Suffering Surrender

#374  April, 19/15, 12:55 a.m. – at home in bedside book

I have more to share with My People.

Quiet your hearts.  Settle into My Most Sacred Heart.  Feel the Goodness I want to instill in you.

How do you want to feel?

Most people would say --- healthy, happy, joyful, un-suffering.

These are what you can find in My Most Sacred Heart.

The un-suffering you are seeking is not a lack of suffering, but rather understanding the richness of suffering.

Of course we do not want to suffer because so often it appears to be in vain.

Yet no suffering offered to Me is ever in vain.

It is usually in vain when it interferes with our plans, however it makes good sense when you see My Hand on it for a Higher Purpose.

It is like giving your life up for another.  Are you willing to endure suffering – i.e. give up your good healthy life – to save another’s soul?

We look at suffering as an interference in our life’s plan.  How dare it step in and take over when you were doing quite, quite well without it.

It almost seems like it is interfering with your life.

You did not plan to suffer at this stage of your life, so it is more a bother than a means of saving other souls.

It really does interfere with our plans.  Do we ask Jesus, when we are suffering, if this is part of His Plan for you?

We perhaps don’t even think to speak with Jesus at all except perhaps to cease the suffering which is now upon us and which is interfering with our life’s plan.

We don’t see the point in suffering because we had all sorts of things planned that we were going to do, and some of them we thought God would think were pretty worthwhile.

Have I forgotten to surrender my control over me and my day to the Lord?

I surrender myself but does that include controlling my suffering too?

So, when I suffer during the day will I willingly and hastily surrender it to the Lord or am I only willing to surrender when all is going well?

Are you willing to give up your life for another?

You had never thought of it in this context before --- surrendering your suffering to save souls.

Now, you know I, Jesus, am the only Saviour, but your ‘suffering surrender’ shows Me you are most willing to give up your planned life for the sake of another.

Did I not do the same for you?

You can either take on suffering as a horrible burden and a dark interference in your life, or you can make of it a thing of beauty, a prized pearl.

Do not run around looking for suffering, rather when it does arrive at your doorstep, realize the many Graces and Blessings it brings with it – for you and for others.

Now to sleep.  Thank you for listening to My Words of Encouragement and Acceptance.

From now on do not look at suffering as an interference in you life’s plan, but rather as an onslaught of Graces and Blessings that you don’t want to miss out on.

These are Graces and Blessings needed by each soul to grow closer to Me.

Although the suffering might deplete you bodily, it will strengthen you spiritually.  What a blessing in disguise suffering is.

O Lord, help me to surrender all of me to you --- my plans, my thoughts, my actions. Do not, through your Generous Graces, allow suffering to distract me from surrendering.