Surrender!!

#353   Feb. 20/15, 9:55am, St. Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament

O how I Love My People.

Let Me cry it from the highest mountain top.  Let Me cry it from the Cross.  I died because I Love you.  Not if and when you are good, or if and when you are obedient, but always.  No circumstance in your life stops Me from Loving you. 

You can turn as far away as possible and yet you cannot stop Me from Loving you.  I don’t care what you have done to avoid My Love, I still fully and completely Love you.

Perhaps you think you have a really good plan that will upset Me so much that I will stop Loving you.  The devil will lead you to thinking that you can out foil My Love.  But rest assured, he is wrong and has always been wrong and furthermore he will continue to tempt you because he HATES the fact that I Love you unconditionally.

He does not, cannot treasure your soul as I do.

What is so frustrating to him is that he did not create you and thus does not have the miracle hold on you as I do.

Do you see how powerless he is?  He cannot create.  He may think he creates Chaos but even I am the Ruler in times of Chaos.

Do not let him snare you into believing in his power.  It is very limited.

You cannot ask him to create in you a new and more loving heart each day because he does not know Love. He is not the Maker of Love.  He may try to mislead you into thinking that what he offers is for your own good, but no good comes from any association with him.

Come to Me, sit with Me.  Do I ask you to do things that will damage your soul?   I alone seek ALL-Good for you.  Now, it may not be what you like or prefer but it is all for your own good.

Beware how the devil sneaks in.  He will make you feel sorry for yourself;  he will offer you power that never satisfies.

He wants your soul to strive for things for which it was not created!    

You were Created in harmony with your Creator.

We break the harmony when we step away to wield our own power.  We want to be famous, powerful.  We are greedy, cunning, thoughtless, self-centered.

If we are self-centered, we most certainly are not acting in harmony with God’s plan for each one of us.

“I want it done my way.”  That is not a phrase we use when we are in harmony with God because when we are in harmony with God we will have the knowledge and understanding that His Way is the only right and true way.

“I want it my way,”  excludes God from the planning process.

So think hard on this.  What have you planned to do today?  What if these plans change slightly or drastically?  Will you be ok with this or react in a fury of discontent and meanness?

If you have surrendered all of you to Me this day, no matter what happens you will be most content.

Now for someone who says “I want it done my way” what kind of reaction do you think they will have if things do not go their way?

It will not be contentment for sure.

So, that is how you can evaluate whether your day was done under God’s guidance or your own planning.

You will soon note that if it is done under God’s guidance there will be more contentment than discontentment.

Vice versa, if the plans for your day were done in little consultation with God, you will most definitely be much less content.

We sometimes think that if we don’t plan things, things won’t get done.  Do you hear the devil’s voice whispering this to you in your ear?

I tell you, surrender all to Me and you will accomplish more, much more than you could imagine.

Sometimes we think surrendering ourselves and our plans will make us a doormat for others. NO, NO, NO.

When you truly surrender to Me, you will Love deeper and deeper and not take on the martyr role of being a doormat!

If you feel that way then you are still living in your plans for your day, and not living in Mine.

When you have to let go of your plans for another’s plans you feel put down and not appreciated.  Right???

But when you surrender to Me you have divested yourself of your plans, so no one can interrupt or change your plans BECAUSE YOU HAVE NONE.

You have given all of you over to the ALL of Me, so your tender emotions don’t, can’t get trod on when you are asked by others to do this or that.

Catch yourself.  If you say well I wasn’t planning to do that, note you must not have surrendered all of you, all of your day to Me!

It is a good measuring tool, isn’t it.

“I will do Your Will, Lord.”

Can you see how surrendering yourself and your day can free up your soul?  It doesn’t have to get tangled up in feeling sorry for itself when plans change.  They were not your plans anyway and so you are most willing to follow the Lord’s Will daily.  What a great relief for your soul.

Thank God for taking away your planning process.

It takes more Grace to surrender yourself than to plan your own day. Yet the first allows so much more Grace to flow in and out of your life.

When we are in charge, our hearts are not always open to the Lord’s Graces.  When we are not in charge our hearts are eagerly awaiting His Graces that we need to do His Will.