You must constantly wrestle with self, that your service to Me would become more pure.

Messages From on High - "I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 927

Title: "You must constantly wrestle with self, that your service to Me would become more pure."

(Notebook 54, pp. 20--25)

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[Jesus speaks.....]
How does God wrestle with man? How does man wrestle with God. Would that hearts would be set free, but for their wrestling with themselves.

[In this moment, I see interiorly, a scene as in many a cartoon: wherein a fight breaks out and all the participants jump on one another and then, out from the very bottom, crawls one of the participants.....usually the one who had been the instigator or focus of the fight in the first place.]

[Jesus continues.....]
.....And so, the wrestling of a heart. Its struggle with self. Its fear of dealing with God. Its lack of recognition that the struggle is part of the Path to a True Life in Me. That one must come to let go of all which binds the heart; for until it does, naught will be accomplished. It is one thing to wrestle with God.

See? I would heal you. I would set you free of all which binds you; but YOU must let ME enter the arena, the fight, the struggle. The purpose, afterall, is your service to Me.....To know, Love and serve.....ME!

Ah! There are many who claim to be Mine, but so few who are willing to endure in My service, as *I* would be served! To serve Me as I would be served, not as you are willing by your own standards. You must constantly wrestle with self, that your service to Me would become more pure. For as you serve Me purely, we wrestle with the very forces which would destroy your heart and those around you.

And so I say to pray. For yourselves and for one another. Your strength can help another in their weakness. And yet, the sight of your weakness can help to make another strong. It is all about where YOU are willing to be in ME. What effort are you willing to put out? How long are you willing to endure? There are many people who claim to be Mine, afterall, but how many are willing to Truly serve Me? To fight the Good Fight. To win the Race.....in Me?

Are you ready to shed the world and fight for True Life in Me? And how shall you learn to fight for Me unless you are willing to be in Me? Will you let Me help you? Teach you? Show you the way? Or, will you start the fight and then sneak away, unsuccessful in why you have done what you had set out to do? Yes, one way is as a cartoon. The other is Reality. The Good Fight leads to and through My Cross. And Resurrection is the Promised Hope.

Come, follow Me. And I pray you stay, remain, grow and come to be. In Me. Amen. †