BD 4403 12.8.1948

Measure of charity: self-love ....

What you want to receive, what you wish to be given to you, you must also give to your neighbour if he asks you for it .... This is love for your neighbour, which is measured according to your love for yourselves. If you pray from abundance and don't feel the need to make your fellow human being happy, this is not neighbourly love according to My will either. The feeling of love must always drive your actions and that is why I have given you the standard of self-love as a comparison, because how you give is also decisive for the degree of neighbourly love.

Just as you wish to be given, you should also give out if you want to find grace before My eyes. And thus, if you are meagre with evidence of love, if you only ever want to receive it yourselves and never satisfy your fellow human being's desire, you will not fulfil My commandment which demands love and then you will not be able to receive what comes forth from Me as evidence of My love either. .... you can never receive My Word directly, and if it is offered to you by worthy representatives of My teaching you will accept it without understanding; you will certainly listen to it but it will not penetrate your heart because the spirit in you is not awakened as a result of unselfish activity of love.

And so I tell you again and again, observe yourselves, practise love and sharp criticism of yourselves, in what degree of love you are towards your neighbour, and then put aside your self-love and sacrifice .... give that which is dear to you and from which you do not want to part. And if your heart tears itself away from what you would like to keep and love drives you to renounce it, then you have already progressed far in your development, for then the spirit is active in you which guides you into all wisdom. And you will receive spiritual as well as earthly goods as you distribute them; but anyone who is frugal and leaves his fellow human beings destitute, even though he has the opportunity to make them happy through actions of love, will also go empty-handed himself, for he does not fulfil My commandment, on which I also make the measure of My gifts of grace dependent, for My Word says: 'As you measure out, so shall it be measured out to you ....'.

Amen

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