BD.7656
July 26, 1960

THE SOUL WILL REAP WHAT IT HAS SOWN

Do not indulge in deceptive ideas that you can collect treasures for your earthly life, because these you will lose again more quickly than you have obtained them. I warn you, not to strive after earthly goods and to hang your hearts on them, and I show you again and again how transient is what belongs to the world.

How much time and effort do you spend in gathering the treasures of the world, and how rarely do you consider that you cannot hold them; that you must give them up, and that they may be taken away from you in another way, when this is My Will.

You only appreciate what belongs to the world and what yet is perishable, but the everlasting you do not appreciate. You take care only of your body and do not think about your soul; thus you use your Force of life wrongly; you use it only for your bodily comfort, but thoughtlessly you prepare for the soul an unblessed destiny in the Eternity. Because during the life on Earth you do not give to the soul what alone serves to its perfection; you let it starve while you look too much after your body, without ever having any benefit from it.

Your life on Earth can be brought to an end from one day to the next and then you enter poor and empty into the beyond and have to suffer great pain. You should dwell on the fact, that you do not have your life in your hands; that your life on Earth can be only of short duration and that death may approach you any day and you cannot hinder it.

You should think on the "there-after". But you believe that you are extinguished at the moment of death; you do not believe in the life of the soul after death, and that this life will then be according to your behavior on Earth, and to your care about the Salvation of your soul. And this unbelief is also the reason why you live in thoughtless existence, and that you do not even ask for the sense and purpose of your life on Earth. You are satisfied when you get on Earth what you like; when you provide for your bodily comfort and collect many earthly riches for the future. And you do not know whether you have a future at all.

All of you know that one day you must die. And this knowledge should make you consciously evaluate your life on Earth. But it is the faith that you are short of; the faith in a GOD and Creator, Who will ask from you responsibility for your conduct on Earth. And because you do not believe, you are indifferent. But the hour of the responsibility comes, of that you can be sure, and your repentance will be a bitter one when you find yourself in the greatest spiritual poverty and then you will realize what you have neglected on Earth, through your own fault.

Because it is by Grace that you were allowed to receive a body to live on Earth. And not to have used this Grace the soul will bitterly regret because it can never make up for what it neglected; however in the beyond-kingdom it will be helped to rise from the depth, but under much more difficult circumstances than it is or was possible on Earth.

You should not live so thoughtlessly because for every man comes the hour when he must leave the earthly body and then the soul enters the spiritual realm. Though this hour can bring great Bliss and Joy, it can also bring darkness and pain, but always as man hay wanted it.

He will reap what he has sown. He will either enter the realm of Light and Bliss, or darkness will receive him and will not let him go free until the soul has changed its "opinion" and then will he walk with loving support the path to the height.

AMEN