Title:  "I have come of My Own Free Will, and you must come to Me by YOUR own free will."

(Notebook 55, pp. 44--48)

Live  †  Jesus

First Friday, September 3, 1999

Dear Jesus and Holy Mother,

[Jesus speaks.....]
How truly perfect is My Creation, before the tampering by man.  How orderly is My Universe before the entering of wrong-willed choices by man.  How Perfect is My Universe, My Creation, all.  How perfect was man before the fall!  And in one moment of wrong-willed choice, error entered the world, and division upon which the evil one feeds.  The enemy prowls to darken My Perfection.  He waits for moments of your confusion that he might more tarnish all the abilities you have.  But, O man, the first decision is YOURS.  It is YOU who decides to bathe in the murky waters of sin rather than the Glorious Waters of Forgiveness.  O child!  When you mix My Glory with murk, you still need purification!  All which is murky must go!  NO shadow.  NO darkness.  ALL of it must go.  By your free-willed choice.  I PRAY for you to be one in Me.  I have given My LIFE for you, that you be one in Me!  For, how else can you enter the Kingdom of God?

There is a Newness, a Renewness in your God.  I am the Reflection of the Father.  Come to Me, come to God.  Breathe My Spirit.  O man, you shall never understand now, from your position in the world, the Magnitude, the Glory of My Love for you.  Though you tremble at the sight of My Crucifixion, you cannot fully know that even the moment of My BIRTH is the greatest Sacrifice for you.  For I have come to make you new, REGARDLESS of your stain, your separation from Me!  I and the Father are One and we send forth the Holy Spirit to dwell in you, that you might come to dwell in Us.

Now I tell you this:  I have come of My Own Free Will, and you must come to Me by YOUR own free will.  All which you need has been given to you.  Baptism is your entry:  Place of New Birth, New Life, New Garment.  Grace is your New Wine.  Life in Me is Life in My Church.  If you are a piece of cloth sewn elsewhere:  Come, return, BE in Me anew!  I AM Renewal!  It is in ME!  *I* am the Way and the Truth and the Life, afterall.  There is NO way to the Father but by Me!  And truly NO ONE comes to Me but to him whom the Father has revealed Me.  And yet.....I am a God of Mercy!  NO ONE is refused My Mercy!  I am beyond your understanding.  I am beyond your comprehension!  I am God.  You are not.  DO believe!

And so, little ones who are flesh of My Flesh, bone of My Bone, born anew in My Spirit:  Let us proceed.  Let us grow.  Let us renew you, wash you anew in the Waters of Baptism which have been reserved for you.  Be constantly clean in Me through your Reconciliation to Me.   Receive My Meal:  My Flesh, My Blood where I renew you, rejuvenate you, grow you ever closer to Me.  BE in the Life of My Church through the Mass, through the Sacraments!  Be in Me that when they look, they shall find Me in you.  When you look, may you find Me in them.  One Body.  One Flesh.  One Blood, the Cup of Salvation.  Oneness:  that is "how I look."  I am Oneness.  And as division remains, as separation remains, you do not yet look like Me; for we are not truly one.....not if there is division in My Body.  But HOPE!  I am HOPE!  And LOVE!  I am LOVE!  And BELIEVE, for I am the Source of Faith!

Truly lambs, be in Me as I am in thee.  We must start somewhere.  Let YOU be the new wineskin for New Life.  Say "yes," will you?  I long for your completeness in Me.  I long for YOU.  Amen.    †

(Col. 1:15-20; Ps. 100:1-5; Lk. 5:33-39)

With Love, in the Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
His Sarah