Messages From on High - "I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 1307
Title: "A Message of Suffering" [....a title given by our Lord....a "special" Message]
(Notebook 60, pp. 185--190)
Live + Jesus
Thursday, July 20, 2000
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
[Jesus speaks.....]
A butterfly sprouts its wings, having risen from its little cocoon. All things in Me take time, but no things occur without Me. Good things are of Me. Bad things are not. Good comes forth from My Will. Bad comes forth from the wrong, yet free-willed choice of yourself. Every burden that you carry I permit. Some are permitted by Me because they are the cross you are able to bear in Me, and I give you the Grace to bear it. Therefore, your burden is light because you are walking your way in Me. Others are amazed at the load you can bear, but YOUR eyes are upon Me and through your sacrifice in Me, others come to know Me as well. Some of you have heavy burdens: they are loads which wear you down. You prefer to do this aside of Me: your way, not Mine. You choose not to look to Me, but only to the rock under your feet, the pack upon your back. Perhaps you are carrying another’s load as well. I say: Come to Me, I will give you rest. Your rest will be in your vision. Perhaps, I shall lift the burden from you. Perhaps, we shall carry it together. Perhaps, with clear vision, you will see the Purpose of the burden you bear and in Me, the burden becomes commingled with My Grace, and transformation occurs: the butterfly emerges and finds solace and freedom in Me!
The labor, the suffering that you bear.....when it is a solitary affair achieves only your withdrawal from Me. Do not invite affliction, but do be open to My Cross. Be open to the Will of God, but do not force My Hand. Be willing to receive all which I would give you. Share, even, your Good fortune with others. Not all are called to the same place in the Body. But all who are in Me, are precisely where they ought to be. To know Me, to Love Me, to serve Me, you must come to be willingly IN Me, wherever that may be. Do not become as another.....but become fully alive in Me. Let Me lead you, little ones. And know this: no suffering or sacrifice or service which you endure will ever save you from your sins. I have accomplished this for you! In essence, each and every one of you is already healed in My Vision. But here you are in life.....And how you walk your own path, by your own will, marks the choices you make to either accept My Healing of you, or not. Sin may be forgiven, but the part which YOU play, is your own affect upon My Body. THIS is the action you must correct. For the Good which you do goes out, just as the bad. Every part of My Body affects the whole. Good can be done, just as well as harm. Sin is forgiven when you come before Me. Reparation is needed for the harm you have done. But even here, give your burden to Me. I will make you whole. Together, I shall show you the way. Reparation is received by Me from you for your own harm [done] and for that of others. But let the cross which you bear be the one which I am lifting with you. Do not inflict your own punishment, but lift My Gentle cross: the one I may allow to you, the one to which I may lead you. I am a God of Purpose, afterall. And where I lead you, let us go. Again I say: Come follow Me. Some crosses are easily recognizable. As you walk within their weight in Me, our eyes will surely meet. Suffering has new meaning in Me. I see the burdens in your hearts, little ones. Some crosses are less recognizable to the outside. Come, we will walk our interior journey together. Be not focused on the burden, but on Me.
So, what advice has changed? Focus on Me. Be in Me. Walk in Me. Lift your hearts to Me. Love one another as I Love you.....To the death, into Life, into Me. Amen.
(I kiss Your page here, my Lord. And I hear, "A Message of Suffering." Lord, I ask You if this is the title. I hear You say, "It is.")
[Jesus continues.....]
And listed, as well, for it is "special." [I understand that this Message will be included among those other "special Messages" indicated on the web site.]
My lambs, focus not on the weight of the burden, but on Me. Through Me, I shall take you to the Father. You shall come to know Him through Me. And you shall come to Me more fully through My Mother. See? She stands at the Foot of My Cross. Her heart is pierced with a lance since My Birth. My Mother of Sorrows knows, child. Bring your suffering to Me through her gentle hands. Her heart is an abyss of Love. Together we will walk the Way. Through our Two Hearts into My Father’s Hands.
I Love you, lambs. Amen. +
(Is. 26:7-9, 12, 16-19; Ps. 102:13-21; Mt. 11:28-30)
With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah
