Title: "
Do you Love Me? Do you Love Me? Do you Love Me? Will you follow?
"
(Notebook XLV, pp. 11--14)
Live + Jesus
Friday, May 29, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
[The Lord speaks.....]
Ah! The depth of Love! How deep is it? Shall you
go to trial for Me? Shall you stand your ground for Me? Will
you fold when things are not as you envisioned they would be?
Or will you rely upon Me? Shall I challenge you further?
What do you do when you think all shall be lost? Do you put Me aside?
Do you choose rather, to "think for yourselves?" My lambs, hear Me:
followers of Me need to FOLLOW. EVERYWHERE I go. Even
to the Cross. Know this, My lambs. I have prepared you.
But you have yet to take a full advantage of all I have done for you.
There is still a blockage of "self."
Do you Love Me? What is your answer in the face of what I have
said? Let us examine your conscience. For you DO desire to
follow, but you must fully comprehend the depths of what I require of you
now, in this day. I ask nothing you are unprepared to do. O
children. The True Life is already within you! How can you
truly prepare for a future in fear? Fear is not from Me. MY
Gift of Fear of the Lord is a fear of loss of Me. But you are concerned
with worldly loss. I ask again, do you Love Me?
Shall you come and follow Me, but I am not permitted on various segments
of what become YOUR journey? You want Me in good time. You
need Me in the bad. But when there seems to be a place for your knowledge
to rule, do you cast Me out? Does the Gift of Reason void your following
Me? Children, I am not pleased with all you choose to do without
Me. That you choose to avoid the Depths of My Love for how I would
protect you and provide for you. Ah! The test. The trial.
How will you fare? How ARE you faring now? You say you Love
Me. Yes. But do you truly Love Me completely? I ask YOU
thrice, because you, as well, have betrayed Me.
Little ones, hear Me. I have told you that Life is a journey,
and it is. If you are IN Me, you will see a motion, a change, a growth
within yourself. Not affected by you, but permitted by Me.
Have you never made a journey and arrived sooner than any predictions for
time? Children, life in Me is like-in-kind. Focusing on Me
can shorten the Journey. Because I have Graced your willing heart.
Do you Love Me? Do you Love Me? Do you Love Me?
Will you follow? Come and follow? My Way? Or your way?
My Knowledge? Or the fleeting knowledge of your minds? Are
you willing to go on trial for Me, for all you say you believe? Do
you live what you say you believe? Do you truly LIVE it?
I stand before you. Will you honour Me by joining Me?
Truly? This time? I know you WANT to Love Me. I know
you think you do. Come. Follow. Let My Love increase
within you. Let us walk together, ever deeper into My Love.
Children, I am God and I am Everlasting. Come forth. Take My
Hand. Everlasting Love awaits you.
Do you Love Me? Let us see. Let us journey. Come,
follow Me. Amen. +
(Acts 25:13-21; Ps. 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20; Jn. 21:15-19)