AE 863 - What Proceeds From the Lord; AE 864 - Following the Lord in Freedom

 AC 863

. . . that which proceeds from the Lord is the Lord;
consequently he that receives truth from spiritual love
because it is truth
receives the Lord.

AE 864 [1, 4, 5]

For the Lord draws after Him the person
who from freedom wills to follow;
but He can draw no one
who does not will to follow Him.
For the Lord so operates with a person
that a person may follow Him as if of himself;
thus does the Lord flow into a person's freedom;
and this He does
for the sake of the reception and implantation
of truth and good with a person
and consequent reformation and regeneration.

. . . "to follow the Lord"
means to acknowledge His Divine
and to obey Him . . ..

. . . when a person turns away from evils
he is led by the Lord;
for he does the Lord's commandments,
not from self but from the Lord.