Pulling on your pride together

#258   Easter Monday, April 21/14, 9:45 am, St. Theresa’s chapel before the Blessed Sacrament  

I rejoice in My People.  Let nothing they do, in disregard to Me, ever turn you away from loving them. 

We want to judge those who we think are not as faithful to the Lord.

Not so.   Lest your judgment brings you to a far more serious sin than what you think they have committed.

You see, I want you to commit ‘you’ to Me.  I do not ask you to commit ‘another’ to Me.

You most definitely can bring your soul and their soul into My Sacred Heart, however you are not to make their commitment to Me.

It is hard enough as you know for you to stay committed to Me.  Right?  In all things, in all ways.

You  may have more fervor at one moment than at another moment. 

So do not think you are perfect and have been called to make a commitment for another.

Sure, you are to draw all people to Me, but the commitment to come to Me has to come from the individual. 

You see, we think our thoughts, words and actions will surely convince their hearts. But no.  What did I say? They will know us by our Love.  They will come to know Me through your unconditional love. 

And that is hard at times because we think our words of direction, of reprimand will convince them to follow Me.

Your fervor for their souls sometimes overflows into what may appear as conditional love.  So, sometimes what we can’t put into words (these words may convey unconditional  love – we most surely can take our words and place them in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so He can burn off the ‘me’ in them and leave behind just the Unconditional Love.

Realize, please realize that your concern for their souls has to be brought to Me.  DO NOT TRY to fix it through what you feel will work.

You have seen it, you have done it and then been told by Me to apologize because your words do not hold any weight when said with anger as the base.  And do not try to tell Me that you are not angry.  Remember I see your heart.  

So you think your words are instructive, yet you know they come from your heart which is upset with the situation and thinks by your words you can make it better.

Do you see how I want you to connect to Me?   And how often you, who think you are not doing too badly with connecting with Me, still want to dance off on your own to make the situation, in your eyes, better.

What foolishness eh?  Because you no sooner let it slip from your lips and you know it was not right.

Talk about hurting the bent reed.

How can we speak to a tender soul using our words and think that we do not hurt this tender soul? 

I tell you, I continue to tell all of you, that any and every concern you have you bring to Me for healing.  I will not hurt a tender soul.

Do not strive to fix the situation with your own words.  Bring your concerns to Me and tell Me the ache in your heart and then generously leave it with Me.

You see you want Me to be generous, yet you can be generous too.  You can continue to give more of you to Me.   You have so much of you to give Me and anxiously receive and embrace each new bit of you that generously turn over to Me.

You just revealed to Me, Margo, that your heart feels very down because you used your words to try to fix a situation rather than racing with your concerns into My Sacred Heart.

Now, I caution you that if you are most sorry for this misjudgment, tha I have not condemned your heart to feeling down.  That is the devil trying to instruct you that you did something wrong and should feel despair in your heart.

NO, NO, NO.  He is so false in his whisperings.

You expressed your sorrow by apologizing to the person most sincerely as I nudged you to do.

But now the devil will play on your pride.  Yes hard to believe eh?  He wants you to feel sorry for yourself that you did this and how others may now think about you.

Remember all of you reading these Words of Mine, that they apply to you also.  I do not want you to think because I am showing these insights to Margo that they do not also apply to you.  So just substitute her for you!

The devil will want your heart to wallow in its own unworthiness.  Do you see how this keeps you from praising, adoring and thanking Me? 

He will make you feel very bad about your choices and then feel sorry for yourself – your tender soul. 

But not to the betterment of your soul, but to the fact that you will abandon your tender hurt soul instead of taking it quickly into My Sacred Heart and re-nourishing it. 

He never invites you to take refuge in his heart.  He wants you to feel as abandoned and lonely as he does.

So, right this minute, take your heart and soul, each one of you, and bring it joyfully into My Most Sacred Heart.  Bring it knowing it is the only safe place of refuge and refueling.

Remember it is pride that keeps you feeling down.  I know many  of you would not have thought of it as pride, but I assure you it is.  You feel down because you want to protect the ‘you’ image you have designed for the world to see.

You do not want to lose face; you want to be loved by all.

Come to Me all you who are heavy burdened.

Do you see your burden?  Do you see that pride can be a most heavy burden?  That is why I ask you to give ALL of you to Me.  That will extinguish your pride if you give all of you to Me.

So what a great adventure --- to hasten, or go slowly in most cases, to give your pride over to Me.

What great insight and clarity this will allow to enter and take rest in your soul.

The more we entertain our pride, the less clarity of body, mind and soul we will have.

See your pride is a huge rock that you tie a rope securely around and endeavor to drag your pride into My Sacred Heart.

It will not be pulled easily.  It is something you may have to work hard to move.   Sound silly?

But you can see the scene can’t you.  You tugging away and your pride getting caught in holes, on other rocks, in the mud, etc.

Interesting eh?  It goes to give you a visual of how hard it is to move!

Some days you may not have the strength to move it.  Some days it may seem like an impossible task, so we let go of the rope and give up.  Some days it seems as easy as pie. 

Have you asked Me to help you with this boulder?

Or do you want to show Me how sorry you are for being proud by endeavoring to drag it to Me on your own.

Is there a bit of pride here?   Of course it is and you smile that I have revealed what you thought of as penance is really pride.

Your true penance will be to seek Me out and ask most sincerely for My Help and be most willing to let Me help you.

Suffocate your pride in the Fire of My Eternal Love.

And don’t think that I am not willing time and time again, as you discover more bits of pride to ask Me to help you.

This brings us closer together  each time. Me helping you drag the pride into the Fire of My Love and you walking right along with Me --- both of our hands less chaffed because we are helping each other.

You did not realize that by coming to Me and asking Me to help you with your pride that you are helping Me.  You are allowing more of Me to be present to you by your willingness to come to Me for help.

I can’t help if your heart does not want My Help.

So get busy and tie a secure rope around your pride, then hasten to Me and ask Me to help you drag your pride into the healing power of My Most Sacred Heart.

A caution:  I will only progress as fast as you want  to.  i.e. if you take your hands off the rope, so you can make use of your pride I will patiently wait for you to seek Me again and I will rejoin you in pulling on your pride. 

What a great Easter Monday revelation, eh?

Me and you pulling on your pride together.

Perhaps someone could paint this picture.

I leave you now with the reassurance that I am always available to help you extinguish your pride in My Most Sacred Heart.

I love each of you.  I love your tender souls.  I am the Risen Lord.  I know Mine and Mine know Me.

Go in the Joy of My Resurrection.