AE 250 - The Lord Is At the Door; AE 251 - Love Is; AE 253 - Overcoming

AE 250 [2, 3]

The Lord is always present with good and truth in a person,
and strives to open his spiritual mind;
this is the door which the Lord wishes to open,
and to endow a person with heavenly love and faith;
for He says, "I stand at the door and knock."
But of this endeavor or this perpetual desire of the Lord
a person has no perception;
for he supposes that he does good from himself,
and that this endeavor or this wish is in himself.
It is sufficient then for a person to acknowledge
from the doctrine of the church
that all good is from God,
and nothing thereof from a person.
This is not perceived by a person,
in order that there may be reception by a person,
and by reception appropriation,
for otherwise a person cannot be reformed.

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

Love is willing and doing,
for what a person loves
he wills and does.

AE 253

He that overcomes,
I will give to him to sit with Me in My throne,
(Revelation 3:21)
signifies that he who is steadfast to the end of life
shall be conjoined with heaven where the Lord is.
This is evident from the signification of "overcoming,"
as being to be steadfast
in the spiritual affection of truth
even to the end of life;
but here it means to be steadfast in
a state of faith from charity,
since charity is here treated of.
This is what "overcoming" means;
because so long as a person lives in the world
he is in combat against
the evils and the falsities therefrom that are with him;
and he who is in combat,
and is steadfast in the faith of charity
even to the end of life,
overcomes;
and he who overcomes in the world
overcomes to eternity,
since a person after death
is such as his life had been in the world.
This is evident also from the signification of
"to sit with Me in My throne,"
as being to be conjoined with heaven where the Lord is;
for "throne" signifies heaven,
and to "sit with Me" signifies to be together with the Lord,
thus conjoined to Him.