AE 249 - Hearing His Voice; AE 250, 251 - Being Conjoined With the Lord

AE 249 [2]

But those who wish to know truths,
and to study them from the Word,
are such as are in the spiritual affection of truth;
these love truth because it is truth;
and those are in that affection
who wish to live according to the truths from the Word,
thus according to the Lord's commandments.
Such are meant by
"If any one hear My voice and open the door,
I will come in to him,
and will sup with him,
and he with Me."
(Revelation 3:20)

AE 250 [3]

He who is conjoined with heaven by a life of charity
is led by the Lord to see his evils,
both the evils of thought and the evils of will.
A person sees evils from good,
because evils are contrary to good.

AE 251

The Lord is conjoined with those
who receive Him in heart and life,
because the Lord enters or flows in into life;
He enters or flows in only with those
who are in a life of spiritual love,
or in a life of charity;
for charity is spiritual love.
When that love makes a person's life,
the Lord enters or flows in through it into the truths of faith,
and causes a person to see, or to know them;
form this a person has the spiritual affection of truth.

. . . Love makes a person's life,
as any one may know and see
if he is only willing to give thought to it;
for what is a person without love?
is he not a stock?
Therefore, as the love is
so is the person.
Love is willing and doing,
for what a person loves
he wills and does.