About fasting and almsgiving
I like it very much to gather you here once in a while to spend time with you and to teach you the mysteries of life and the beauty of the holy man . I miss very much to have as many sons of the law of the heaven as possible , and I miss to remind you of it , sons . Oh , you know how much I suffer that God cannot be with man ? I am holding you tight at My bosom and I am asking you this with longing , that I long very much , and My longing prompts Me to come on the way and teach you .
***
You have seen from My teaching how the prodigal son left his father , how he asked from his share of inheritance and then went with it away , and who did no longer love to be a child near his father , oh , and then he suffered very much until he came back , painful and humble , asking his father to give him the job of a hired man in his household ; ( See Luke : 15 / 11-24 ) however , his father saw his repentance and gave him a new birth and gave him back the joy of a child , oh , and that is why I am exhorting you now to take care of the little child in you so that the Father may take care of you , sons .
Oh , seek all the time to take after Me , for I was a child before My Father and Father could work in Me and through Me , dear sons . Always examine your condition and conduct to always be able to see if you take after Me in your conduct , sons . Receive the lesson of love and its living , and in everything measure yourselves in the lesson of love , oh , and in this way a man is able to have mercy on Me , for I want to live in man with My stature so that he may take after Me in all things and always , and this means what I said that I want mercy , not sacrifice but mercy 35 , sons , ( Matt : 9:13 ) so that I may be able to find shelter in man , for that is why I built the man , and I wanted him to be a child in My hand . However , he was not able to be thankful and obedient , oh , and he deserted Me , and that is why I have been crying so much after man and I have wanted to tell him that I expect mercy from him .
Yes , man , I expect mercy , that is , do no longer sin , do no longer cast Me out of your heart and out of your living , do no longer hurt Me , for the wounds from you hurt Me , and have mercy on the One Who has come down from heaven to you to take you back home and to keep you in Him so that you may not lose your adoption and the conduct of a child . Oh , love to stay within Me , love Me to be able to remain in Me and that the devil may see your love of Me and to grow weak .
Oh , take care of the humility , man , for I loved and worked humility and I was a child through it , and here it is how I am teaching you the angelic life , through which you cannot lose the Lord upon you , for it was and is a painful experience the fall of the angels who did not listen and lost their greatness near God , oh , and that is why I am telling you , and I am telling you this because of mercy , for I want mercy , I want to have shelter in you , dear man . Oh , if you want to do away the devil and to get healed from sin , then love God from all your heart and you will have the eternal life with Him , and if , on the contrary , you want to sin and to keep on doing it , then you will love the devil and receive his allotment , oh , but do not let the taste of sin control you against God ’ s love in your heart , for life is eternal and each one receives the wages of
35
« But go and learn what this means : ‘ I desire mercy , and not sacrifice ,’ [ Hosea 6:6 ] for I did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance . [ CT omits “ to repentance ”.]” » ( Matt : 9:13 )
83