Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 458
Title: " If you had fully "eaten" My Word, you would see the Truth written here. "
(Notebook XLIII, pp. 41--47)
Live + Jesus
Fourth week of Lent, March 24, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
My Lord, all winter long, Your birds have sung a song of Spring in the air outside this window. To listen to them, Jesus, one would think there is a mistake. For they have sung in the snow and the ice and the frigid air which today etches itself in frozen frost. They do not seem to care, my Lord, that it is winter. Their song of Glory has poured forth, no matter what. And I thank You, my Jesus, for this song of Hope. Thank You, my Lord, for the song of Your birds. May my heart sing, as well, a song of Hope. In You, my Lord, in You! Eternal Spring! Eternal Life! Love, Faith, Hope! I sing with the birds! Hear my heart, O Lord! Amen!!
[The Lord speaks.....]
Now let us talk of water, child. There are those this day who know all too well, the powerful flow of water. Like so much of My Nature, My Creation, life gone unchecked can kill. All must be in proximity to Me. Where in your heart is the song? Is the Glory Mine? Or do you like to hear yourself speak? Does the water flow freely at its own pace, or have you cracked a flood wall to increase it before its time? Has the water nourished the land? Or stripped it bare in the force of the flow? I give Life; look for the Life!Let us look, now, under the mat. You recall the mat. I asked that it be lifted, carried away. [ref. today's Gospel] I have stood accused of evil in the sight of the law. Another strike against Me. A worthy offense to kill Me? Pride has permitted the placement of a mat to become part of the case against Me. But what of the man who has moved the mat? What was his offense? In My Eyes there is none. For he has obeyed. And obedience is the completion of the cure. How well do YOU obey?
Birds! Shall I silence them? Because they break the norm? No song birds in winter? Why? Who is in charge of Nature, afterall? Let them SING! Let My Glory resound! Do not look too closely at the law, you may be building a case against Me!
Yes, the law. The heart. The water. Flood or cleansing. Disaster or Life. Obedience to whom? For whom ultimately, is all just law made? To keep all within it on a path to ME! And who is the Judge: Me or you?
Can you not trust in Me? Can you not rely on Me? Or do you prefer the Company of yourself? Are My Thoughts too freeing? That you prefer the prison of your own. Would you remain paralyzed on a mat, or would your come, follow Me? Come. Follow. Me! Do not lay there, COME! Do not stand there, FOLLOW! Who? ME!
Child, you do not have to swallow these Words. I have given you Scripture. Why have you not dined fully on My Meal? If you had fully "eaten" My Word, you would see the Truth written here. But you were looking at a mat. And I was looking at the world! Your focus became small. And *I* have given you freedom! I have called you to be in ME, but you have preferred the company of yourself. Where is the Pharisee? Where is the Scribe? Would they silence Me, again? They are here, in My midst.
But I have drawn you to the bank of My free flowing water. I would grow you Here. Plant you Here. Nourish you Here. For I see your goodness. Let no one cast an evil, judging eye on another. For the most succulent fruit is yet to be.
My children! I have called you to Love one another! Do not forget this fact. That you are "pharisee", "Jew", "gentile", "scribe" is a title, a work which can divide. Look beyond the name; see the heart and Who resides there: it is *I*. What you do to the least of these, you do unto Me.
Take your mat and move on. Be CONCERNED with My Law! It is LOVE! I am Love. I am God! Be in Me. As I am in you! One. Holy. Catholic. Apostolic! BE Church! Do not weather your own foundation! We would be strong. And if you chip at the foundation, recall the Cornerstone. It is I.
Lambs! Do not attack one another! You attack Me! Are you building a case against Me? Or are you for Me? Would you presume My Innocence? Or prepare once again, My guilt? How loose is the case against Me? How strong is the case against you? Remove the wooden beam from your own eye. Leave the splinter of your neighbor up to Me.
[And then, so tenderly.....] My child, hear Me! Come to Me. Do not accuse one another. I would stop the repetition of history. I would stop it with Me Who is Love. [And then, with exasperation......] Be in Me! Love in Me. Live in Me! P-L-E-A-S-E! Be healed! Pick up your mat! Can you? Will you? Obey Me? PLEASE, child. I long to HEAL you! Trust that I, Who knows all, knows precisely what I am doing! I am Loving YOU;
I am healing YOU! Why? Because you need it. You need Me. FULLY! Be in Me. Stop being, for now, in the heart of another. Let us start anew Here. Here at This Source of Life. It is I. I am Jesus. You are My Love. BE in Me. As I Desire. Leave your desires at the door. Enter Here, into the Depths of My Heart! Let the healing begin. Rise and walk. Come to Me. Be in Me. Amen. +
(Ez. 47:1-9, 12; Ps. 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; Jn. 5:1-3, 15-16)
With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah
