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Three Scripture Texts
8th February 1842, from 4 – 7 in the evening.
Writer: Marie H., Wilhelmine H., Pauline H. Acts 12:8: Then the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and tie up your soles. He did so. And he said to him, "Put on your robe and follow me. Mark. 6:51: And he entered to them into the ship, and the wind ceased. And they were amazed beyond measure. Acts 20:10: Paul climbed down to him, lay down on top of him, embraced him and said, "Be calm, for behold, his soul is still in him!
The servant of the Lord dictated the following about this:
[1] So also sometimes, seemingly by chance to the human eye, in autumn a small whirlwind gathers the leaves of different trees into a heap – and likewise also not seldom quite strange people come together, that it carries the undoubted appearance of chance in itself; as it also has the appearance of chance here, that these three different places, each of which is of a far different origin, were chosen here by you, My dear little children. But it is not so. That these aforementioned leaves of different trees, forced by the whirlwind, now form a little pile, that the three mutually foreign people form a good, friendly society, and thus also these three different passages were taken from the New Testament, is based on a cause that has been well-considered and well-ordered by Me since eternity.
[2] What more is there, a deaf sparrow on the roof, a gray hair on the head, or three passages of My Book filled with eternal life?
[3] But if I already take care of a deaf sparrow and re-count the gray hair on every man's head in every moment exactly so that without My will also not a sparrow falls from the roof and also only one hair on the head is disturbed; how much more will it matter to Me what is pious to you for eternal life! And so let us then see to what extent these three different passages you have chosen fit together perfectly.
[4] Behold, since My apostle was a prisoner and praised Me in prison through his living faith as well as through his great love as a prisoner, praised and called upon My living name in which lies hidden the greatest power, strength and might, then I sent a messenger from heaven to him as soon as possible, so that he should free him from prison. Now notice well, every good Christian – that is, a complete confessor of My word and my name in his heart – is more or less in a similar dungeon.
[5] The world is this dungeon, and into this dark dungeon I also constantly send redeeming messengers from heaven. And these messengers still have one and the same mission until this hour, that they may call out to all the captives: Gird yourselves with self-denial and tie the soles of humility to your feet, and then put on the robe of innocence and love – and finally: Follow Me courageously and confidently on the narrow path and through the narrow gate out of the dark and deadly dungeon of the world! Those who like the apostle once follow the call of the heavenly messenger in all things, these also will be freed from this dungeon completely and will be led by just this messenger to the shore of the great sea of mercy and grace, when they will see great waves of this sea beating on the shore as the ship awaits them for the passage into eternal life. Admittedly a great fear will certainly still move them when they see how much the ship intended for them still wavers over the waves of the holy endless sea of My mercy and grace. And the roaring wind over the waves will no less fill their hearts with trembling fear.
[6] But when they then, guided by the messenger, will enter the ship and will see Myself coming to them into the ship and the wind will immediately calm down and the sea calm down – how exceedingly astonished they will be to have found there already the most complete and supernatural eternal life, wherever they imagined in great fear and dread, the demise of their being.
[7] Behold, so we would have fitted the two passages together already, as if they had been connected with each other in the dearest way from eternity.
[8] So we want to try to adapt the third passage to the two previous ones completely. But so that you may also understand such things usefully, you must first still dedicate an attentive look back to the conditions on the ship.
[9] The state on the ship, namely from My perspective, equals or is rather the state of complete contrition before My infinite divine holiness. Although this state is inevitably necessary for the final attainment of the very freest eternal life, it is nevertheless a fall into the depths of one's own nothingness, killing all worldly things, by which fall man kills all worldly things in himself, that is, all thoughts, all desires, in short, everything down to the last penny, which had always clung to him in the world. In this state, he then appears as completely dead. But what now makes him alive again? Behold, that which the third passage here says: Paul, who there is a teacher of love – and so much says as My to life awaking love itself, descends on him, lies over him, embraces him completely and through and through, and says to the remaining fearful ones, which have not yet made this last fall: Be calm and do not be afraid because see, his soul, which is filled with My Spirit of eternal life, is still completely in him and will also remain forever and ever in the bosom of M infinite Fatherly love.
[10] And see that the matter thus behaves itself and this second and last state is necessary, you can recognize clearly through it that, if someone boards a ship on one shore, he surely wants to go to an opposite shore of destination. This last state, however, is the last destination-shore that every Christian brother who is equal to the apostle, should reach; because who therefore will not reach this last shore, he will also not be taken up into My bosom one day.
[11] Now see, My dear little daughters, how beautifully and certainly orderly these three different passages have fitted together, so to be sure, that they must remain together inseparably for the attainment of eternal life – you probably like that, don't you?
[12] But now I also tell you: Adapt these passages to your life in a lively manner, only then will you experience in abundance how exceedingly good, loving and merciful I, your true, holy Father, am. My blessing with you. Amen!