BD 1806 11.2.1941

Cross bearing in patience and surrender ....

Unlimited possibilities open up to the human being if he is willing to shape himself according to God's will, if he consciously works on his soul. From the hour of recognition that his purpose on earth is the higher education of his soul, his earthly course is an endless series of opportunities where he can attain this spiritual maturity through self-conquest and active neighbourly love. And thus his earthly life will bring trials from hour to hour in which he shall prove himself .....

It will no longer pass him by without a fight but precisely in the struggle his will will be strengthened and his strength increased. Thus, life will appear to him to consist of resistance and hardship much sooner than he will be able to indulge in the unadulged joy of life. These are the first cliffs on which his little ship of life must not be wrecked; he must guide it around all cliffs with a sure hand and faithful trust in God, only then will he prove himself and make use of the possibilities for spiritual higher development.

Jesus Christ Himself has made it the task of mankind with the words: Whoever wants to follow Me must willingly take up his cross ..... He does not say that He wants to take away their cross, that He wants to relieve them; on the contrary, He announces to them that following Jesus consists of bearing the cross that He imposes on people. The unspeakable suffering that Jesus Christ took upon Himself was the atonement for the great sinfulness of humanity.

He bore His cross without grumbling and complaining. What He endured for humanity, therefore, wiped out their guilt, so to speak. Whoever wants to follow Jesus must also atone for sinful humanity, i.e. bear the suffering that humanity has brought upon itself through sin. Love for his fellow human being should now motivate him to suffer for his sin, i.e. to reduce the guilt of sin through suffering and thereby be active on earth in a redemptive way. And the loving human being will also always be willing to do so, for his soul knows about the oppressed situation of those who are entangled in great guilt of sin and wants to help them.

And therefore, every loving person will not rebel against divine will if it imposes a cross on him and his earthly life no longer passes in quiet peace. He knows that an existence without struggle would not be suitable for the soul's higher development, and therefore he does not rebel, even if the cross seems unbearable to him. And therefore the human being should not be despondent if his life is apparently more difficult than that of his fellow human being, yet God does not impose a heavier burden on the human being than he can bear, and it is the strength from God which makes this cross lighter for him ..... It is the supply of strength which the human being can consciously request but which must also be requested ....

Then, however heavy the cross may seem, it is no longer as heavy a burden as it was before. But to take up the cross of Christ means to submit to everything that God sends upon man without grumbling and opposition. For the smallest resistance cancels out the working of divine strength, and the human being has to struggle hard so that he can remain victorious in the battle of life and already be active on earth in a redeeming way ..... He only ever has to recognise God's love in all suffering, in the cross imposed upon him, which wants to let the human being attain spiritual perfection and is the quickest and surest way to take up the cross in all patience and surrender to God's will and to follow the divine Lord and Saviour ....

Amen

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