Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 234

Christ lives in me!

22nd June 1842

[1] Just write, write! Because you only dimly remember in time, that was already clearest before Me from eternity!

[2] So give this hand- and heart note to the daughter of Ans. H.-W., who bears the name of My dear apostle Paul, and tell her that I let her be told through you:

[3] She should appropriate My word just as she has appropriated the name of the apostle through water baptism, which is to be her right name – not according to "Paulinus", also not according to "Paulina", but according to Paul, who was called Saul before and only then received the right name Paul from Me, which says everything in a heavenly way, what this great apostle out of Me did in My name.

[4] But as she carries his name, so she also is to carry in her heart what the apostle carried in his own, namely Myself completely, that is why he was also called Paul and could clearly say of himself: "Now I no longer live, but Christ lives in me!"

[5] But I say here: Blessed is he who with Paul is a "true Paul"! For although the name alone does not sanctify him, this name will nevertheless become a great testimony to him, if he carries it actively in his heart, as the apostle carried it.

[6] But I also say: Whoever will not be called "Paul" in his heart, he will not have a great part in My kingdom. For "Paul" says in a heavenly way: "Christ lives in me, and my whole being is a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit!"

[7] Behold now, little daughter, such says the name that you bear! Therefore seek in yourself the truth of this name which you carry, otherwise you always lie to yourself and Me as often as you say: "I am and is called Pauline," which means just as much as if you said, "Now I live perfectly! For not I, but the Spirit of divine love lives in me!"

[8] But that is why you are therefore to live faithfully in accordance with your name, so that it will not be taken away from you again when you will reach the revelation of the Spirit through the baptism of the Spirit and fire, which baptism is the full reception of eternal life!

[9] Behold, such I give you therefore in this your name day, so that you are to learn from it what this your name says and how you are to receive this name fully actively into your heart. And that is worth much more than gold and silver and all other treasures of the world!

[10] Become therefore a worthy bearer of your name! Thus first you will become a true, dear "Paulina" to Me now, as eternally. Amen.