Title:  "Now is the time to willingly rebuild YOUR temple."

(Notebook 55, pp. 119--122)

Live  †  Jesus

Thursday, September 23, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
My children, My people, hear Me speak to you this day.  Herod the Tetrarch sought Me.   But even when in his presence, he did not see Me.  How can this be?  Because he was judging Me on My outside.  Herod was so used to outward accouterment that he could not understand the Glory within Me.  And the question is:  What was he truly seeking in his meeting with Me?  Was he looking to resolve his curiosity?  Or was he looking to grow within?  I know his heart, for I have seen it.

Are YOU more concerned with YOUR outward appearance than what I would see on your inside?  All that is in darkness shall come to light.  It is one thing to observe from your own place of security.  It is quite another to permit a building, rebuilding of your interior surface.....to improve, perfect, the place in which I dwell.

And so, you praise Me.  But know this, lamb, lambs, that praise of Me rings truer in a willingly purified heart.  For I am God, and the direction of My Attention is directed to your eternal soul.  For what is lasting is My Concern.  And Perfection is the Way cleared by the cleansing of your heart.  But it is a matter of willingness.  Willingness to pursue Truth.  Willingness to observe My Teaching.  Willingness to LIVE My Teaching.  Willingness to let Me enter your room.  Willingness  to be:  I in you, you in Me.

So, let us measure your progress in Me in the stillness of your heart.  Here is where Truth confronts your reality.  Here is where there is always room for improvement, perfection.....because I am God, and you are not.  The plain fact is, that God stands before you.  Inside each and every one of you is the need to be improved.  Trust Me:  this process will proceed until your death.  And for some, it will continue in Purgatory.

Now is the time to willingly rebuild YOUR temple.  I am affording you every Grace to achieve the task.  Receive Me as I would come to you.  Judge Me not.  But be willing to receive Me, and to come to truly know Me.  Be kind to one another.  Be in Charity.....Love.  For some, rebuilding is a perilous task.  For others, a welcomed change.  For ALL, it is a matter of Life or death of spirit.

Let My Hand move gently in your being.  My Hand would stir your spirit into flames in My Own Heart.  I build up, I do not tear down.  I create anew.  Yes, sometimes on the ruins of who you are, but only by your holy permission.  "Holy," I say, because that is the sacred trust between us:  your will, My Gift to you, which I shall NEVER rescind!  Never!

Come, little one.  Let us meet in your heart.  In private.....One-on-one.  You and I. It shall be accomplished, if you will.  And if YOU will, then so shall I, and the Will of My Father shall be done.

Amen.  In Love.  Amen.  In Patient Endurance.   Amen.  Now.....if you will.  Later.....I shall wait.  But now would be so very pleasing to My Heart.  Amen.    †

(Haggai 1:1-8; Ps. 149:1-6, 9; Lk. 9:7-9)

With Love, in the Two Hearts,
His Sarah