Do what I tell you, because it is Good for you.

Messages From on High - "I am the Way to a True Life in Me"
Message 944

Title: "Do what I tell you, because it is Good for you."

(Notebook 54, pp. 91--93)

Live † Jesus

[The Lord speaks.....]
I demand follow-through from the children who follow Me. There is a job to be done and it must come to completion. In Me. I set you out like seedlings. I nurture you that you can grow. Why then, do you transplant yourselves away from Me? I give you Laws. Why then, do you ignore them? I am not old-fashioned, My lambs. In fact, I am very current! As current as each Particular Judgment before Me!

The Word. The Word. The Word. I have given My Only Son that you might grow under the nurturing of His Cross.....His Body.....His Blood.....His Word. Yet, you would flee every cross. You.....all too many, disdain His Eucharist. And His Word.....how well do you keep it? Do you even know it? That you might come to understand it? That you might come to live within it?

My Son gives Himself to you even now in the Church. How well are you steeped in Her [the Church's] Mystery. For to know Her is to Love Her is to know and Love My Son, is to know and Love Me, by the Power of the Spirit's Breath within the Church. Do you see? You CANNOT afford mediocrity, little ones! Your growth cannot be forced. Afterall, YOU are not a hot house flower. YOU must grow with deep roots dug down well into Truth. Your stem must be strong in Me to fend off the varied and many attacks of the enemy. And your bud must be prepared to burst forth in new life and with seed to benefit all around you. For THIS is True Life in Me.

Did you think it would be, could be, any other way? No, dear lambs, children, My Own. No. You are called here to obey Me. Because My Law is like mother's milk to you. The world has given you less taste for what is Good and more tolerance for what is evil. That is because the world succumbs to the power of evil, to the lure of flesh. But you are not OF this world, lambs. You, who have been brought to Me through Baptism, are of Spirit.....My Most Holy Spirit. And from this Vantage Point you are able to grow within Perfection's Garden where *I* am the Gardener! YOU are the seedling and My Grace is the Rain from Heaven to nurture you.

Do not resist My Ways any longer, little ones. Do what I have set forth for you......because it is Good for you.....Yes, a Parent's Plea. Do what I tell you, because it is Good for you.

Will you hear? Will you live? Or will I look, and see you swept away, churned under in My Garden? There is no need, little ones, because in Me is the Perfect Growth. In Me is All Goodness. And YOU have been invited to live in Me. In Me. Not in between! In. Me. Amen. †