Messages From on High
"I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 639
Title: "Your frustrations are your own. They are a clear sign of where you have excluded Me."
(Notebook XLVII, pp. 191--194)
Live † Jesus
St. Matthew, Monday, September 21, 1998
Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,
My Lord, there is a thought within me this morning which will not leave me alone. And it is that I am a rock, sitting on the road's edge, and I wait in constant Hope for that moment when You will pass by, my Lord; when You will again pick me up, that I might feel the Gentle Warmth of Your Hand. My Lord, in utter nothingness I wait for You. For if I am to become anything at all, it will be by Your Kind Hand. O Sweet Lord! Refresh me with Your Gentle Rain. Smooth me and make me anew! O Lord! How ordinary things become grand by Your Touch! Thank You, Lord, forever and ever! Amen!
[Jesus speaks.....] Pick up your pen and follow Me, Sarah. For I would lead you, I would teach you. And I would teach and lead all who would follow Me. All are invited. None are excluded. But many exclude Me from their lives. I become an appointment on their social calendar. I become a duty, an obligation.....in some cases.....to be endured. I become the millstone around some necks. I become their limitation rather than their Freedom. And why? Because I am being held prisoner within a heart, their own.
These are the things that occur to Me. I am Resurrected, yet some would constantly bury Me. Joy rushing through your veins, should be your life in Me. But all too many choose boredom of self: self who tries to containerize their God. The result of such an endeavor is interior frustration. Children, I tell you this: your frustrations are your own. They are a clear sign of where you have excluded Me. Yes. Where YOU have excluded ME.
What would YOU do if I walked right up to you now, and asked you: Come follow Me. Would you come? Do you say "yes"? But child, all too often in your life, I have walked away empty-handed. Or you have followed, but when I turned, you were gone. O! So very distracted are you!
But, I am a Patient God. I wait. In invite. I beckon, constantly. I have become used to rejection, but I do not accept it as a final answer. The world is large and round and full of delights. Yet I am in and around and beyond the world! All too many refuse Me. I am Eternal Promise, Eternal Life, and instead, the choice is made for fleeting pleasure and things of this world which soon disappear. You are serious about many things in this world, but truly avoid those things which mark your eternity.
Do you hear Me now? Have you followed now? Would you be filled as I would fill you. .....Yes, child, use it today. (Yes, my Jesus.)
"The soul that is the humblest and most despised will be most loved by His adorable Heart. The most despoiled and stripped of all things will possess It more fully." ["Thoughts and Sayings of St. Margaret Mary" for September 21]
And now I say again: Come follow Me. Be in Me. Now. And forever. Amen. †
(Eph. 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps. 19:2-5; Mt. 9:9-13)
With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah
