Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 567
Title: " Humility is a Grand Virtue which takes a lifetime to grow within. "
(Notebook XLVI, pp. 29--37)
Live † Jesus
Feast of St. Benedict, Saturday, July 11, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
Child, hear the Words of your Lord as you hear them flowing from My Mouth. (My Lord and my God! I bow before You, O Majesty of my soul.)
Child, Who do you say that I am? .....Child.....? (My Lord! It is as though I can see You looking at Me.....as a teacher does.....awaiting my answer. My Lord! You have already read my heart! My Lord! You see the words there which could fill volumes of Who You are to me. My Lord.....You are my Lord and my God.
Sweet Sarah, do hear Me speak to your heart and to others: It is a matter of heart, dear ones. If My Kingdom is visible now, it is in the life in every heart. My Life which I instill there. See, that if any difference is to be achieved in this world, it will be by your willingness to live the Message of Salvation in your midst. I say LIVE. Because talk comes all too easily. Words pile up on words. But life is ongoing, visible, real. Words can dissipate if they are not lived. Is not MY Word the LIVING Word? Are you alive in it? Or am I in bondage to YOUR words? Which words are Perfect? Mine? Or yours?
Hear Me now on this issue: Your words are cheap, unless they rise from a purified heart. You must come to Me often to be purified of sin. Your sinful nature is a weakened condition, of the soul I have breathed into you. I had given you Perfection but you marred that with your choice to sin. And though I have lifted the bondage by My Life and by My Death and Resurrection, your sinful nature remains. To grow in Me rapidly you must come to do all I would do for you. But I will not make you come to confession. I leave the footsteps to you. That you would notice My encouragements along the way. For I cannot proceed with unprepared hearts. Hearts unwilling to reconcile themselves before Me, are hearts in possession of themselves. They cling to pride. For despite what the mind is telling you, children, you are weak and you are sick if you are not living in the fullness of My Light. And if you do come to Me often, you must come to grow beyond the failing that you bring to Me repeatedly. For the repetition indicates your unwillingness to change. I have graced you to change, but you have refused the benefit I have bestowed upon you.
And so, if My Kingdom is to be visible now, it is by the visible Life in your hearts. I speak to YOU! Do not perform what you think I would have you do. I am unimpressed with things you think I need. For child, I need nothing. But I choose to need you. There is a difference. I long, mostly, for your purified heart. Because in the purified Kingdom, I reign. And there is much I can accomplish , many times by what would be judged your inaction. Purified heart.... purified prayer! Yes! Prayer can become an action if you are truly listening to Me.
My lambs, hear Me. I come to make you whole. You cannot truly be working for Me until you bare your soul. So often, I am restricted. When YOU prearrange how *I* shall act, I am restricted. Yet, you have gone through the motion of pious act and you think you have achieved much. This is a case of deception. I ask that you come to Me honestly, humbly. To admit your faults, yes, but by this act to admit your sinful nature. That before Me you declare that I am God and you are not. That you cannot achieve without Me. That you would walk through life, My Life I have given you, in complete trust in Me. Recall what I have taught you, child. (Yes, Lord. You have taught us to come to you in all things in a certain order of preparation. You have said, my Lord, that we should:
1. Pray
2. Discern the Truth
3. Love
4. Focus on YouAnd then you may proceed. (Yes, my Lord and my God.
And all hearts are in progress. Progress is the keyword. Do you ever think you have achieved a state of accomplishment? This is a moment in pride! For if you are always in progress, you have failed to achieve.....fully, by the sheer motion of your life. Humility is a Grand Virtue which takes a lifetime to grow within.
And so I have spoken of darkness and light. [ref. today's Gospel] Evil will be exposed. It cannot remain in the Presence of Me. And My Light increases as you, who have been waiting in the darkness of lack of true knowledge of Me, emerge from your cocoon. And your new life begins. In My Light.....Grace, much Good will pour forth! And you will flow in your life by the Generosity of your God. For those who now experience tragedy: your world has grown quite small. The focus is shifted to the horror of the moment. But even there, I work! Yes, remain in prayer that you might see the Truth of your situation; a Truth according to My Holy Will. Then your Love will be pure for you will see clearly with My Vision, the scope of your Love.....the "how" of your Love. Yes. Completely. But you are able because of My Grace flowing into your open, receptive heart. And you shall remain fixated, focused, on Me. Why would you look elsewhere? Focus on Me that all which you do is in the Scope of My Blessing.
Be in Me. Above the norm set by humankind. You are children of God, capable of much. For I have Graced you thus. Let the Light pour forth. Let My Visibility be in the words that you speak. In the deeds that you do. In your heart. It is all just a matter of heart. Purified. Alive in Me. Amen. †
(Is. 6:1-8; Ps. 93:1-2, 5; Mt. 10:24-33)
With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah
