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Wise Soul Care
27th May 1842
Above all beloved Father in Jesus the Lord, would you not like to give me a very short, pleasing word for a daughter of Ans. H.-W., whose name day is tomorrow? I indeed do not know whether she has a living desire for it. But if she had one and I brought her nothing from you, she might well think herself that perhaps I had not brought her a little word from You out of a supposed annoyance she felt at her sometimes somewhat repulsive behavior toward me (thereby wanting to punish her in a way). Therefore, if it were your holy will, I would even be willing to write something, You dear Father You! On this request, the servant Jakob Lorber received the words from the Father:
[1] Has this strongly outward looking child asked you then therefore? You say, "No, not that!" And when you ask Me whether she has perhaps secretly asked Me for it full of love and confidence – see, there I also cannot give you any other answer than exactly that which you gave Me on My question.
[2] What are we to do here, therefore, where no living desire is underlying? Shall we throw the living word after such children on their backs, or shall we stuff them with it, as a farmer's wife does with her fowls?
[3] Oh, we don't do that! Do you understand!? For if we were to do so, this super-nourishing gift would soon diminish in it’s highest value like bad paper money!
[4] Behold, therefore we do not do such things sooner than until we are actively approached for it!
[5] But this girl has now filled her heart with all sorts of thoughts of young men and marriage, and she lets her eyes, like her heart, leap all around someone who greeted her from afar. Behold, in such heart- and eye-activity we two will easily be held counsel!
[6] Do you know what congratulation would be the dearest to this girl? Behold, if I were to give her, instead of a living word, a young, rich and beautiful bridegroom – that would now be dearer to her than I and you and in addition a whole book of the most living word!
[7] But I say this also only to you, so that you may recognize from it on what ground is the heart of those, who admittedly also call Me and sometimes even sigh to Me in secret like love, but not that they would perhaps prefer Me above the world; but only so that I would become quite supple, to give them as soon as possible what their heart thirsts for!
[8] Such ones care very little for the heaven which I want to give them; but they want only that heaven which they have built for themselves out of their desires!
[9] Oh see, how much better I know people than you! Behold, the countryman prays to Me when it is dry, for a rain. And if it rains too much, again for sunshine! A merchant prays that he would buy quite cheap and sells quite sinfully expensive. The usurer even creates a pious foundation so that only quite bad, lean years are to come. The lottery player often prays his tongue sore for a hit. A girl busily goes to church and dresses up as if she were going to a theater – why then? Perhaps out of love for Me? Oh no! – but that she either on this seemingly pious occasion would want to encounter one whom she wants to see rather than Me; or that she would ask for a husband as soon as possible!
[10] Behold, therefore I am well worshiped as means, but not as an end! One turns to Me because of the world, but not for My sake!
[11] From such love, however, I tell you, both of us will certainly not bite down much! Or would you be well served, if any girl would do nice to you in order to win another person for her heart through you? What would you do with such a lover?
[12] Wouldn't you tell her: "Hear, you deaf and loose flatterer! What you carry in your heart, turn also yourself there! The one you love will surely be closer to you than I am! Therefore leave me free until you will draw near to me out of love for me!"
[13] Behold, thus also I answer! For I do certainly not let Myself be used as a negotiator! Whoever loves Me, must love Me for the sake of Myself, but not for the sake of worldly advantages – and I will therefore give him My love, which is true, eternal life; and everything that is Mine, will also be his.
[14] But who seeks Me only because of worldly advantages – indeed, he is more annoying and unbearable to Me than one who has never sought Me, neither in the one nor in the other respect. Such parasites can always stay away from Me; for I am disgusted by them!
[15] Behold, for this reason I cannot give ear to your request today either! Hence let your girl be until her heart will take another direction! Then she can also receive something from Me – but not in this condition! I want indeed to be very generous, but always at the right time and in the right place!
[16] But announce to J. Martha and the more secular P. H. that I am fully serious about their salvation, and that they are therefore also to take it completely seriously with My love for them. And one I shall bless, but the other I gently admonish! Amen.
[17] This I say about whom you asked – since I know people better than you! Understand it well! Amen.