BD 3356 4.12.1944

Preaching love for the sake of one's own advantage ....

It is not in accordance with God's will if His Word is used as a means to achieve earthly goals ..... if it is used to induce a fellow human being into loving activity in order to gain personal benefit from it. This is a misuse of the divine Word and an injustice against the neighbour, for he is, so to speak, urged to be lovingly active, yet always under pressure which does not allow his love to develop. The obvious purpose deprives him of the joy of loving activity, and spiritual progress is rarely achieved.

The divine Word certainly teaches love, yet it is not the deed itself which is valued but the degree of love in which the deed is carried out. If an earthly goal is the reason for the activity of love, the deed itself can certainly be carried out but the feeling of love can be completely lacking, and then it is a dead work which is accomplished .... but the human being believes to have fulfilled the divine commandment of neighbourly love.

But the human being who influences his fellow human being to carry out a deed for the sake of an earthly advantage by reproaching him for the divine commandment of love .... is worthy of condemnation. The latter can listen to the reproaches, he can do what is demanded of him and yet inner love can be completely absent. But the human being does not give an account of his inner feelings but is satisfied with having done an act which apparently corresponds to the divine commandment of love.

But the human being who strives for his own advantage and seeks to induce his fellow human being does not himself observe the commandment of unselfish neighbourly love but seeks to harm his fellow human being. Consequently, he is not justified in invoking the divine commandment of love; he thereby makes himself sinful, for this is no teaching and no educating to love, but the deed itself is given more priority. But love alone is decisive for the soul's progress .... And this way of preaching love can often be found where earthly goals are being pursued which require people's cooperation .... goals which signify an increase in power and which cannot be reconciled with true neighbourly love.

And then the divine commandments come into a false light with those who earnestly strive and now become suspicious because the representatives of this doctrine of love obey it least of all and do not bestow true, unselfish love upon their neighbour. The divine Word is misused but people seek cover behind this Word by citing it, yet it is not followed by the representatives of the divine teaching who strive for earthly goals .... Power and wealth. And these inflict damage on humanity which, however, is rarely recognised, because a person who believes himself to be lovingly active does not practise love .... but the love of the heart must irrevocably impel him into action .... because only this love is redeeming, and only this love connects the human being with God ....

Amen

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