Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 548
Title: " Yet, it might be far better to be glued to the chill of a flagpole than to use the tongue in one moment of uncharity towards "
(Notebook XLV, pp. 125--131)
Live † Jesus
Monday, June 22, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
My Lord! My Sweet Lord! All Glory and praise be Yours! You are Great, You are Grand! You are Silent, You are Simple! You are Subtle, You are Bold! You are God! You are Father. You are Son. You are Spirit. Three in One. See my heart, O God. It lies prostrate at Your Holy Feet! I thank You, O God, for the ways You permit me to see how You care for Me; and I thank You, O God, for all I cannot see. O Perfect Parent, I do Love You! Thank You for Your Holy Word, Your daily Scripture through Holy Mother Church! Thank You, O God, for the eyes to see that I/we are immersed into Your Living Word! O my God, how You DO teach Your children! Grant us Your Wisdom, O Lord! That we might see how very much we are already IN You! O God! I attempt to silence myself. I give You my heart, O Lord. I LOVE You, Lord! Amen.
[The Lord speaks.....]
Sweet thing, hear Me. Many hearts would be Mine. Many hearts would come to Me. But the decision must be made: In which world do you reside? The world of flesh and bone? Or Mine? By this I mean, are you willing to relinquish all that chains you to this earth for a freer Life in Me? You hear the term True Life in God, yes, True Life in Me. Now, just what does that mean to you? Is it a mere "saying" or is it saying something about how you LIVE your life.Children, do you know that the chains which bind you to this earth are forged by your own hands? That you are your own jail keeper? For all you need do is offer to walk with Me, and to CONTINUE our journey, and then one by one, the bindings will fall from your heart. For it is your heart you have imprisoned.
Children! You are mere children! Realize that the most immature behaviours pour from your being when you are most filled with pride. .....Then, share it, child. (Yes, my Lord. As You have been speaking, I am internally seeing and recalling a particular scene in a film about a man's recollections of his childhood. There is one instance where the young boys dare one another, and one of them accepts the dare and he puts his tongue on an icy cold metal flagpole. And he gets stuck to it, my Lord. And he needs to be rescued for the sheer pain and embarrassment of it all. That is what I understand, my Lord.)
Ah yes! The tongue! A mighty weapon for the good and the bad. This instrument which can praise Me Who is God. This instrument which receives My Body from hands so worthy. This instrument which can lash and condemn and ridicule and judge and condemn. This instrument so often is glued to the ways of this world. Yet, it might be far better to be glued to the chill of a flagpole than to use the tongue in one moment of uncharity towards another.
Judgment is all too often levied by a tongue who should first examine itself. These are difficult words. I shall further explain. To speak: Let it not be to accuse. To speak: Let it not be to harm. To speak: Let it be to Love. One another. As I Love you. Pride, My lambs, is the great deceiver. It hides in so many places. And all too often, on the tip of your tongue.
Do not condemn your body, its many parts. Each part can give Glory to Me. Your tongue, your eyes, your hands.....your heart. It is about where your heart is before Me. Do not condemn one another. Love one another. And do Love your body, for it gives glory to Me. Do not condemn one part of your body for it is very worthy of praise to Me. Be My Hands. Be My Living Word. Raise your hands to Me and do touch Me. With Love. With Tenderness. For there am I in your midst. See your neighbor. See Me. Touch your neighbor. Touch Me. Do you understand? All too often your minds become the courthouse in which you conduct trials you are incapable of hearing. You misjudge because *I* am the Judge. You err within your own being, and so you cannot Love. You are the one who creates an enemy. And then you hate what you have created.
Look at Me. Be in Me. First. Foremost. Always. Measure your worth, your words, your actions in Me. In Me. Yes. Place YOURSELF in Me. Leave the world and the others aside. Measure yourself in Me. And then, when you step out in word and in deed, it will be WE, US, you and Me. Together. One. One Body. You in Me and I in you. Do you comprehend Me?
O little child, DO be stuck to the flagpole. *I* shall rescue you. For it is *I* Who Loves you. Sweetness! You are My child. I shall teach you until you learn to live what I teach. O little one, you are My sheerest delight!
Come, I would teach you more. Here, in My Arms. Amen. Forgiveness? Yes, forgiveness! Of you to Me. Of you to your brother, your sister. Yes. You are learning. Amen. †
(2 Kgs. 17:5-8, 13-15, 18; Ps. 60:3-5, 12-13; Mt. 7:1-5)
With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah
