I Appeal to You
... through Bertha Dudde  - 24.06.1952 

5405   The narrow path ....

I want to dwell in you, I want to reign in your hearts, yet with a love that shall fill you with joy. I want to be inside you .... This presence of Mine also makes you My children, then I will have come to My Own and they will have accepted Me .... All My love belongs to you who live on this earth as My living creations, it cares for you and leads you onto paths which, admittedly, are often stony and laborious to walk. I lead you, and yet again I stand at the goal and wait for you. Thus you have My everlasting assistance and no-one can say they have never experienced My help. However, if he does not follow My kind-hearted urging and loving call he will stay behind, and those who follow Me will make considerable progress .... and they will reach the goal .... I Myself draw them to My Fatherly heart and lead them into My house .... the child has found its way home to the Father from Whom it was separated for an infinitely long time due to its own fault .... It finally has found its way back because it entered the only path that leads to Me .... the path of love .... Yet it is not easy to cover this path, it offers no enticements, no feast for the eyes, it is not smooth and cannot be effortlessly walked but has to be scaled step by step because it leads steeply upwards and many obstacles will first have to be removed before it becomes passable .... But it is passable because a guide constantly walks by your side, supporting and protecting you, providing you with strength when you want to give up. He speaks to you full of love, He takes the burden off you which you have to carry, He carefully leads you across dangerous cliffs and is your constant companion .... Thus you are able to reach the goal, proving you have the will to do so .... But now you are also able to turn your sights to the wide path, and this wide path can easily appear desirable to you, for it is lined by all kinds of joys and pleasures. The loveliest images entice the pilgrim into daring the jump from the narrow, not easily passable path onto the wide beckoning road where many people gather to enjoy worldly delights .... The temptation is very great and many a person cannot resist it .... He leaves the laborious path, and he will always receive help in getting onto the wide path .... For figures are standing everywhere who beckon to him and offer their hand, who rejoice that they can entice the pilgrim away from the narrow path. The wide path, however, will not lead to the same goal .... it leads downwards, as sure as the narrow path leads to ascent.

This depiction makes it clear to you that the final goal can only be reached through effort, that it takes a certain struggle with oneself and with the difficulties which stand in his way. Thus, the human being can only reach the final goal if he takes it seriously, if he ignores all difficulties, if he only directs his eyes upwards where I beckon to him as a most glorious goal .... Then I Myself will carry his feet across the obstacles, then he will not see them but keep his bright gaze on Me as I extend My hand for him to hold on to, which lead him to the end of the path .... But how different is the life of those who walk along other paths .... How many joys and worldly pleasure can one person show, and how much deprivation, affliction and tribulation the other .... One person’s days are shaped full of variety, whilst the other only sees his and other people’s hardship and apart from his own he also carries his fellow human being’s burden because he is impelled to do so by love.

Yet the day of reckoning will come sooner or later, and this will turn out to be as the human being wanted it himself and how he demonstrated his desire .... He who strove spiritually, who did not forget about Me despite all tribulations but tirelessly walked towards Me, will receive spiritual possessions. But those who walked along the wide path will suddenly realise that it ends in the abyss .... The abyss will welcome all of them, for they constantly walked the path downwards, which certainly started with the best of intentions but they were soon abandoned, because the temptations dispelled all second thoughts, because sin becomes rife where My adversary is able to influence people’s souls. And the wide path has been laid out by him with the objective of ruining people. And thus you humans are enticed by two powers, and you can make your own decision, you can choose yourselves whom you want to strive for. You can become My children, but you can also remain his children ....

This is the decisions you humans have to take on earth. It is an extremely responsible decision, for it determines your whole eternity. This is why each of the two ruling powers sends out his messengers. There will be no-one walking the wide path who will not encounter people who warn and admonish him, for they stand by the wayside, they know the Lord Who alone can offer Salvation, and this realisation stimulates them to also inform their fellow human beings and to lure them away from the extremely dangerous wide path .... Influencing these travellers such that they will leave the wide path and join the pilgrims on the narrow path is rarely successful. The latter, however, are seized by My love and mercy and I make their ascent easy for them because they rose above themselves. And a glorious crown is beckoning to the victors .... they will be the first because they possess My whole Fatherly love, which I also wanted to give to the others but had to experience their rejection .... For anyone who walked the wide path walks without Me .... because the love of the world smothered all love for Me and other people and the gulf cannot be bridged without Me .... Walk love’s path to the cross .... love and suffer and bear your earthly burden with humility and submission and know that you thereby substantially shorten the path to Me, that your soul becomes increasingly brighter and more translucent the higher you rise .... Know that you will get ahead of the souls which did not emulate you, and that one day in the spiritual kingdom you will be able to affect those who stayed behind in their spiritual development, that you then should and will be able to help them so that they, too, will reach the light. For I cannot arbitrarily place those into the kingdom of light who failed in their earthly life, who did not live according to My will but allowed themselves to be controlled by the one who is My adversary .... Yet they shall not be lost forever .... And one day it will be your mission to save the souls from the darkness, to help them achieve beatitude, even though they will never reach the degree of light which is the result of a right path on earth ....

Amen

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