Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 383
Title: "I COMMAND you to Love. Do you have a choice?"
(Notebook XL, pp. 147--152)
Live + Jesus
Thursday, January 8, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
My Lord, You are repeating to me the title of this Message, even before I read Your Holy Word. My Lord, this is Your Word. Your Work. My Lord, may I serve You according to Your Holy Will. Amen!!
[The Lord speaks.....]
The title is Mine! The Word is Mine! The people are Mine. The World is Mine! The Church is Mine! Heaven is Mine! All the Universe is Mine! All Creation is Mine! Love is Mine! I am Love. I give you My Love. Yes, I DO command you to Love. Now really, children, DO you have a choice? If you Love Me, do you have a choice?So, you SAY you Love Me. How well do you LIVE? I give you My Word. I Breathe it in your very soul. Do you heed My Presence? Do you accept My Breath? Do you grow in Me? Or do you try desperately to walk your own path? May I ask you something, lambs. If I COMMAND you to Love, how well do you keep My Commandment? If Life is a living PROCESS, then where are you in Love? Again I ask you. If I command you to Love, then how well are you living in Me? Where is your heart? In Me entirely, or not? For I DO request the whole of your heart! I COMMAND you. Yes. Yes. Yes. To Love! Your WHOLE mind! Your WHOLE soul! I DO command you! Do you obey your God?
Children, free will is a Gift of God. Its purpose is not to devise ways to FLEE from Me, but to COME TO ME! I grace you that you would be willing and able to LIVE MY COMMAND! Sweet little children, I tell you this: I am God. You are not. If you refuse to see the difference, then you have succumbed to pride. Be careful, now, in your examination for you would be surprised as to where you fall. Do this NOW lambs, BEFORE the Great Trial, the Great Purification! Ease your time! BE IN ME NOW!
Now I ask you, children, if you Love Me how can you NOT Love one another? If I am in each one of you, how can you not Love Me there? O ye of little Faith! I ask you: Do you truly live what you say you believe? Do you Love as I Love? Afterall, this is My command.
And I ask you further still: How do you arrive at the immenseness of this Love Which I am? How do you grasp it? How do you keep it? How do you live it? I shall tell you: YOU cannot. In all actuality, children, you can do no Good Thing without My Assistance. Whether you choose to believe or not, it is My Goodness Which brings you success!
O My children, DO hear Me. [The Lord pleads.....] Just come to Me! Have I not asked you to walk to Me as does a toddler in hope to his parent? That is all I ask of you! O child, I KNOW your limitations! I see your every cell! I see your every breath! I know! I know! You say you are trying. But little one, there are many places of effort within you where I am not. Will you permit Me to assist you? It is My Desire to be one in you.
O little child of Mine -- Would you come and stand before Me and declare that I am your God? Would you stand before Me and give Me your heart? With all its imperfections? Little one, a heart freely given with burdens and even a stain of sin is a most priceless Gift! Do you know that? O child! Your most ugly darkness freely given to Me is the Diamond of Hope! For you have trusted that I would receive you! And O MY LAMB, I DO! I DO! I DO! O! How I wait for you! I whisper to you little one: Do not abuse My Gift of time. I give you a moment. To be. In Me. Do not waste a moment. A moment is a talent not to be wasted.
If you would permit Me, I would bathe you in Love. Be blind and walk to Me. Be alert, and rescind the world for Me. Pause your conversation long enough to BE in Me!
O! How I would reach every heart! O! How I would speak to every nation! O! To be heard! O! To be lived! O! To look and see My children living in Obedience! Living in Love! Living in Me! Being in Me!
See? If you would only BE in Me you would already BE in Love. The MOST PERFECT Love! My Love! O child, I would stroke your hair! O child, I would hold you to My Breast! O child! I would kiss the sweetness of your feet! O child, I would anoint your every suffering, which is your holiness in Me!
O intimate Love. O Sweet Love! I anoint you with Me! I raise you up on high, never again to be let down. If you would only BE. In Me. Amen. +
(1 Jn. 4:19--5:4; Ps. 72:1-2,14-15, l7, Lk. 4:14-22)
"Our Lord is satisfied with our good will. I hope that His Heart will never refuse you the Graces necessary to fulfill entirely all that He requires of you." ["Thoughts & Sayings of St. Margaret Mary" for January 8.]
With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah
