Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 491
Title: " Abandonment of self is the most important ingredient in a True Life in Me. "
(Notebook XLIV, pp. 50--56)
Live + Jesus
Third Sunday of Easter, April 26, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
Daughter, record these Words which I am about to speak. (Yes, my Lord and my God.)
Sweet things who read, hear Me: I call you to certain action within My Plan. I would be visible by the good example which you set before all mankind. Now I tell you this: There is no need for you to attempt to create WHICH good example you shall perform. What I ask of you is the willingness to proceed more deeply into Life in Me. Should you agree, then Here you shall be. I am the Process of your life, if you permit Me to act. I am a Firm, yet Gentle God. And beyond all else, I shall wait for your lead, that you may TRULY follow. Do you understand Me? What I ask from you is willingness.
Have you ever baked a cake, children? Have you ever seen its progress? All the ingredients are mixed. Certain proportions are necessary. But what changes it into a recognizable cake, is the heat. Do you see, lambs? YOU can gather the ingredients. YOU can mix and prepare. YOU can choose the source of heat. But THEN you must leave the batter to be formed, to be raised by the heat.
A simple story for the way of your life. Unless you are willing to relinquish to Me that part of you, you shall never be complete. You shall never be recognized as My Own. Your life shall remain undone if you do not reach a point of offering your entire being in Trust, to Me. Abandonment of self is the most important ingredient in a True Life in Me. Have I made any sense to your heart? Have you permitted your being to understand what I say? Do not stop at the example I have offered. Proceed deeply into its meaning for you. Yes, its meaning for you. How far are you willing to go in Me? Do you not trust that I shall care properly for you?
Lambs, DO hear Me. I know fully well, that your life is one of gradual progressions in Me. You cannot successfully trod where I have not blessed your feet to be. DO be satisfied with seemingly slow progress. A quicker pace may result in your tripping, your fall. Sometimes such action is beneficial, for you can see more of the world and where you are from this lower stance. It affords you the ability, the choice, to stand and walk yet again, to Me Who is the Prize. Children, all can become Grace in Me, if you are willing to give to Me your all and everything. I shall not keep it, but return it to you a hundred fold.
What I am talking about here, My lambs, is the fulfillment of Promise. For you have been promised to Me at Baptism. You have dutifully renewed your Promise again and again. Children, DO realize that a Promise made to God is a very serious affair. I do expect that what you promise shall be fully rendered. Though I am Perfect Patience I do wait, but expect the fulfillment of your heart unto My Own.
Creation! What are you without Me? Are you creation, at all? Who is God, afterall. DO be aware, lambs, that prowling in your midst is the constant cry of the enemy. He would dissuade you; persuade you to leave My Side for the side of worldly gain. This, then, is the struggle present in your life. Of Good versus evil. Of Life in Me or of life in the world. To rise to My Way or to succumb to the evils of the world, the flesh, the devil. What shall be the cry coming forth from your lips. Shall it be My Holy Name? Have I not asked you to pray constantly, My Name: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! Who will you bow before, for all Eternity. The Throne of God? Or the fiery torment of hell, of Satan in hell. THIS is the only choice you must make: Heaven or hell. Me or the enemy. Heaven or earth. Eternal bliss or that which will fall away. A moment's earthly bliss or Life Everlasting in Me.
Shall you change? Shall you become who I would have you be? Do you see what is going on here, My lambs? Standing here before you is Good and evil. What are we waiting for? Your commitment of self. Shall you give yourself, fully, to Me? Or shall you condemn yourself and hand yourself over to the enemy. There is a battle, children. It is over YOUR soul.
Come! Rejoice with Me forever in Heaven! Know! Believe! My Kingdom is with you now! I do NOT leave you defenseless! I Breathe, constantly, upon you My Spirit. I lay before you every day the Meal of Salvation! My Body. My Blood. Come! Approach Me! Be with Me! Proclaim Me in your hearts! Find Me! See Me! Recognize Me! Let Me.....DO let Me be a part of your new day!
BE in Me as I am in you! BE in Me! LIVE in Me! PROCLAIM Me! Let the proclamation be a voice from the depths of your heart! BE in Truth! BE IN ME! Child! I have waited for you to approach Me. See? I have prepared your way! See? I have expected you! See? I have SO longed for you! And yet, what bearing do you have in the whole of My Plan? Ah! There are so many ingredients! Leave it, now, ALL to Me. I am God. I shall do it all! If you let Me!
My children, I am Jesus! I am your Lord! Do you Love Me? Then come, live My Life! See? I am here. Waiting on YOUR shore! I shall not leave until you arrive! I shall not leave, unless you refuse to come. The moment is that final, lambs. Come, follow ME. Please. Amen. +
(Acts 5:27-32, 40-41; Ps. 30:2, 4-6, 11-13; Rv. 5:11-14; Jn. 21:1-19)
"It think our Lord will grant you many graces if you have the courage to follow Him by entire self-forgetfulness, abandonment to His Providence and great purity of intention, always uniting yourself to the intentions of His Sacred Heart." ["Thoughts & Sayings of St. Margaret Mary" for April 26]
With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah
