your soul, and you shall be able to overcome all with the help of Him Who carried the cross for you, He Who died for you on the cross.

Call upon Him in every spiritual and earthly distress, He knows about your affliction, he knows about all human weaknesses and wants and is ready at all times to help you; and through your call upon the name of Jesus Christ, - And this road is certain to lead you to your goal.

AMEN