Title:  "Would you cast ME from the Garden in preference to your own understanding of Perfection?" 

(Notebook 55, pp. 158--162)

Live  †  Jesus

Sunday, October 3, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
I put My Arm around My servants, for the world will not receive them anymore than they have received Me.  Where in the world are YOU, little ones?  To encourage growth, to improve.....work the fields of My Vineyard.....I have continually sent forth servants to you.  But in YOUR day, is it YOU who receives?  Or.....beats My servant?  Is it YOU who deters My Word even today?  For My Word is Eternal, for I am God!  Have I not told you that I am the Vine and you are Its branches?  Would you not expect that I would tend to My Flock, even as I have Ascended to My Father?  Is not My Body One, Whole, despite Its many members?  Are not ALL things summed up in Me?  Is it not all One and the Same?   Are you not upon the Vine?  Or are you fruit once splendid, now willfully separated form Me?  Are you jealous of My Roots, My Fruit, the Work of My Labor?  Do YOU ridicule those who have been sent forth to produce good fruit in My Garden?  Are you acting out of envy for the Good that they do, while not attending to your own affairs in Me?  Is it YOU who controls, limits, stunts the growth of My children?  Woe is you!  For YOU shall be cut down in your path, I ASSURE you!

The Purpose of Unity is not simple harmony.....a tune hummed together on key, while still looking upon the differences of one another.  The Purpose of Unity is to be of one heart in Me, with such a clear vision, focus upon Me, that sheer TRUST in Me, makes you ONE!  For, would I gather unto Myself, those who do not belong?  Am I not God.....Sheer Perfection, unable to err?  Would you cast ME from the Garden in preference to your own understanding of Perfection?

I raise up other laborers because in many situations, those I had called first have become infatuated with their own reflections.  I have raised the weak to tame the otherwise wise.  I have shared ALL My Gifts with you.  What have you done with them?  I have given you leadership.....Have you commingled it with pride?  Pride is POISON, little ones.  It MUST be eradicated for your unity in Me!  I have given you teaching, but what have you taught?  If I were to capture your words, and re-present them to you.....would you recognize them in relation to YOUR life?  Do you truly practice what you PREACH, little ones?  Do I give all Good things only for YOU to mete what shall be given and what shall be reserved?  Are you hiding Me from My people, lest your time be intruded upon?  O little one......for you ARE little.....be not of such small mind!  YOU were raised to FEED My sheep, not to STARVE them!  Do NOT stand before Me, accused of such a great CRIME!  To whom do I speak?  To the heart who hears, who is cowering, naked in My Garden.  O!  some things seem never to change!  Pride is a TERRIBLE offense.  It would rob My every Garden!

But for Grace.  My Forgiveness!  Your sorrow!  Yes!  Repentance!  New Life!  In Me!  Shall we begin?  Again?  Anew?  Now?  Here?  Once more?  Please?  Please?  Please?  Yes.....I BEG you!  I beg YOU!

For long enough have you hidden My otherwise verdant pastures.  For long enough have you disconnected every attempt at Unity.  For long enough!  Do you not think that I am the same God who destroyed.....allowed destruction.....that new growth would rise up from the old?  Am I not a God of Justice?  Is My Mercy not as well, Just?  Do I not mean what *I* say?  Am I not WORD?  Living Word?  Word made Flesh?  To DWELL among you?  Then, why do you RESERVE Me so?  I come to BE among My people!  Let it BE!  Please!  Do not stand accused of such a crime as starving My people to death!  Not when Life, True Life lives in your midst!

Yes......there is MUCH going on in My Garden.  And.....there is MUCH which is not!  Unify!  Live of one heart!  Let all which you say you believe.....which is Good.....become the very Life which you LIVE!  Do not eliminate Me, do not reduce Me!  Let Me BE as I long to be:  among, with, in, My people!  Do not withhold this Fertilizer from My Garden!  I am My Own Living Rain of Grace!  I am the Food for every soul!  *I* am all Good things, to all people.  Do not mete Me!  Do not regulate the flow of My Grace!  TRUST that I can do it all.  I can do it all, even for YOU!

To whom do I speak?  To YOU!  Amen!    †

(Is. 5:1-7; Ps. 80:9, 12-16, 19-20; Phil. 4:6-9; Mt. 21:33-43)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah