Title:  "Why, O why, can you not keep your garment clean that you might enter My Kingdom freely?"

(Notebook 54, pp. 195--199)

Live  †  Jesus

Thursday, August 19, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Abba speaks.....]
Daughter, lambs, children, hear Me speak to you this day, this moment, this "now."   What promises have you made?  What promises have you made to the Lord your God?  Do you know that though you take so much so lightly, I do not?  If I can see all things, and I see the sincerity of your heart, then why would you not be in a certain fear of displeasing Me?  Though I am Mercy, I am Justice, too.  The fear of the Lord is respect:  respect of our relationship, you and I.

You have promised Me, through your Baptism, how to live.  Through this act, you have become My Own.  I have washed you clean.  I have made you sinless in that moment, weak in nature, but free from all which separates you from Me.  Why, O why, do you turn your back on all which I have given to you?  You have promised Me how to live.....In Me.  And yet.....because I knew you would become stained with sin, I gave to you My Son.  And by His Own Word to Me, He gave Himself for you.  He is the Renewness of your garment.  In Him do you enter My Kingdom.  By His Life for you, do you win the Right to enter My Kingdom, by Him through My Spirit.  Baptism is the cleansing, the point of entry.  But Life is the Way through My Son.  And sin forgiven, purged, is an act of My Mercy.

Little ones, can you not see all which has been done for you?  You could accomplish no good thing on your own; and your God has won for you Salvation.  Why, O why, can you not keep your garment clean that you might enter My Kingdom freely?  Why, O why, would you refuse Me, this Place, this Kingdom where I would have you live Life Eternal in Me?  Why do you chance your eternity to the enemy?

I ask you to ponder this Message.  I ask you to ponder My Son's Gospel.  You have heard it many times.  Yet, there are empty seats at My Banquet Table.   Some are dressed appropriately, others are not.  Where are you?  At Table?  Away?  Excused by your own mouth, your own sin?  What is the condition of YOUR garment, little ones?  The Promise has been made, afterall.  How well have you kept YOUR word?

My lambs, hear Me.  I am quite serious in this regard!  Life is your chance at Eternity.  Life is your place at Table.....or not.  Your garment.....your life.....your soul.....How bright shall it be at My Table?  Will you dine with Me, or be ejected from My Sight?  What chance would you take in that final moment when so suddenly, your entire life is one moment before Me?  And that glorious garment you have pretended to wear turns brown with the soot of sinful stain?  What will  you do when there is  no life left? ..... When you step from breath to Eternity?  When you are no longer in control?

My lambs, hear Me.  The condition of your soul is a most precious privilege you have been given.  Do not abuse this gift.  For the abuse you render yourself with sin could be your own sentence for all eternity.  In the end it is Haven or hell.   And it is you, now, who decides your fate.  I have given you all you need to come to Me.

I have served you well, that you might spend all Eternity in Me.  I withhold nothing that you need.  What shall you do to improve your condition?  I have provided every moment for you.  Advantage yourself of all I have given, of all that I give.

I sit and wait for your arrival.  I pray you ponder now, these Words.  I pray you live the resolve of what you ponder.  For True Life lived now, is True Life forever.  In Me.  Amen.    †

(Judges 11:29-39; Ps. 40:5, 7-10; Mt. 22:1-14)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah