Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 451
Title: " The Growth to Perfection is a Journey, not a miracle. "
(Notebook XLII, pp. 189--195)
Live + Jesus
Third Week of Lent, Tuesday, March 17, 1998
St. PatrickDear Jesus and Holy Mother,
Twice this morning, Lord, You have consoled me with Psalm 22. For there has been a certain tension in the air around me and I refuse to be swept away by it. I pray Your Name. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Over and over. And You Who are Word, give me Psalm 22. My Lord, so often do I see myself as clinging to You, the rest of me dangling; but my arms wrapped around Your Precious Neck, as a babe clings to his parent for support. You, my Jesus, are my All and Everything! Without You, Jesus, there is no sense in my life. You, O Jesus, are my Constancy! O Lord! I do so Love today's Word. How Azariah prays up from within the flames! Your Words to us of limitless forgiveness. Forgive us our trespasses, Lord, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Grace us, O Lord, that we might have the strength to trust in you and to forgive one another. Grace ME, O Lord, for without Your support, I will surely fall. Amen.
Daughter, well you have written the feelings of your heart! (My Lord! To Whom can I turn? You are the Word, my Life, my Strength. You are my Comfort! I Love You, O Lord!!)
Daughter, I stand here before you. Beckoning. You. Each of My children. To come to Me. To be in Me. For there is nothing of this passing age which goes unnoticed in My Vision. There is nothing of your life which I do not concern Myself in. I uphold you, save sin, which I would wash from you by your own sorrow.
Lambs, hear Me. I AM your Strength. In your weakness, you are strong! Rejoice with Me over your weakness! For you to admit your need, you are being honest with yourself. You are being honest before Me. And where once there was weakness, now I am Strength. Let the fires leap about you! Yes, they will lick at your feet. But they shall not truly consume you, because you have offered that better part to Me. Your soul.
How is it that you are in a fire? What action has brought you here? Who is it that has caused this moment of infliction? You? Another? What shall we do about THAT? Forgive one another as I forgive you! Forgive yourself! How shall you ever receive the fullness of My Mercy if there is a wall, a floodgate, around your heart. It is YOU who prevent the final cleansing. For you have set out to block My entry! If I would rise up from within you, you would set out to contain Me. See! You are setting out to restrict the Hand of God. And I, Who honour My Covenants, do not remove your free will. In the end, it is an interior conflict. Here within a heart. Here where the true cleansing must be.
Do not measure your life in Me. I have not measured My Outpouring to you. My Love is immeasurable. My Spirit would flow where and when He Will, unless it is not your desire to receive Him. Do you not see the power you contain in your heart? O children! You possess the door and the key. Only you can unlock the Power of Me within you! By a "yes", a glance, a desire. Then slowly, we will proceed. For I Desire your complete Trust. To say you Trust and to live your Trust are two separate ways. My Way is Complete. My Way is your Journey. O children, DO be patient with yourselves, but DO remain in motion within Me. Tardiness and laziness are not of Me. Delaying because of lack of Trust is not motion in Me. I will take your inch. Eventually, we shall have a mile!
Children, look at the world around you. Even I, Who am God, have built it in stages. That you might observe that the Growth to Perfection is a Journey, not a miracle. It is a Way, a road, a progress. All is in motion TO Me. See? And so are you. Be patient with yourself, little one. I forgive you. Will you forgive yourself? Recall this: I am God and you are not. I ask you to try for Perfection as My Father is Perfect. Perfection occurs as you leave behind those parts of you which bind you to this earth. Abandonment into Me is true freedom. Freedom for you to be all you have been made to be: in My Image.
Lambs, look at My Life. Its Purpose is forgiveness of sins. I say: be like Me. Forgive. Let go of guilt that the scars within you might be healed.
So many Words do I speak to you. Will you follow Me? Really? Where are your feet, little one? Stuck on your path? Or are you being carried by Me? If I set you down are you Here in My Imprint? Or do you wander off to build, yet, another road, away from Me?
Simplicity. I am Simplicity. Come follow Me. Forgive as I forgive you. Be in Me. Love one another as I Love you. Achieve Oneness: it is the Gift of My Father to you. Live in My Spirit. He is My Gift to you. Lay in the arms of My Mother. She is My Gift to you. Rejoice in the Cross. It is My Gift to you. Rejoice! Rejoice! For I am the Way. I am the Truth. I am the Life. I have given My Very Life for you. Now it is simple. Come, follow Me. Amen. +
(Dn. 3:25, 34-43; Ps. 25:4-9; Mt. 18:21-35)
With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah
