Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 349

What you do to the poor, you do to Me!

11th February 1845, Greifenburg

To Andr. H. W.

[1] My dear Andr. H.-W., what you do to the poor and what you do to My servant, you do this as completely directly to Myself; because in the poor I Myself am poor in the world, but in My servant I dwell for all of you as in the fullness of the power of the Word out of My eternal love and wisdom, which admittedly goes hand in hand with poverty in the world – when and where it comes, but is the richer in the spirit of eternal love from Me!

[2] If this love is also imprisoned in the dungeons of the world, which are the hard hearts there, it serves all of them nevertheless for the redemption from eternal death. And if this love is also poor before the world, yet it gives everything to all. Will it also be despised and ridiculed, it nevertheless hands out the greatest honors for eternity. Will it even be killed by many, it still, however, gives life to all. Will it be torn apart and martyred, thus it nevertheless gives everything it gives, perfectly! For crooked things it gives straight, for unequal things the same, for uneven things the even, for bitter things the sweet, for vinegar the best wine, for night the day – and so everywhere the good for the bad and the noble for the base!

[3] But if love already gives good for bad – what first can you, a giver of good, expect from this My love? Therefore do to My servant who has this My love in him what he desires, so your reward shall also be exceedingly great in this My love in the servant forever. Amen! This says the Eternal Love. Amen, Amen, Amen.

In the garment of poverty the Lord often comes to His children

[1] Do good to everyone! No-one is too small for you, no-one too great, for in the Kingdom of God, there is full equality of all statuses, of all nations. Only in the garment of poverty does the Lord very often come to His children on earth, but they do not recognize Him because their concepts of God in and of themselves are already arrogance. ('From hell to heaven' (Robert Blum), volume 2, chap. 275, 15; 276, 13. jl.rbl2.275,15; jl.rbl2.276,13)