BD 3266 23.9.1944

Spiritual rebirth ....
Grace ....

The act of grace of spiritual rebirth is a proof of the rightly utilised free will ..... For this spiritual rebirth is not brought about by divine will, otherwise no human being would remain in spiritual darkness, because God loves every one of His creatures and this love never grows cold. But the spiritual rebirth is a sign of progress, it is a step towards perfection, and this can only be achieved in free will. Nevertheless, spiritual rebirth is an act of grace, i.e. divine grace has brought it about, for without grace the human being is incapable of progressing even one step further on the path of perfection.

So free will has evaluated the divine grace available to the human being in the right way, he has allowed it to work on him, free will has desired and received it, and the effect of divine grace is spiritual rebirth. Hence, only someone who has consciously turned his will towards God, who strives towards Him and enters into contact with Him through heartfelt prayer and who therefore opens himself to receive His gift of grace .... His Word and with the Word of His power .... And thus the awakening of the spirit in the human being is an act of grace .... a manifestation of divine love, which now reveals itself to the human being through His spirit.

Without the will of the human being the awakening of the spirit does not come about, unless the soul is bound by the strong power of Satan, who controls it against its will ..... Then God can break Satan's power and liberate the spirit in the human being without his conscious intervention, since in such a possessed state he is deprived of his free will. Nevertheless, the soul then already has a certain maturity and is no longer opposed to God, thus as soon as the human being can dispose of his will again, he also turns to God. Then the grace of God appears even more obviously, because at the same time with the awakening of the spirit a healing of the sick is connected, which must always be considered (evaluated?) as a gift of grace from God.

But once the spiritual rebirth has taken place, the human being's will must constantly remain active, the human being must constantly ask for the influx of grace, he must constantly open himself to this grace and make use of it, because the awakening of the spirit actually means a constant reception of that which God's love bestows upon people for the attainment of perfection ..... And all this is grace .... but it can only be received by the human being if he opens himself to it of his own free will. Free will requests grace, free will accepts it, grace again awakens the spirit to life, and the spirit's activity is again the imparting of gifts of grace ....

For everything divine, if it is made accessible to the human being, is grace, because the human being in his lower state of maturity is not worthy to come into contact with divine gifts. Yet God's love overlooks the human being's unworthiness and grants him divine gifts as soon as the human being is willing to accept them. The will is manifested through prayer and through loving activity, for the latter is the direct connection with God which increases the human being's grace.

(9/23/1944) If a person is spiritually reborn then God's grace has taken effect in him, and then the person will also remain in His grace, for the spirit now guides and leads him and stimulates him into constant loving activity, as a result of which God's grace will constantly flow to him. And that is why a spiritually reborn person can no longer fall, he can no longer distance himself from God, because this is prevented by divine grace, God's love, which holds and constantly cares for the human being.

The human being truly does not deserve the abundance of grace available to him, for as long as he lives on earth he is not so good and perfect that he would be entitled to claim it, yet he can become so if he uses grace, for it is the means available to the human being to become perfect. Everything that helps the human being to develop upwards can be called grace. And so suffering is also a grace which, if used properly, can bring infinite blessings and ensure the soul's spiritual progress.

Suffering must also be accepted by the person whose spirit has awakened to life, who is thus spiritually reborn, for suffering is meant to mature him, it is meant to purify him, because no soul, not even the spiritually reborn, is already so clear and pure that it no longer needs a purification process. And that is why suffering is also to be regarded as grace, like everything else that helps the spiritually awakened to higher development. For to attain the highest possible maturity on earth should be the goal of the one who is spiritually reborn.

But without God's grace he cannot reach the goal, but with His grace he is able to do everything. But God leaves it up to him which measure of grace he wants to acquire, which measure of grace he requests and wants to receive by opening himself. The spiritually reborn person, however, will not slacken in his prayer for grace, and therefore he will constantly strive towards God and be seized by His love, which will never ever let him fall but constantly help his soul to ascend ....

Amen

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