Title:  "So many truly grand moments are lost by self-indulgent pride."

(Notebook 55, pp. 105--110)

Live  †  Jesus

Sunday, September 19, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
Dear ones, dear lambs, dear children, I address you now.  I speak from My Heart, that you might understand Me now.  My prayer is that you would be one in Me.  I say, "you."  Yes, YOU, to whom I am speaking.  I have come that YOU would be one in Me.  And if this act is accomplished, then My Heart is full and complete!  Because of YOU.  So.....shall we begin our journey....again?

So often are you "side-tracked".....disillusioned by life, sorry for self.  So often do you need Me, yet you do not reach out for Me, and another precious moment of growth for your soul passes you by.  I had reached out to you, but you were busier, more concerned, to hold your own heart to examine its own sad state of affairs.  Had you come with Me in that moment, I would have shown you the larger picture of your life, which *I* see.  I would have let you see how your sorrow was to be a part of your Joy.  How your development would have made you strong.  How your strength would greatly assist others, by quite simply becoming the newer "you" which we would make together.  O!  So many truly grand moments are lost by self-indulgent pride.  For it is pride which causes one to focus on self.  Hurt pride.....yes?  Is this not, truly, the case?

(Yes, Lord.....pride.)

And child, what do you see?

(Lord, I see a large thumbprint of sinful pride upon me.  The stain of pride passed on through original sin.  .....Praise be to YOU, O God!  For You are our Hope.  By Your Most Precious Wounds, O Jesus, You have saved the world!)

Yet, you must come to Me?

(Yes, my Lord.)

To be saved?

(No, Lord, for You alone have accomplished it.  Alleluia!)

Then, why must you approach Me?

(My Lord.....because of free will.  You wait for our free willed choice to accept Salvation.)

To live.....

(Yes, Lord, to LIVE in You now, that we will live FOREVER in Your Eternity!  O God!  I LOVE You.)

And child.....

(My Lord, thank You for this opportunity of cleansing!  Yes, Lord. .....Grumbling!  It is a festering wound of pride within me.  And by it I have offended You this day.  It has nearly killed an act of Charity I would perform.  But by YOU, my Lord and My God.....I have placed it in Your Wounds and sought Your Forgiveness for my sin.)

And why is the lesson repeated here?

(Because You have asked, my Lord, if I would do so.....for the teaching.  I have said yes, my Lord.  Because it is Your Will, O God, and mine as well.)

And you are forgiven?

(Yes, Lord, by Your Holy Wounds!  And Life in You teaches me how to grow!  THANK YOU, O Lord.  God be PRAISED!)

And so.....grumbling over oneself.....it can be as laying a foundation for a wall which would separate us.  You from Me.   Grumbling can erect a wall in the well of self-pity and it is where you can drown in pride.  And to drown in pride is the delight of the enemy.

And so.....What of Justice.  Justice in Salvation.  Why are you looking left or right, when you should be looking straight ahead or within, at Me?  Your delight should be that I have saved YOU, little one.  No.....not to the uncharitable exclusion of one another, but for the perfection of your own soul in Me.  Trust in Me, lamb, that by your improvement in Me, so too, shall be the Body improved.  Trust that I shall do this aside of you, or with you.  But right NOW, I speak to YOU.  For YOU are My Concern here.  That YOU enter My Heart.

And the Lesson is:  Focus on Me. We repeat the Lesson until you have mastered it with your life.  For oneness shall not be, unless you look where you are going.  And you cannot be one in Me, if you are constantly looking elsewhere to those rivals which would absorb you, by your will, from Me.

Salvation is the Reward for everyone who would follow Me.  Come, little one.  Here.  Here is  My Hand.  It is time for you to come before Me to receive the wage for your service in Me.  What shall be your Reward?  Salvation?  Or self-pity?  Salvation?  Or pride?  Progress in Me?  Or a puffing of your own pride?

Absolution of sin?  Or a maintenance of sin?  Freedom from this life for a True Life in Me? Well?.....What shall be the fruit of your labor, your life in Me?  Let us be honest with one another, lamb.  What shall it be?

Amen.     †

(Is. 55:6-9; Ps. 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18; Phil. 1:20-24, 27; Mt. 20:1-16)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah