Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 423
Title: " He who denies the need to be forgiven, denies My Cross. "
(Notebook XLII, pp. 9--17)
Live + Jesus
Tuesday, February 17, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
O Lord Jesus, it is as though I can see Your Hands, and they are wrapped around a loaf of bread. I understand that it is Your Holy Word, Lord. Yet, I know, as well, that it is YOU! And I hunger and thirst for You, my Jesus! Yet this Life I desire is by You. I cannot attain it on my own; I NEED You, my Jesus. Please, Lord, feed me! For I hunger and thirst for Your Word, even as I desire to eat Your Body and drink Your Blood. Amen!!
[Jesus speaks....]
We shall talk of bread. Yes. We shall! (O Lord! Jesus! I Love You and I desire You!!)The bread, on its outside, is crisp. It needs to be broken to get to the inside, where there is softness and warmth. Where there is such nourishment in which to share! It is natural to eat bread from its softness inside, outward to its crisp covering. Why? Because the center is the attraction, afterall. It is as though the crust of the bread is a covering, a wrapping, which must be undone to reveal the interior nourishment. My lambs, I am the Bread of Life! I come to feed you My Very Self: My Word, My Body, My Blood. Do desire Me.
Let us talk of blamelessness. Of being in a state of no guilt. How shall this occur? By coming to Me at the Foot of My Cross. For HERE, the battle has been won! Out THERE, the battle rages! You MUST come to terms with Reality in Me! Do you continue to long for a life in the world which will bring you death? Death by your sin? Or would you approach My Cross and fully understand that Here, at This Place of Dying, is the place of being in Me: New Life! Here all sin is forgiven. Here, in the anointing of Grace from within My Sacrament, all sin is erased, absolved. Come, let Me place a drop of My Blood upon you, that you may be marked as My Own. That you might worthily enter this Place of Sacrifice and dine with Me at My Holy Table. For I look, and so desire for you to be Here with Me.
.....Go, child. And break daily bread for your son, who is Mine as well. And return. We shall continue then. (By Your Holy Permission, Lord. Thank You, Jesus. Amen!!) Sarah, DO bless him. (O YES, my Lord! I shall! Jesus! I LOVE You!!) [I go.....and return.....]
I will draw you close to My Side, My children. I have been warning you; I have been instructing you. But the common lesson, the common thread, is that you come to BE in Me. For if the Bread is to be opened that you might eat: I am He. If the Word is opened that you might KNOW, it is Me. And if the Way is to be walked into Life Everlasting, I am the Way! (We hunger and thirst for You, O God! You are our Life. You are the Truth! You are our Way!! God be praised!)
Little lambs, let Me tell you something: I am your Strength. You are weak. You are inclined to sin. I absolve you. If you but come to Me in repentance. "Your sins are forgiven!" Would, that you hear these words uttered by My priest! Children! For these very words have I died! That forgiveness would be yours! (O Lord.....!) [I gasp with a deep understanding.]
Yes, Sarah! [Quickly I am infused with an understanding.....] He who denies the need to be forgiven, denies My Cross. Yes! The Depth of My Cross is in My Dying, My Suffering. My Worthy Sacrifice. And in the Words I have spoken: "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." And children, that Same Forgiveness is here, now. But as you learn, you begin to know. And as you know, you must come to reconcile yourself. For I would have you bare your guilt, your sin and sorrow for your sin. And then, bathed in the Life of My Cross, are you forgiven your sin; are you absolved. By the duly authorized Sacrament which I have given to My Church.
Life in Me. Life in Me. Afterall, this IS about True Life in Me! I see some of you still questioning. Why? Do you not yet understand what I say to you? Are you not willing to advance in Me? O lethargy! Spiritual lethargy! You keep My lamb from My Side! Why are My children so willing to live in lethargy, and not in Me? Would I not nourish you that you would keep your strength? Would I not care for your needs? Are you not more priceless than a lily in the field? Than a bird in the air?
Sarah, for how long have we been writing? (My Jesus, for as long as You have Desired me to write!!) Be not shy, child. How many books? (This is the forty-second, my Lord. Oh...plus two that are private.) How many pages? (Two hundred in each, Lord. 8,213 to this page, plus 400 private, Lord.) How many words? (One, Lord. The Word is You.....O Lord!..... I HAVE given the right answer??) C-H-I-L-D..........YOU K-N-O-W Me! (Lord! You have Graced me! It is YOUR Wisdom! YOUR Gifts! YOUR Grace! YOUR all! YOUR everything! YOUR Body! YOUR Blood! YOUR Church! YOU! Lord, it is You. All is by YOU. Nothing by me. Not even my will, Lord, for You Who is God have given that as well! I am so DELIGHTED, Lord, to see I have come, am coming, to grow in You!) Child, we shall celebrate. (By Your Holy Will, Lord; that any celebration be Perfect, it must be by You. O Lord! YOU are MY celebration! This Life in You! And You have told me I am at a line, starting line. All else has been but a preparation! THANK YOU, Jesus! O Lord God! All is new in You. All is beginning!)
I carve a path through the desert. I fill it with Water from My Side. I touch the oasis and rich fruits grow! Life abounds! I touch the sick and they are well. I touch the blind and they see. I touch the crippled and they become pliable in Me. In the End it is where you ARE in Me! Do you see? Children, do you see? Do you rise from your mat and walk to Me? Your heart is ill, be forgiven in Me! See! I carry you to a higher plain! The plain to be walked is a True Life in Me!
Listen not to the lies in the world. Lies become a song, a dirge to pull you down. To distract you from Me. I am Truth. Listen, instead to the birds. They speak Truth. Their song is rendered freely to Me. If I would place upon a podium a great thinker and also a bird, you would do better to listen to the bird. Because he cannot lie! See! I set you F-R-E-E.........and the Breath you breathe is My Own. My Spirit breathes a sigh of relief. Fear lifted! Sin is gone! THAT is Life in Me! Little bird, fly here to My Side. Little lamb, come here to Me. Running water, flow to Me. All that I give will be returned. And then I long to say: "Enter, O kind and faithful servant. You have seen Me in your world, and you have treated Me accordingly. You have given Me water to drink. You have fed Me well. You have clothed Me and cared for Me. You have cried, 'Lord--Lord', but YOU have KNOWN Me! YOU have SEEN Me! You have walked with Me! My True Life! You have done more than seen and believed! You have LIVED! Come! Enter! You are Home! Come, enter now into My Glory! Be one in Me now. And forever. Amen." .....THIS is the Blessing I long to give to you!
Come now. True Life in Me. Here. Now. Begin. Come forth. Rise. Follow Me. Be in Me. Now. Amen. Now. +
(James 1:12-18; Psalm 94:12-15, 18-19; Mark 8:14-21)
With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah
