Title:  "You have sidestepped Me for so long, you have truly, forgotten how to follow."

(Notebook 57, pp. 172--175)

Live  †  Jesus

Tuesday, January 18, 2000

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
......Well?  What have been your thoughts?  Of yesterday.  .....Read it again, child, children.

(Yes, my Lord.)  [Jesus refers to Message 1122]

[Jesus continues.....]
.....In Me?  Is that your answer?  Are you yet, putting on the Mind of Christ which My Paul adjures you to do?  If you put on My Mind, you begin to partake of My Vision.  If you begin to see as I do, you begin to see things quite differently than before!  You will no longer walk through a crowd, looking down on those around you.  For, with My Vision, you shall see more clearly.....Me.

PLEASE, children, DO hear Me!  To follow Me is to follow God's Way.  To follow God's Way is to follow Perfection.  To follow Perfection?  To follow Perfection is to follow Me.  To follow Me is to do just that.....follow.  Follow ME.  My Way, not yours.  Follow ME as *I* would be followed.  Do not lead ME.  Let ME lead YOU!  Do not make excuses for yourself at My Expense; do not name Me as a part of your ill action.  Be careful, that you FOLLOW Me.....that you do not SIDESTEP Me!  It is all too easy for you; for all too often, you prefer the company of yourself to My Own.  You have sidestepped Me for so long, you have truly, forgotten how to follow.

You MUST come to rely upon Me.  You MUST know the difference between stagnation and the dryness which will achieve growth.  You must know that sometimes we rest, and most times we move on!  You must know that you must learn to trust.....Me!

You trust yourself, your own imperfection.  When will you truly trust in Me?

Shall I give you a sign?  Well.....here I am!  What more of a Sign of Direction would you want?  I Am.  I am Born.  I Live.  I have died.  I have Risen.  I am.  I am your Salvation.  And if you let Me, I shall lead.  Be careful that you do not distract your steps and call it "following."  You have become a master of trickery in the game which evil has spoon-fed for so long.  If you are unsure, then stand still, willingly, for one moment, and wait for My Lead.  But truly LOOK for My Lead.  Measure all you see by what I have taught, teach, through My Church.  It is Safe to walk into the Arms of your Mother, for She is My Bride.

O children.....lambs!  You complicate My Simplicity!  Your confusion is your own, enhanced somewhat, by the presence of evil in this world.

Look into your own hearts, as do I.  Let us start there.  Anew.  Again.  In Me.  Amen.    †

(1 Sm. 16:1-13; Ps. 89:20-22, 27-28; Mk. 2:23-28)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah