Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 372

Reminder to love and patience

14th March 1847

[1] Dear friends, brothers and children! I, the Lord, your God, Father, Master and Brother, I, your Teacher and Leader, make you known and know that I like to see it always as also now, if you come together in My name at any time and have good discussions out of Me and from the love of the neighbor. For such good discourses exhilarate the spirit and delight the mind, and that is good. For you are to be cheerful at all times in My name and also refresh your body with good food and good drink in the just measure and goal-oriented.

[2] But listen! You should have invited someone who was among you, whether he was coming or not. It doesn't matter whether he is there or not; because that is on his account – but you want to leave him out, that is on your account again. And it will hurt him seriously if he finds out, either here or there. He indeed behaves in such a way that it seems as if you and Me are in a certain way ignored by him. But that is not completely so.

[3] He himself accuses himself of having sinned against you, and has not the courage to confess to you what oppresses him. That is why it always costs him a little effort to come to you. For this your brother has a well-adorned heart, but in which only a weak spirit dwells; hence the man also possesses more power in his soul than in his spirit. But that is why you also have to have the right indulgence, patience and love with him if you want to be true walkers on My ways.

[4] For look, people with a delicate heart, strong souls, but weak spirits, are very sensitive and often notice the smallest differences of mind in their friends, which hurt them very much because their soul is extremely sensitive in it’s often very isolated self-power.

[5] But if anyone feeds this sensitivity, he sins against his brother. Because someone already sees the weakness of the brother, but acts in front of him as if he were a strong spirit, and the weak brother is angry because of it, such an act is a sin, no matter how righteous in the eyes of a strong spirit . Because the spirit cannot be annoyed, but the soul can be harmed by annoyances. Therefore these are to be avoided for the most wise reasons.

[6] But love and patience are worth endlessly more than all wisdom and all righteousness. Therefore always keep love and her sister, patience, and sin will become an impossibility for you.

[7] According to righteousness it would also have been right, if I had let the adulteress be stoned to death according to My own laws given by Moses. For the public law was that every adulteress should be stoned to death. But there My love, patience and mercy took the place of hard justice. And these not only did not let the great sinner be stoned and killed, but wrote her guilt together with the hard laws of justice for all times of earthly life in the sand and transferred the former judgment of love of each one to himself and over himself, so that each one finds himself and judges according to his love for ever and ever.

[8] Therefore remove from your heart what has only the faintest appearance of a so-called "revisiting"! For that makes your heart look different from Mine; and that should not be with you, My children.

[9] And finally a little word about My servant, who was given to you as a great blessing and was awakened seven years ago and whom I led away from you for a short time because of you and him!

[10] Whatever you have done to him, you have done to Me; and whatever else you do to him, you do to Me; and whatever else you want to do to him, of all this a great treasure will be given to you in heaven, as it has already become bodily to you in all fullness of love and wisdom – in which you are to find and have for ever the kingdom of life, which is My great grace, which you have and which is withheld from millions.

[11] But in this grace you may now also accept My Fatherly blessing, which is to remain with you for ever, if you live according to My Word. Amen.