Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 449
Title: " I flow where I Will and I nourish all who would receive Me! "
(Notebook XLII, pp. 175--182)
Live + Jesus
Third Sunday of Lent, March 15, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
O my Sweet Lord! In this moment, I feel as if I am a child.....Your child, sitting here at Your Holy Feet. My Lord, how rich has been my Food this morning, for there are two sets of prescribed readings. And so, I have been with You deeper than I thought I would be. O my Lord, I can only ask that I be permitted to remain in You. For Lord, since I am Here, I am full, in Love in You. My Lord and my God, I desire to be nowhere else, but in You! As You permit me to be. As I am able to grow. To be. In You. Thank You, Jesus, for scooping me up; for holding Me and for teaching me and for Loving Me. O Teacher, fill me more and more with Your Holy Word. Jesus, I thrive on You! Jesus, I long for You, even as I am IN You. Quench my thirst, my Jesus, with Your Most Precious Blood. Fill me, Lord, with Your Blessed Body. Bless me, Lord, as I read Your Word at Mass today. May You touch and fill the many hearts who gather. Feed us Your Very Self. O Word of God, DO proclaim Yourself by the use of this weak instrument! Amen. [I will be a lector today, at Holy Mass.]
[Jesus speaks.....]
Daughter! I am the Living Water! And I flow where I Will and I nourish all who would receive Me! See! Hear! O people Israel! O nations of the world! I would flow into every heart who would receive Me. NO bush is left barren! No tree goes un-nurtured by My Loving Kindness. I, Who am God, am Word. I am Life. I am Spirit. I am Creation. I am Trinity. I am Who am. And you are My people And you shall be Mine. Unless in the End, you refuse Me. And then, the choice has been yours. For freedom remains. I shall not rescind My Gift to you.O children of the desert, O children of the world, look around you! See the waste! See the bodies piled one on the other See the murder. See the mayhem! See the results of a world gone mad! A world which has chosen a life without Me. Is this "goodness" which is the result of your choice? See how the enemy has fed you HIS POISON! See how you have imbibed so freely his word to you. Can you not see that he countermands My every move, My every offering to you?
Children, I give to you the Water of Life. He places you in a desert of despair. I give to you commands which will keep you, My sheep, from going over the edge. He takes you to the pinnacle and would throw you off, as you step on a false cloud of pride. Can you not yet see any of this? You call some of My Word to you "Old Testament" to divide it from the New. Yet, here I am. Do you not see the errors of those who have gone before you? Would you not learn of their mistakes? O children, you DO have ears which hear and eyes which see. I have seen them made by My Father's Gentle Hand. He has placed these well, into your hearts. Yet you have allowed such a hardening to occur that you now come to settle for confusion rather than Truth; for your lifeless words rather than My Life-giving Word. You place Me in time, in a pocket, in a corner, rather than in the Center of your Life. I am the Way and the Truth and the Life! Come! Be bathed, be nourished in the Value of My Life-giving Water.
I have fed you and watered you, O plant in the desert. I have given to you all that you need, most especially My Life. I ask for one thing: your open heart. That there I might grow by the permission of yourself, a tree that is strong and tall and true. A tree for all the world to see: you. I would use you as an example of True Life in Me; if you would but permit Me.
See the river. See the flood. Yes, water out of control in this world can destroy. But My Life-giving Water is absorbed and fully nurtures where It flows. It rises deeply from within your heart. It washes, cleans, soothes, nourishes. It is never-ending. Sufficient, profound. *I* am the Life-giving Water. I bathe you as a babe in My Arms. I LOVE you SO, My child.
I have given My Life for you. From My Side flows Water and Blood. The final separation from within Me of All Who I am. See! I have given My All for you. And I would give more. But it is complete. Now, it is for you to respond, to grow, here in My Presence. See! This Cross is a Tree of Life and I have drawn you Here that you, as well, can die to Me that you might rise in Me! Here where the world sees death, you who are of Faith, see Life. True Life. In Me. I am God.
What more can I say today? Will you believe Me as did the woman? [ref. John 4:5-42] Will you absorb My Word and be changed? Will you go off and announce to others the Good News you have received, which is now a part of your being? Will you, too, come and follow Me? I have invited you; I have blessed you; I have given to you all that you need. I have given to you: Me. I am the Life which you seek. I am the Countermand to all that is of flesh and world. I am the "enemy" to the enemy who prowls. It is HE who makes Me out to be the waste to you. And while he confuses your thoughts, he is chopping away at your very base to fell you like a tree in the forest. He is feeding your mouth rich worldly food, while he poisons your roots and starves you to death. He is not life, he is death everlasting! He is Satan whose pride could not help but to temp even, Me. I tell you that you know, O children! I expose the enemy! Now, it is for YOU to examine your conscience!
Come to Me! In a moment! In a look, a glance, do I accept you. Your desire to be Here, I shall accept! I long to soothe your tired, weary body! There is NO sin I shall not accept from you! The foulest sin wrapped in a repentant heart is My Greatest Gift! The Gift to Me is YOU! Come! I shall fill you with My Very Self! I shall quench your every need with My Life-giving Water. I shall strengthen you with My Body, My Blood! I shall infuse within you My Spirit. I shall place you in the Very Hands of My Father! I shall give you Life Everlasting! I shall give you ME!
I pause.
I look at you. I look on you.
Will you come? Take My Hand.
Will you be? In Me? It is My Desire. Amen. +
(Ex. 3:1-8, 13-15; Ps. 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11; 1 Cor. 10:1-6, 10-12; Lk. 13:1-9)
(Ex. 17:3-7; Romans 5:1-2, 5-8; John 4:5-42)With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah
