Message from Jesus, in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 29.
“I desire to write on the subject: How a soul must receive the divine love of the Father in order to become an inhabitant of God’s Kingdom and realize that they are immortal.
“In the first place, it needs to be understood that the divine-love is an entirely distinct kind of love from that which God bestowed upon humankind at the time of their creation; and which they have possessed in a more or less condition of purity ever since that time. This divine-love was never conferred upon humans as a perfect and completed gift, either at the time of their creation, or since my coming to earth, but as a gift which is waiting for mortals’ own effort and aspirations to obtain, and without which it can never become theirs.
“Then, understanding what this love is, and what its effect upon the souls of humans is, and that they must seek fot it; it follows that the obtaining of this love should become the one great object of a persons aspirations and desires. For when they possess it to a degree that makes them at-One with the Father, they cease to be mere humans, and become of a nature of soul existence that makes them divine, with many qualities of God – the chief of which is, of course, Love. And it also causes them to absolutely realize the fact that they are immortal.
“Mere moral goodness – or even possession of the natural love to its fullest degree – will not confer upon humans this divine nature. Nor will good acts and charity and kindness, of themselves, lead humand to the possession of this Love. But the possession of this Love in truth and fact, will lead to charity, good deeds and kindness, always unselfish, and to a brotherhood of humankind on earth.
“I know that mortals preach about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of human beings, and urge them to attempt to cultivate thoughts and deeds of love and self-sacrifice and charity as a way to bring about the greatly wished for unity of life and purpose on the part of mortals. And by reason of this natural love, humans themselves can do a great work in bringing about this brotherhood; yet the chain that binds them together cannot possibly be stronger than the natural love which forges it.” To be continued…