Title: "
Lambs, LOOK upon My Cross! SEE the Life there!
"
(Notebook XLIII, pp. 85--91)
Live + Jesus
Fifth week of Lent, Tuesday, March 31, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
O my Sweet Lord
Thank You for all the Living Crosses in our midst. All those, my
Lord, in whom You are SO alive. I bow before Your Presence in them,
Lord. For I DO see You there. In their suffering. In
their healing. In their bearing of sickness and pain. I see
their eyes and hearts, so focused on You, my Lord. Thank You, Jesus,
for Your Cross in our midst. I bow before Your Presence in each one
of them for letting me see You more closely.....there within their own
lived example of Your Cross. Thank You, Jesus, for my sisters and
brothers. Amen.
Sarah, lift your pen, place it on the paper, and let us write.
(Yes, my Lord and my God.)
People of the world; people of every nation; people of every heart:
Hear Me. I ask you now: Who do you say is speaking to you?
Do you believe it is I, the Lord, or not? I test your Faith.
People of the world, people of every nation, people of every heart:
Who has died for your sins? Is it I, the Lord? Are you sorrowful
for the sins, yours, which have placed Me to die on a Cross? My Cross?
Holy Cross?
Children of the world, every nation, every heart, hear Me:
I, the Lord, DO speak to you. I DO live for you. I HAVE died
for you. And without My Living Sacrifice, you would forever be wandering
in a land not My Own. For SEE, little children: I HAVE
called you forth from a desert waste into the Oasis of My Life. I
have asked you to look upon Me and to become IN Me. To join Me.
Wherever we are to meet. You and I.
And how shall we endure? You and I? Where shall our focus
be? In the pain of the moment? Or upon Me? Are you to
see My Glory, My Hope? Or would you rather focus on momentary pain,
momentary suffering. Children, I say "momentary" because how
long, afterall, is THIS life when compared to all of My Eternity?
And to BE here fully in Me is the Road to Eternal Life. Yes!
You advance. In Me. By Me. Through Me. Forever,
in Me!
And what shall you believe? Fact or fancy? Have I not
been born? Have I not lived? Have I not proclaimed the Glory
of My Father by My Life? Have I not cried "Abba, Father" even until
the end? Do I still not, bow before the Throne of My Father?
I am Who am. I have always been. I shall always be. And
I invite YOU into My Being.
Life tends to be a matter of perspective, of focus. On Whom?
Me? And once you see Me, does your vision wander? Children,
this can be death. Eternal death. Eternal damnation.
This is a very serious matter, children. It is your eternal life
of which I speak.
You cannot have one eye on Me and the other elsewhere. In the
crossed vision, you shall fall. You are incomplete. You must
come to Me fully, if you so choose.
Lambs, I pause and I look at you. I look to see if you are
reading Me: My Word. Have you yet begun to read My Daily Word?
"Thus says the Lord" ......For so many generations, this is all they have known of Me.
And though they have wandered the desert, still they have listened to,
"Thus says the Lord."
C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N you have Me Wholly, Completely. Your excuse
cannot be one of ignorance. Not if you are HERE! Not if you
have heard! This is not a case of "Thus says the Lord." This
is a case of the Lord speaks, firsthand to His people. ARE YOU My
people? Then let Me look and see you growing in Me; not wilting like
desert blooms in the heat and arid wasteland!
Look upon Me, My lambs. Be healed by your "Yes" to Me!
LIVE in Me! BELIEVE in Me! BE in Me! I am the Lord!
YOUR Lord! Speaking to you HERE. Directing you to READ MY WORD:
MY HOLY SCRIPTURE. I bring you there to look and live and believe
in Me. To BE in Me. I do not allow you to starve. But
it is for YOU to eat all the nourishing food I leave before you!
My Church contains all you need. She is My Bride, your Mother.
Yet, she is YOU. You in ME! Mystery, lived! In Me!
Lambs, LOOK upon My Cross! SEE the Life there! See the
Conversion from desert and wandering to Purpose and Grace. To Glory
by suffering. To Life by death. By Me. By Me. By
Me.
I am the Way. I am the Truth. I am the Life. Look
at My Cross. Its Arms reach out to all of you. It is planted
in the earth, but it reaches to the Father. It is Eternal motion
in Me. It is death in victory over sin. It is Life everlasting.
It is the Way to a True Life in Me.
Focus not in the dying but in the Hope of rising. In Me.
To the Father. Amen.
Yet again, I look. Are you Here? With Me? For Me?
In Me? In My Church? Living My Word? Eating My Flesh?
Drinking My Blood? Being in Me? Fully? Are you here?
Are you?
In silence, I urge you to ponder these facts. In silence I
urge you to embrace My Cross. In boldness I ask you to live.
In Me. To live. In Me. Amen. +