BD.8673
November 14, 1963

ONLY FILIAL RELATIONSHIP TO GOD GUARANTEES A TRULY LIVING DIVINE SERVICE

Many people believe to be thinking and acting religiously, but they lack the right attitude towards Me. The do look upon Me as their God and Creator, but not as their Father. Consequently, they do not establish the relationship of a child to its father.

Therefore, they will not pray to Me confidently, since they see in Me only the distant GOD, who is almighty and to whom they, as human beings, are subjected. They will rather fear than love Me, not yet recognising My true nature.

And again it must be stressed that the degree of love in a man determines his right attitude towards Me, that love will also recognise the Father who is Himself love! Then man will press forward lovingly to me and call to Me as My child.

Only then may one speak of 'a religious way of living', for then this will also lead back to Me.

But while I am still the distant God and Creator for a person, who must be feared because of His might, there is little chance of being approached with love. Such a person will merely fulfil, as a matter of form, all that his church demands of him. His upbringing will determine his attitude, not a change in his inner being which is the very purpose and goal of life on earth.

Therefore, if you people experience heavy reverses of fate, they are only meant to make you come alive, to forego mere formality and start thinking more about Him Who created you; to start pondering why you are living on earth and then voluntarily surrender to that power to which you owe your life. Indifference towards Me cannot bring you any spiritual progress.

If you seriously desire clarification as to what your God and Creator demands of you during your temporal life, you are quite sure to receive it. And, therefore, your first step should be to ponder upon the nature of your God and Creator and the activity of love will be aroused within you, because it is My voice that speaks to you through your conscience making Myself known to you.

If you follow the voice of your conscience you get closer to Me and establish a connection with Me corresponding to the relationship between a child and its father. My gentle voice will always direct you towards activity of love which will then bring you the light of recognition and through it the comprehension of My nature which in Itself is love.
Then you will leave behind the empty formalities and become alive in your essence and actions. You no longer perform any formal acts, but begin to lead a second life beside your earthly life. You have set out on the spiritual path, for your inner self presses forward towards Me as a result of your new life within love.

And so you know that everything is good and acceptable to me that tends toward love, is taught by love and is the activity of love. For love is the gauge of truth, and it is also the gauge of the spiritual maturity of the one who wants to lead his fellow-men on earth as My representative.

As long as he lacks love, his 'preaching' will be ineffective; it will be a formal, inanimate service of benefit to no one because I Myself am distant to him since only idle words are spoken that can never reach My ear. Only a close relationship with Me, established through love, will make your thinking, willing and acting come alive. Only then you yourselves come alive, who are dead as long as you have no love.

Consequently, the taking part in a 'divine service' is only an external formality and there can be no question of My presence as long as you people believe only in a God and Creator, but do not find the right attitude towards Me. You must first come as children to their father and converse with Me confidently, only then you can be sure that I am present. Then also your faith has come alive, for a child will always endeavour to fulfil its father's will, and it will no longer just comply with external formalities, but long with all its heart for My presence, which it will also enjoy.

I only want you to come alive, to abandon useless habits and rites, which you were brought up to observe, but which are and remain of absolutely no benefit for your soul. Only when you recognise Me as a father, will you be able to love Me, and only then will you fulfil the purpose of your life on earth. Only then can you mature which is always achieved by love alone. (Revelation 3:20)

AMEN