I Appeal to You

... through Bertha Dudde -

13.10.1951

5234 Faith without love is dead....

It is essential to live up to the commandment of love in order to

attain profound faith. Proof is not necessary to believe, rather, you have to
become convinced of something that cannot be proven so that you can
wholeheartedly support it, so that you can endorse what you now believe
in. Only this kind of faith is assessed by Me as living faith, for I do not
regard mere words and assurances as belief but merely as an agreement to
avoid an objection, since you cannot substantiate an objection. In that case
you blindly believe, you accept without scrutiny, without personal
opinion, what is imparted to you from outside. But this kind of faith will
never emanate strength, with this kind of faith you will never be able to
achieve remarkable effects.... for only a living faith can give evidence of
the strength of faith. But living faith is faith born by love, because love is
the strength which then expresses itself in faith. Faith without love is
dead, it is something inertly formal that has no effect. An active intellect
can certainly come to a conclusion which the person then calls `belief' but
this belief will be more an assumption which will neither please nor
elevate him.... as long as the love in him has not been kindled. For only
love will give life to such faith. A loving person, however, does not need to
activate his intellect exceptionally, and yet he will nevertheless be able to
endorse his knowledge, for he is enlightened by his inner spirit, and thus
he can believe with conviction because he has the evidence within himself.
Hence, what should be believed cannot be proven, or one could not
talk about `faith', and yet no doubt exists for the person who lives with
love, because the spirit within him will give him explanations which
justify profound faith. But these cannot be conclusively transferred to
another person because every human being has to arrive at faith himself,
which he is able to do if he does not ignore love.... love, however, is the
unification with Me.... Consequently, I Myself also have to be recognised
by those who love, and therefore faith in Me can no longer be doubtful....
for where I Am present through love I give evidence of Myself to the
person, and then he is imbued by a living faith which can never be
without strength. I Am the source of everything.... love and wisdom, light
and strength originate from Me, and one without the other is
unthinkable.... Thus anyone who is intimately connected to Me through
love will necessarily also have living faith and thus full knowledge. But
where love is lacking the latter does not exist either. Then it is a dead faith
without awareness, for I Am love Myself, without love there is no strength
and no light.... without love you humans still live in darkness, and
without love you are frail beings, for only love will make you strong....
Amen

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