"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Title: "I offer you Love; you offer Me law, rule, governance of your spirit. I would set you free. You bind yourself with chains."
(Notebook XLVIX, pp. 131--134)
Live † Jesus
Third Sunday of Advent, December 13, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
[The Lord speaks.....]
Great things are performed by people of great Faith. Ah! But where is the faith rooted? In God, or in man? To have faith in man, is to have faith in that which will fall away: for the man shall cease: what then of Faith? How shallow, or how great is YOUR Faith? What is it built upon? WHO is it built upon? Do you believe, no matter what? Or do you fold under the question of a doubtful heart? This is either where your strength or your weakness lies: in your Faith.I say this to you from My Own Experience, My lambs. For, how could I walk among you without Faith in My Father? It is to Him that I looked for all direction in My Life. His Time. In Patience before Him. For He hears ALL prayer. Mine, and yours!
What do you believe? Only what is before your eyes? Or do you rather, believe what is rising from your heart? Do you believe only what greets your eyes, and sounds in your hearing? Or do you follow, as well, the promptings of your heart? It takes many, at times, to convince you of Truth, that you might come to a firm Faith.....belief in Me. Ah! But when have YOU rushed to address Me directly for assistance in your level of belief? When will you let go of the world.....especially that part of the world where all your thinking lies? To judge only with head is to rob your heart, your soul. You are functioning, then, as an incomplete person. It is fine to question, child, but once answered, you must come directly to Me in prayer. For, here I stood before so many and they did not see Me. I did not fit their kingship; I was not the image of the Messiah, long-awaited, that they had hopes for. You know, but they [who have gone before us] did not know. Yet, where do YOU see Me, now? Will you banish Me, as did so many then? As so many do now? Will you limit Me now, because you suspect My activity in your midst?
Come to Me in prayer. Give to Me your heart. I shall set you free. I shall steer you home. Home to My Father. For that is the Simplicity, yet Grandness of My Mission. To bring all souls home to My Father. Yet, so much resistance do I receive. I offer you Love; you offer Me law, rule, governance of your spirit. I would set you free. You bind yourself with chains. I would lighten your load. You prefer its burden. I would heal your soul. You prefer its infirmity. I would set you free. You prefer the imprisonment of your mind. I would have you use all Gifts for the Glory of God. How wisely do you spend the Investment I have made in you? Do you cry out, even from your imprisonment? Do you believe in Me, even when the world would shackle you? Even when the world would limit Me.....or try to.....to bind Me and My Life from the depths of your soul?
Come, follow Me. I am your heart's Desire. I am your God. In retrospect, let us look one day, back upon this moment. When you said "yes" unconditionally, to Me. When you gave Me your heart and never again asked it back. When our process of oneness began.
Yes.....ask your questions of Me. But, be in prayer.....from the heart. That you might better recognize My Answer. Come follow Me. Shall we go? Will your delay cause you the Pleasure of My Journey? Will your delay cause you the loss of your heart? For it is I, your God, Who invites you. Now.....what can be wrong about that?
O heart! I am speaking to YOU! Yes, you! My Love! You! Amen. †
(Is. 35:1-6, 10; Ps. 146:6-10; Jas. 5:7-10; Mt. 11:2-11)
"To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say, 'Lord, I have no other will than Thine,' it is truly lost in God, and united to Him." --St. Francis de Sales
With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah
