"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 729
Title: "God IS with you now! Be a living testimony to this article of Faith!"
(Notebook XLVIX, pp. 158--163)
Live † Jesus
Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 20, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
[Jesus speaks.....]
My children, hear Me. I speak with you continually, that you would come to finally follow Me. By this I mean to live in Me. Truly. Truly. Truly. To be a living sign for Me, you must come to be constant in Me. I AM present to My people, through the hearts of My people who live as I would have them live. As they are willing to live in Me.For all time, My people Israel awaited the Prince of Peace. But they had not formed their vision through My Own and so, I was not visible to their eyes and I did not rise in their hearts. There is one plain fact, My lambs: you must come to choose between right or wrong. Truth or lie. Peace or confusion. My Way or the way of the world. For it is here in the world that you become, O, so desensitized to the things of the flesh. You are looking to the WORLD for resolve to satisfy things, needs, of your flesh. Your focus fades from Me and your gaze is upon the world. Where I would continually lift you up by My Grace, your focus on the world exposes you to the gnawing of the enemy. So slight are his attacks upon you that at first they go unnoticed. There is a gnawing, a pulling of you away from Me. And your focus is blurred and you begin to hold the world and the flesh as the resolve of your needs. I stand before you, but because I am not aggressive by the standards of the world, you pay Me no heed. And instead of following Me, you flee from Me. You no longer hear clearly, My warnings, My beckonings to focus on Me.
If today My Star rose in the East, would you see it? If today I walked among you, would you see Me? Well, children, I AM Emmanuel! I AM God with you NOW! But you must train your flesh to notice Me. To pay Me heed. To put Me first. To replace every false god present in your life, with the TRUTH Who is ME! Let go of PRIDE, dear children! For pride is a grave sin. It causes you to insulate yourself against Me. Did you know that? You can better see where pride sits in domain in your life as you strive to come and follow Me. I am more than a star to be followed. I am God! Son of God! Born of Mary! Yes! Raised by Joseph! Yes! Fact! Pure fact! To be believed, or not. To be lived, or not. But if you know this.....that I was born of man, then you bear no excuse.
Do you see? YOU have been invited to My Manger. Here you have been graced with Faith and Hope and Love. Here you have beheld Me. You have heard the call and you have come to acknowledge that I am the Son of God. Our journey began that day. And step by step we have grown. It is for YOU to continue the journey in Me.
O little ones, hear Me. I am more than a season. I am all Life! I am your yesterday, your today, your tomorrow. Let Me rise in your hearts. Let Me live visibly, by how YOU live. BE virtue! BE Grace, alive and visible. BE in Focus on Me.
Children, the enemy would deter you. A kingdom of thought rises in your mind. You would spend so much time in thought of issues of the world and the flesh. Both of which will fall away. Come to have a mind for Me. Come to have the Mind of Christ! Be focused on My Father! Be alive in Me! Be people of Faith! Be visible, shining "stars" on the face of the earth! Be witnesses of Me to one another. Let Me see you looking at Me in the eyes of one another. And let Me see you acknowledge My Presence by kneeling in worship before Me: My Body, My Blood, My Holy Sacrament.
See the simplicity of following Me. See My Mother's agreement to follow. One word. "Yes." See the simplicity of following Me. See the simplicity of carrying out the Word of God. See Joseph. Confused at first, but focused on Me. He carried Me. He cared for Me. He walked for Me. He defended Me. He protected Me. He focused on Me. He lived for Me. Confusion tossed aside, he came to be for Me. Will you?
See? The Living Nativity calls you to be alive in Me. Every moment. Every day. Every breath. Every glance. Every touch! God IS with you now! Be a living testimony to this article of Faith! Be My Presence. Be a living "yes" to God. Be a living sense of duty to God. My Life is not assigned to certain "characters." My Life is freely given to you. And My Breath breathes every day.
Let today be our beginning. Again. Newness. Alive. In your spirit. In Me. Yes.....BE in Me. Wholly. Completely. Amen. †
(Is. 7:10-14; Ps. 24:1-6; Rom 1:1-7; Mt. 1:18-24)
With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah
