Title:  "I AM your Good Shepherd Who must CHASE you through the pasture, for you flee many of the advances I make to draw you closer to My Heart."

(Notebook 5,6 pp. 90--94)

Live  †  Jesus

Thursday, November 4, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
My little ones, hear Me speak to you this day.....and yes.....every day.  For I DO Love you so!  Consider this:   for you to be My Hand, reaching out from My Heaven, to scoop you up from the ordinariness of your lives, to place you upon My Shoulders, that you would be able to see the Truth in this world.....as you say.....to see the forest for the trees.  Child, I speak in ordinary ways for ordinary people.

You are judged, My children, from time to time.....you are judged ill because of Me.  Why do My children not consider that God would choose to work through His people, when I have already said that you are My Hands, My Feet?  Why are you so surprised when I come to you in your neighbor?  Why are you so surprised when I scoop you up to reform you as you allow Me?  To use you as I Will?  Am I not the Potter?  Are you not the clay?  Yet My children who will to be for Me, fall in judgment as did I.  "Yes" is a short word, a brief word, yet a powerful word; a word of great speed.  By it, My Will can be done.  By it, another can become self alienated because the other is sluggish.....if at all.....in rendering "yes" and the "yes" of the other stands as a self accusation to the one who tarried along the way.  And rather than to rejoice over the progress of the other, there is repulsion.....For what else can it be called, when one does not rejoice in the spiritual growth of one's brother, one's sister.  Is it jealousy or rejoicing which you feel?  As I lift one to My Shoulders do you praise your God for His Act of Kindness and Mercy?  Or do you criticize and judge the position in Me of your neighbor, your friend, your sister, brother, mother, father, spouse?  Do you criticize the childlike in Me?  Or do you disdain their manner.  Have  I not said that unless you become as a child, you shall not enter My Kingdom?  Have I not meant what I have said?  Did YOU not think that My Word was firm, with full intent of Its meaning?  Did you not truly believe that in YOUR hearing the Scripture is fulfilled?  Have I not truly come for ONE sinner......for you?  Why do you resist Me so?  You squirm all too often, from My Hands.  I AM your Good Shepherd Who must CHASE you through the pasture, for you flee many of the advances I make to draw you closer to My Heart.

I speak.  ARE you listening?  Are you LIVING My Word?  Truly?  Or are you about knowing the letters of the Word, but not The Word Itself?  How well lived is My Word in your life?  Are you a stagnant pond?  Or a life-giving, flowing stream from My Side?  Are you recognizable by your life?  Or by your tombstone?  Are you part of My Resurrection?  Or are you stuck still, in limbo?  Have you left the Upper Room filled with My Spirit?  Or are you still there, cowering in its corner?  Well???

Think of these things before you judge one another.  Consider these things as I stand before you to lift you to My Breast, because YOU are the sinner for whom I have suffered and died.

Represent Me boldly, children, to the world.  Though the world would deny Me, do not do so yourself!  LIVE My Word!  BE in My Word!  BE alive in Me.  Now and forever.  Amen.    †

(Romans 14:7-12; Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14; Luke 15:1-10)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah