Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 424
Title: " My Word is Life. But too many eyes see only the page. "
(Notebook XLII, pp. 17--24)
Live + Jesus
Wednesday, February 18, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! I bow with Gratitude before Your Name, my Lord! Your Name, O Jesus, is LIFE! Sweet Jesus, how I Love You! Sweet Jesus, how I adore You! Sweet Jesus, how I believe in You! Sweet Jesus, how I trust in You!! My Lord, as I sit here in prayer, the wind is howling. Rain is being blown over ice and snow. Sirens are in the distance for downed power lines. Lord! Loose articles are being blown about outside.....I can hear the crashes as the wind transports them! Yet as I sit here, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I take comfort in Your Name. Your Holy Name. Jesus, DO protect all who are in harm's way. Lord Jesus, keep us safe in You. Amen!!
Child, we shall write. For HERE there is security. Here in every heart. But how would one know to turn to Me in every trial? How should one know to do such a thing? O, have taught you here and elsewhere as well. But all that I teach you now, is but My Homily on My Own Word. It is for this Reason that I direct you in each Message, to My Holy Word. That you would begin to see the Depth of Me in My Word. Do you see it? Sarah? Do YOU see it? (Yes, Jesus, more clearly day by day! I rejoice, Jesus, to read Your daily Word! You have taught me to do so! You have elated Me with Your Word! Even from before I heard Your Sweet Voice [in March, 1994], I have rejoiced at seeing Your Word alive in my heart; truly alive in my LIFE! I have come to see that this daily life You permit to us, Lord, is steeped within Your Holy Word. We are ALIVE in Your Word, Lord; as You are in us! If we but come to SEE it. Jesus? How did it occur that I grew to see? I know by You.....but......HOW?)
Healing is a process, child. When you awoke that summer day [during August 1993] to realize you were dead [to prayer] I sent My Mother to your side to call you with her into prayer [through her Rosary]. My Mother led you to Me, Sarah. By her sweet hand have you come to Me. And by My Own Word [private revelation which I was reading] did you fall in Love with your Lord. (Yes, Jesus. And by Your Word [Holy Scripture]. As I read [the private revelation] I desired to read the references to Holy Scripture. For I reasoned, Lord, that beyond any question, Holy Scripture is Truth.)
The scales began to fall from your eyes, Sarah. One by one. Growth in Me with increased sight in Me. [I recall now how once Jesus let me see these scales rising and floating away....looking like wispy pieces of gossamer.....] (By Your Grace, my Lord! By Your healing touch??)
Yes, child. I have fed you My Very Self. My Word. Do you realize now how alive I am in My Word, Sarah? (Yes, Jesus! As a baby is fed, Your Holy Word was my daily food. And as I grew in You, Lord, my appetite increased for more of You. Daily Eucharist, Lord. Your Gift of Self in Your Body and Blood.)
Man does not live on Bread alone, but on every Word that comes from the Son of God. My Word is Life. But too many eyes see only the page. It is for this Reason I present Myself to My children day after day, in this Word [the Messages] that they might come to be fully alive in Me.
Why now? Because in this world gone so awry with sin, My lambs need increased strength, increased direction, increased instruction. My lambs.....but LOOK.....what has changed? Nothing! It is still I Who am your Shepherd. It is still I Who am your Teacher, your Master! It is still I Who walks with you and talks with you. It is still YOU who must come to fully recognize that God is with you NOW.
This work is but a way for Me to reach out My Hand to you. That you might reach for Me. To come to know Me better. To Love Me more. And yes, to desire to serve Me. For, Faith without action is opposed to My Word. Where have I been in your midst? How have you met Me? How have you served Me?
Have you listened to My plea, and uttered prayer? Have you responded at all to My Whispers? For at times in a moment, I ask your assistance. I give to you the thought of a loved one, a brother, a sister, a stranger.....that you might render prayer. For this IS one Body, child! And the parts, though many, are all one and unique in Me. And so, if the toe is stubbed, the brain asks for assistance. Do you understand? (Yes, Lord!!) And the way of service varies. Each part has a bearing on the other. For some, prayer becomes the very act of service. For others, prayer is the fuel for the outward acts of charity. All is to serve one another in Me! See? (Yes, Jesus!!)
Children, let us talk of ACTION. What is your motivation? To please Me? But how? Recall the bread. [Ref. to Message 423] From the crust? Or from the center? HOW is it that you do at all? Think of the HOW. Think of the WHY. To please Me from the OUTSIDE? Or to please Me from the INSIDE? It is all a matter of where you are in Me! To re-tool your inside, is why I feed you My Word. To nourish you with Me and in Me. Wholly and completely.
Yesterday I spoke of celebration. Come to My Mass. Yes, where I am worshipped and adored. But HERE where I celebrate! My Very Self! And I give you.....ME! In My Word as well as My Flesh. DO come to be fully alive, balanced in Me. I feed you My Word. Do you taste it? I feed you My Word. Do you desire it? I feed you My Word. Do you thrive on it? I am the Word. I am the Bread. Eat Me. Drink Me, My Blood. I am Whole and Complete.
So many are concerned for their health. I come to make you well. From the inside out. And yes, at times, from the outside.....in. However, it is all by My Will. The Will of God. Be whole in Me. Let Me Touch you. Let Me make you to see. Open your eyes. I stand before you. Look INTO your eyes. I am within you. I am God. I am everywhere. Let me become visible. On your outside. From your inside. In thought, word and deed. Whole and complete. In Me. Nothing changes. Until you are Here. At My Side. In My Side. In Me. See? In Me. Amen. +
(James 1: 19-27; Psalm 15:2-5; Mark 8:22-26)
With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah
