Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 322

A word to the servant

8th February 1844

[1] What do you care if someone says this or that to you? Look upon Me, your Lord, and you will see very clearly with Me all the opposition that come to you only in the slightest measure!

[2] See the 7th chapter of John, verses 1-5, where you will see how even My most faithful brothers, the apostles, have dealt with Me, since it was not right for them that I kept quiet for a short time in Galilee and fled from Judea, where My life was sought after.

[3] I was accused by the apostles, by My most faithful brethren, of lukewarmness and losing My zeal! Would you like to be better at it than I? Look, look, how foolish you think!

[4] Behold, if you were a writer, I would never have chosen you! For the eager writers like to smuggle and sell among My real goods also their own on My account! But it is precisely for this reason that I chose you – because you are not a writer – to bring My goods once completely pure before the world precisely through this! But if it is also still misunderstood in this purity, then woe to the world of this time!

[5] I prefer zeal to lukewarmness with everyone. You, however, must be as sluggish as a piece of blotting paper, through which an impure liquid can be filtered through completely! For in your zeal you could bring so many things from your own head among what is Mine. But because I leave you no zeal of your own, but you must do everything only out of My zeal, without your free will receiving some compulsion in the process, so My product come to daylight in purity!

[6] In this you may find your excuse sufficiently. And therefore no-one is to bind himself to your, but only to My zeal! To whom that is not enough, he will not fare well!

[7] And it has to remain with what is said, for ever and ever! For no-one is saved through the zeal of My servants, but through My zeal, which is My love for you all! Amen. Understand this well!