AC 2892 - Living to Be Gifted with Heavenly Freedom and Peace

AC 2892

He who lives in good,
and believes that the Lord governs the universe,
and that all the good which is of love and charity,
and all the truth which is of faith,
are from the Lord alone;
indeed, that life is from Him,
and thus that from Him we live,
move, and have our being,
is in such a state
that he can be gifted with heavenly freedom,
and together with it with peace;
for he then trusts solely in the Lord
and has no care for other things,
and is certain that all things are tending to his good,
his blessedness,
and his happiness to eternity.
But he who believes that he governs himself
is continually disquieted,
being borne along into evil desires,
and into solicitude respecting future things,
and thus into a vast number of anxieties;
and because he so believes,
the evil desires of evil
and the persuasions of falsity
also adhere to him.