In Love With The Lord

A Prayer for Vessels of Life

We are nothing more than vessels, which receive life from the Lord, and the life, which flows in us from the Lord, is from his divine love. For so long we did not yield because we were obstinately resistant and opposed to heavenly order. We had to render complaint and be made fit to receive anything of the life of the Lord’s love… so we had to be softened. Yes we have become somewhat tempered and subdued by spiritual combats from the perpetual striving, struggling, and resistance. Now we will be gifted with another disposition, being made mild, humble, simple and contrite in heart. God, from these things which are according to order perceives, knows, and see all and single things even to the most minute. God does not hold us in evil, but withholds us from evil, and I know he strives with us through it all. We must continue to pray, not with our mouths but from our hearts, for that which is of love is continually in the thought, even when we are unconscious to it. It has become evident to me that there are innumerable things within the ideas of thought, which I constantly open towards heaven and as you know innumerable things pour in. Some I cannot comprehend, but it is wonderful that the things that flow in are so varied and it has given me to know that there are more things in content than the universal heaven has capacity to comprehend. To those indeed who’s thought is closed nothing more appears, for the things that can be understood when they are known, my mind is delighted with them. Delight carries light with it because it is from love, and if we love such things as are of divine and heavenly wisdom, light shines from heaven and we receive illustration. This is the nature of the wisdom of angels. I’m sure the thoughts of angels are never drawn down to earthly and material things; nor interrupted by any cares about the necessaries of life. How great is the wisdom of angels.