Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 437

Considerations for Married couples

20th February 1848

For Wilhelmine-Gabiela Hüttenbrenner:

[1] Just write, it's all right! Because I like to give, yes I like to give, I like to give to those who justly want something! But the daughter who has come of age also like to have something just. Therefore, something like that should be given to her with great pleasure!

[2] What she would like best is indeed a rather handsome, good and in years not too much advanced man. But there I must now already openly admit that I can do little or nothing in earnest in this relationship. For, since at present, in the case of marital regulations, it is not the man, but only his prosperity that is regarded as a value in relation to the man, and therefore only money provides men for the girls and women for the bachelors, I am completely unnecessary in these matters and have left all this to the world and no longer worry about it at all, except it must only be that someone turns to Me in all seriousness and leaves the world completely out of the game. There of course I would bless such a marriage and see to it’s progress.

[3] But when an unmarried couple ask each other and say: 'How much do you have? And how much you? And what position do you hold? What do you live from? And who are your parents? Are they of the nobility, or some other honorable class? " – then it is already over with Me! Because these are all worldly things that are very unwelcome to Me! And nobody will want to demand from Me that I should help someone with what pulls him completely away from Me and purely to hell, from which many can only be released with great difficulty and many can no longer be released at all!

[4] You can easily see that if one or the other asks Me for a man, I cannot answer such requests, especially if someone has already chosen something, but then still wants it from Me. Who has already taken it, how should I still be able to give him what he already has?!

[5] But I tell you, My little daughter, only look above all for Me, strive with all your might to deal with everything "world" and then expect everything else from Me – but with full faith! – in this way you will be provided with everything!

[6] For you know that no-one can serve two masters! And so I cannot serve Myself and Satan at the same time, but only Myself through love – but to Satan through the sharpest judgment!

[7] But whoever therefore wants something from Me, must also want purely only what is Mine, and not also a part of the devil.

[8] But now the whole world is already "purely of the devil". Therefore I can only apply My grace very sparingly here and there, especially since most people in the world are ashamed of it!

[9] You do not belong to this world and are not ashamed of My grace. But regardless of this, the world also affects you and has a lot that attracts your senses. But I advise you:

[10] If you make a firm covenant against the world with your senses, I will immediately establish a new, heavenly covenant with you.

[11] Of course, you say that it is not easy to do that! But I tell you: I know all this well, whether the thing is easy or a little more difficult. But whether it is easy or difficult for you, I still have to remain true to My eternal, inviolable order and can not let anyone see over a mountain until he has taken the effort to climb the mountain to the top.

[12] For see, as long as matter remains what it is – it is and remains opaque. So toil then, toil! No mountain is transparent. He who wants to see over the mountain must climb up, however high it may be!

[13] Think about these good sentences for you, My little daughter, quite often until you will find your way around them – in this way you will put all your thoughts and wishes in a good order and will thus spiritually become a "major (*1)" in truth Amen.

[14] This is My desire for you, as for all, on your birthday! Keep it faithful and alive!

Footnote (*1) of full age, of age of consent