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God‘s word. Parables. Picture language. Reluctance of men.
12. December 1948. B.D. NR. 4508.
You will only then understand the meaning of my words, when you are serious about standing in truth. I have always spoken in parables to men to prompt them to think; otherwise the words would have faded away at their ears, when they did not have the serious will to think about it. I gave free rein to their thoughts and therefore suggested to them everything in a corresponding way. Through the picture language should become alive in them that, what I had to say to them. And I achieved in this way with those men more than with a dry teaching, which remained incomprehensible to them, before they did not possess deeper knowledge through a love life. And in this way also my teaching has been written down according to my will. And again only the serious will of the individual belongs to it to penetrate into the heart of my teaching, which has been veiled through parables and illustrative description to prompt man to think about it. This is truly a little demand to take my word as content of the thoughts, to seriously think about the meaning and purpose of those words, which contain my love teaching, and everyone, who has the serious will, will also soon understand the meaning and be able to himself give a right explanation in a dispute. Because I want that men exchange ideas about my word, only then they will have the right blessing from it, only then the seed comes up, which was planted into the soil. Speech and reply stick in the memory more than a written word, over which one reads past it without noticing it, if man does not have the need to draw a deeper knowledge out of the Scriptures, which express my word. Through speech and reply man is forced to an opinion and to the expression of his thoughts. For this reason it is far more successful to foster an exchange of thoughts in a small circle than to listen to my word without being allowed to do a counter expression, because the intellect of man certainly receives my word, but not the heart, which now has to rely on that the intellect is urged through the will of man to also supply to the heart what he has received through hearing. But mostly that what was heard escapes the intellect without the heart having taken note of it, and then my words are completely unimportant, because their meaning would be hidden to the intellect, but revealed to the heart. And therefore I have let my disciples write down my word in this form, well considering the reluctance of most men to deal with these my words in detail. But I made it depending on the thinking about it, how far my word becomes comprehensible to them. Amen. B.D. NR. 4508.
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