Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 348

Only My reward lasts forever!

10th February 1845, Greifenburg

To Julie Martha H. on her name day

[1] So you may talk to the one you came to Me for: One says in the world: Playing lyre is better than celebrating. But so it shall not be with Me; because with Me, the one applies as little as the other.

[2] The kingdom of heaven suffers force at all times; those who do not seize it by force will not possess it! That is why playing lyre is of no more use there than the complete celebration. Who, however, plays lyre around My kingdom, who in his worldly zeal does only so much for Me that he just does not completely forget of Me and wants to drag Me along beside the world, but when he often completely forgets of Me in worldly affairs, it is he who celebrates!

[3] But I am not throwing My kingdom on the back of the lyre player as of the reveler; but whoever wants to possess My kingdom, which is eternal life, must approach it completely earnestly, without playing lyre and celebrating. Otherwise he will also overtake the wages of the lyre players and revelers, which shall be like the harvest of him that sowed the seed on the way, upon stones and among thorns.

[4] So you may announce this to your girlfriend and say that this is My unified and eternal wish and will, that she and her brothers and sisters should not turn to playing lyre or even less to celebrating; for all the world's pay is small and lasts short, only My reward lasts eternally!

[5] But what have you, if you have served the world for a few pennies all day long? I tell you, the next day will take it away from you again, and this so on until the end of your life on earth – and on the last day of farewell from the world, you will stand barer than a prayer house mouse! What about you then?

[6] Therefore rather gather treasures for yourself, which neither rust nor be destroyed by moths and which will not consume the days of the earth, so you will find a rich treasure in My kingdom on the day of parting, on the day of resurrection, forever. Amen! This says the Lord, the Truthful One forever. Amen, Amen, Amen.