Title:  "Your good work initially, foremost, is in your repentance before Me."

(Notebook 55, pp. 199-200 and Notebook 56, pp. 1--4)

Live  †  Jesus

Thursday, October 14, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
Justification of self.....is it so important.....how you look to men?  Is it not more important how your heart looks before God?  Children, hear Me.  You tend to assume the role of creator far too often.  You would be the creators of facades, charades, suggestions of who you are rather than the reality of who you are.  And the worst part of such behaviour is that you tend to convince yourselves that who you are not, is who you are.  And this is the greatest blockage of your development in Me.

Once you begin to enter into such behaviour, you continue to build an entire world around you.  You prefer those who agree with you.  You shun, even destroy, those around you who would challenge the truth of your own life.  But I tell you this:  Truth is Truth.  And lie is lie.  All the in between you so fondly cling to, shall pass away.  Ah!  I repeat Myself yet again!  And I SHALL repeat Myself until I see you standing here before Me.  At My Judgment seat.  And then the verdict cast upon you will already be known in your heart.  For Truth cannot hide in My Presence.  I am, afterall.....Truth!

And so, there is this issue of salvation and Faith and works.  Here, I shall explain.  Faith is a Gift.  Salvation is a Gift.  Freely given to you, earned by ME!  But Faith is then supported by the evidence of your life within it.  Faith without good works is an indication of no Faith at all.  Because Faith is Life and there is no Life if you do not LIVE your Faith.  Do you not breathe?  Do you not digest?  Do you not walk, move, indicate that life exists?  Is there not evidence that you are alive?  Well....this is the place of Good Works in a Life of Faith.  You cannot come to truly know Me and not be pouring forth Good Works.

Works without True Faith are no good works at all.   They are self-serving acts,  self-opinioned acts, acts of your own doing in a life YOU have created for yourself.  And so, how well do you receive one another.  Do you still judge the other in your midst?  Where is your OWN conscience?  Where is your own examination of YOU?

I ask you to do something for Me, lambs.  Each time your mind would wander to the condition of another's soul, stop immediately and ask yourself where such a behaviour might be in YOU.  For there is a reason you have so quickly recognized the fault of another.  It is because you easily recognize it for its familiarity to YOU!  Do you see?  And when you do recognize this failing, this weakness, even this sin, bring it to Me immediately.  Now.....THIS is Faith in action.  Seeing clearly that *I* am the Saviour.  YOu are the sinner.  Your good work initially, foremost, is in your repentance before Me.  Ah!  Yes!  Today's Psalm.  It is what binds together My Word!  .....Yes, child, explain.....

(My Lord!  As I read today's readings, I could barely understand St. Paul's letter to the Romans.  The Psalm is well known to my heart and Your Gospel I likewise have known, but none of it seemed to be a part of the other.  I have asked You, my Lord, to instruct me.  And You have helped me, Lord, to understand Your Word and the significance of why Your Church has placed these three readings together.  Thank You, Lord, for my dimness, that I might turn to You, O God, my Teacher, my Love.)
 
This IS the Word of the Lord.  I am Jesus.  Your King.  Saviour.  Teacher.   Friend.  Lord.  Love, yes.  The very Love of your Life.  And I SHALL teach.  Would that you have ears to hear and a heart thirsty for True Knowledge of Me.  Too many have killed My Word.  Let Me live in you.  Please.  All.  Yes.  You.  Amen.

(I Love You, Jesus!  I kiss Your page.)

I receive your lips, child.  They rest upon My Heart.

(O!  Thank You, Lord!  Praise be to You, O Glorious Love!)

All words such, are words of the Lord.  For Love cannot be without Me.  Now go.   Live today.  Be in Me.  Amen.     †

(Yes, Jesus.  Thank You, Lord.  Amen.  God be praised!  Alleluia!)

(Romans 3:21-29; Psalm 130:1-6; Luke. 11:47-54)

With Love, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
His Sarah