BD.7898
May 22, 1961

THE FATHER SPEAKS TO HIS CHILDREN

O that you would only let MY speaking to you satisfy you. O that you would only accept MY Word, letting it move earnestly in your heart and then living accordingly to it.

You would then surely experience the power of MY Word. You would then become acutely aware that your Father, Who loves HIS children and wants to give them only the best, has spoken to you.

Again I say to you that it is only MY endless Love, that you see, that you exper- ience, and that surrounds you that is the reason for all this. I constantly prove MY Love for you, but you do not recognize it. You demand other proofs to accept the Truth of MY revelations. You yourself want to be spoken for though I speak to you when MY Word resounds from Above.

Think about this: you are MY creatures gone forth from ME but you must return to ME as "children". This transformation to MY children you must accomplish yourself. It depends on yourself, if and when you achieve this. You can carry out this transformation in your innermost being if you earnestly strive to reach this goal in your earthly life. If you will restore this union with ME in your heart then you will also hear MY speaking to you in your heart and be happy.

The Father will speak to HIS child when you yourself restore the right relation- ship between the child and his Father. Then the child will hear the voice of the Father and no longer doubt that the Father is speaking to him.

Every man to whom I speak directly must have this maturity. Words alone do not prove this close relationship. You must not only be MY child in faith, but you must also strive to be MY true child. This is the aim of MY speaking from Above, to enable MY creature to live a life that makes him a true child who fulfills the will of the Father in everything and to whom I can speak as a Father speaks to HIS child.

MY Word which resounds from Above, reveals to you again and again MY exceeding great Love for you. MY Love is so great that, although you have not reached the degree of maturity that makes you worthy to hear ME directly, MY direct speaking to you is offered as a Grace. Because MY Love for you has not diminished since your fall from ME, I overlook your defective condition and grant you Grace in abundance.

The receiving of the Word through which I give you knowledge of MY Being should be seen by you as being as great a mercy as Love, Wisdom and Might. Whoever accept MY word knows also that he will be constantly followed by MY Love which cares for and protects him, will not let him get lost, and will prepare for him everlasting happiness.

Such a man needs no further proof of MY Love because his heart senses this Love as soon as he opens himself to ME in free will. Then he knows that he is MY child and will remain so forever. As long as he seeks ME and responds to the Love which I give him, he will remain closely united with ME. Anything external is foreign to him. His inner life is completely spiritually oriented, so that the external life hardly affects him.

His soul's maturity is now recognized by the fact that he himself now radiates Love and not by those gestures, which anyone can use, even if they have not as yet achieved maturity of their souls.

You must not judge by externals because they could conceal an inner life undetectable by you but known by ME. So also you must not take offense at MY Word, MY external Word, accepting it only with your intellect. But you must let it touch your heart. Then it will do a work in you, but only as you live it out, when you do MY Will. MY Word itself will convince you. And it will convince you as soon as your will is surrendered to ME, and as soon as you earnestly seek ME, your Father from Whom you once came forth.

AMEN