BD 3360 8.u.9.12.1944

Instrument of God requires total submission and surrender to God ....

Whoever is given the grace to be able to be active in enlightenment is also in a service relationship with God, i.e. he has offered himself to Him of his own free will and has been accepted. And therefore he is now also prepared by God Himself for His service. The human being's will must therefore have become active first. Consequently, it is not an arbitrary preference of a person by God but an effect of free will which is paired with serving neighbourly love.

This gives people proof of what the right will and loving activity is capable of, what strength is released through both and how obviously God expresses Himself if the human being establishes the intimate connection with Him. A conscious will to serve Him must be manifested, the human being must completely place his will under God's will, he must give himself to Him with body and soul, only then can God work through Him, thus things can be accomplished which seemingly surpass human abilities.

Wanting to serve God is the most beautiful and successful task on earth, but this requires complete submission. The human being must allow himself to be drawn and guided, he must not do anything on his own, he must place himself in God's hands and only want to live for God's pleasure, then God will take hold of him and his path will be marked out from the start. The human being no longer needs to fear going wrong if he has expressed his God-centred will to Him through his request to want to serve Him. The human being's task on earth is to serve in love, and he can do this at any time and in any place, in all circumstances of life and in all works of creation ....

And if he makes himself available to God he will be admitted to a great serving task .... to contribute to the human being's spiritual development. He is used, as it were, as God's instrument to convey His will to his fellow human beings. Yet this ministry requires the abandonment of one's own will, for it is a spiritual mission which requires the strong will to abandon earthly well-being, i.e. physical desire, and to become completely spiritually attuned. And this will has to overcome all resistances and constantly fetch the strength from the intimate connection with God. As long as the strength of such a will is not mustered, he is not suitable for this service.

But God knows about the will of man, about his ability and about using it of his own free will. And therefore He will grant the right people His grace to be able to work for Him on earth. Profound humility and a strong will must prevail in the one who wants to serve Him on earth by setting the redemption of the unfree spiritual as his goal and tackling his work in prayer for God's help. Yet only few apply themselves to God for this work on earth, and therefore it is an extraordinary phenomenon that God Himself instructs a person in a way which makes His working evidently recognisable.

Humanity is already too far removed from God to have any understanding for it, even if it still acknowledges God according to the Word and does not deny His omnipotence and love. But as soon as this omnipotence and love gives a visible sign it does not recognise God in it, instead it doubts that He obviously expresses Himself, and for them He is a distant being. But God wants to bring Himself close to people, He wants to inform them that they are able to feel Him daily and hourly if they attune themselves correctly to Him, if they seek Him and desire to enter into contact with Him.

And for this purpose He makes use of a willing earthly human being who has desired His nearness and who should and can now provide his fellow human beings with the evidence that and how God expresses Himself when the human being reveals himself to Him. It depends on the person's will whether he is able to recognise Him, and in order to change this will, if he is still turned away from God, he should be instructed, he should be given the knowledge of God's will in order to voluntarily submit himself to it, for only then will he be able to feel God's nearness and only then can he receive strength for his soul's ascent development.

But since this is the human being's final goal on earth and at the same time signifies complete union with God, the beginning has to be made .... , the human being's desire to join God has to be awakened. Yet this desire is only awakened when the human being recognises God as love, and this, in turn, is the result of his own activity of love. But since the human being is devoid of all knowledge at the beginning of his embodiment, this must first be imparted to him, that is, he must first be taught the divine commandments so that, by fulfilling them, he then puts himself into a state which brings him closer to God. Faith in God must come alive in him ....

And therefore God reveals Himself to people again and again, He gives them evidence of His love, power and wisdom. Yet this is only possible through people so as not to force faith .... it is only possible through people who no longer resist Him but are completely devoted to Him. He uses them to bring Himself close to all people. The human being himself is only an instrument of God through whom His will is expressed. But the fact that he is used by God as an instrument is the result of his complete devotion to Him. He will never be called upon to perform such a task against his will, for he stands in the midst of a flow of grace, the influx of which, however, requires his opening, otherwise grace could not be supplied to him in this measure.

God certainly needs servants on earth, but they must be willing to serve Him voluntarily, only then are they suitable as an instrument and their work on earth will be successful. It is not spiritual coercion on the part of God which is exerted on those servants, instead, through their will they have to provide evidence themselves of the strength and wisdom the human being can attain who surrenders his will to God and accepts unmeasured grace from Him. He shall be an example for his fellow human beings which shall serve them as an incentive, for only then will they develop upwards when they start their soul's work with the surrender of their own will, when they fully consciously strive towards God by fulfilling His commandments. Then they, too, will feel the strength, they will recognise God and learn to love Him and reach their goal on earth .... to find unity with God, as is their destiny ....

Amen

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