Surrender your Surrender

#233  Tues. Feb. 4/14, 10:25am. St. Theresa’s before the Blessed Sacrament

I want to be “Precious Jesus” to so many of you.

Something so precious that you never want to give up.

Put Me on a list of all things and people you hold dear.  Which of these will you give up before you say you will give Me up.

That is, which of these is more precious to you than I am?

Sometimes it is a tough question because I am not asking you to give up anything. Right?

So it is easy to tell Me how precious I am to you.  You have yet been asked to show Me how really precious I am to you in your life. 

You really don’t even want Me to ask you that question, do you?

You are most content to prayerfully proclaim it to Me, but if your back was against the wall what would you not want to give up?

What stands between you and Me?

When I ask you to start listing what it is that stands between us, there is a lot you can list.

But I up it a notch and ask what you are willing to give up, hand over --- the decision becomes harder.

So the prayer “I surrender myself to you, take care of everything” still has its limits doesn’t it.

I see you smiling because even though you really want to surrender yourself to Me – your good intentions to do this, there is still so much of you that you will have a hard time surrendering.

And I understand!  Yes I do.

But please do not let that stop you from saying the surrender prayer.

Ask Me for the Grace, when  you say that prayer, to bring to your attention what is separating us especially on this day.

You know, you can’t say this surrender prayer without My Help.  Surrender your surrender prayer to Me.

Make it a more Precious Prayer by surrendering it to Me.

Ask Me to help you pray this prayer not from memory, but from the very depth of your soul.

Ask Me to help you make this a more powerful prayer in your journey with Me.

Pray it from the center of My Sacred Heart with the Immaculate Heart of Mary alongside us in this adventure.

What stands between you and Me when you volunteer to surrender is not just material things but more importantly spiritual things.

We can list the material things much easier than we can list the more soul things.

So come aside.  Sit with Me and ask Me to show you the things in your soul that you find hard to surrender, and maybe even those things in your soul that you do not feel are even there and in need of surrendering.

What a new slant on the surrender prayer!

Thank you for adoring and listening to My Words for the World.  Go with a joyful attitude.  Jesus loves you.