Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 554
Title: " Why would you choose NOT to follow Me? "
(Notebook XLV, pp. 158--164)
Live † Jesus
Sunday, June 28, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
Pick up your pen and come follow My Instruction this day, sweet Sarah. (Yes, my Lord and my God. I bow before Your Glory.)
Children of every nation. Children, all. Every nation, every race, every creed. Hear Me speak. None are exempt from My Voice, because I am the Son of God. I am the Word of God. And if all nations, all races, all creeds are to be touched by My True Voice, then it will be by the actions, the hands of those who would come, now, and follow Me.
O children! My Voice reaches many nations, the nations of hearts. For each and every heart is as a ruler, a leader, a guide of all within its grasp: to bring souls, most especially your own, to Me. Now, how you are to follow is between you and Me. For however you follow, it is to follow Me and to serve Me. Children, we must leave "you" behind even as you follow. Do you comprehend Me? It is those things in you which cause you not to be completely Mine, which must be left behind. But I am the One Who invites. It is for you to willingly let go of all which binds you to this world. But the largest place filled with possessions is your soul. Do you know what I mean? I say to you: Do not look back.
Why would you choose NOT to follow Me? Am I less beautiful than this world which I have created? Am I less charismatic than the things of this world? I can give you all and everything you need, with ever-lasting quality. But what of the world? Priorities, My lambs, Yes, priorities. How often in YOUR life do you prefer the things of this world to Me? You say that you Love Me. But do you, always?
I am calling you now, to come and follow Me. To willingly leave behind all that you have clung to. I am speaking foremost, now, of the condition of your heart. Thoughts cloud your mind; will you leave them? Would you agree to MY Thoughts? Your plans fill your heart; would you trust MY Plans? You measure your footstep, the distance you would go, the direction, the time of departure, the time of arrival. Would you lay down your life and come to follow Me?
Now, let Me look to see who I have gathered. Is it you? Wife, husband, Marriage: have I gathered YOU? For YOU are the lifebearers of My world. O CHILDREN! Have I gathered you? For you are the life of today and the proof of tomorrow! O the ill, the lame, the well, the walking: you are the variety of My Life in your midst. You are the Way of My Cross, alive, present, here and now. Will YOU continue to come and follow Me? O dear ones, how I LOVE you! There are those of you who would reserve yourselves from the ways of this world. Will YOU come follow Me? Would you offer to Me the ordinariness of your lives that I might use you to reach, to touch all of those around you? Some stay in the "village" and others let everywhere we go be our "town." Do you comprehend Me? Lay apostolate! Bloom where you are planted, but bloom only for the Glory of Me! Do not let pride enter the way you live, or you do not live for Me! Consecrated virgins: male and female: I am your only Spouse. Do not commit adultery by courting the world around you: I am your Spouse. Who I would touch are My children, our children, our Loves; yes, our little children. I call you "sweet thing", "sister", "brother", "priest." You are ME in the world in a special way. By your presence, or by being reserved even more in the secrecy of life known only unto Me. Yes, cloistered. How I touch My people is by the kindness of your hearts.
Yes. Will you leave behind what binds you to this world and come to follow Me? To where I would lead you? To where we would travel together. To where I would have you be? Even if it is precisely where you are? For ALL the Glory must be Mine! By the power of your will, in Loving submission to My Own. The greatest distance we must cover is contained within your heart. Step by step, let us begin.
First things first. I ask: Will you follow? I wait for your willing nod. Then we shall start. Yes, step by step. As you are able. For I want willing, able servants. Follow Me and you will be complete. Little one, DO trust that I know precisely what to do with your "yes."
Amen! My Kingdom is coming alive! Alleluia! Praise be to My Father! He is well pleased! Amen. †
(1 Kings 19:16, 19-21; Ps. 16:1-2, 5, 7-11; Gal. 5:1, 13-18; Lk. 9:51-62)
With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah
