#236 Thursday, Feb. 13/14, 3:45pm, St. Theresa’s, before the Blessed Sacrament
I have come to Love My People. I hold none of My Love back from anyone.
Come and bathe in this Love.
Do not hesitate to join Me in the mission of making Me known to the World.
In the very smallest of ways you can do this. Yet, if I call you to do it in a big way, then you will.
Do not ever think that a small way of serving Me gets less credit than a large way.
We think the bigger the deed the more worthwhile we are in Your Eyes, Lord.
How very False.
If I ask you to do something and it seems to you to be small and insignificant why will you not do it?
Do you think that I only work and reach out to the world in Gigantic Ways?
Not much would happen then if we all waited to do the gigantic things.
Whatever I ask you to do, please do it because it is the most important thing for you to do.
Do not measure it against what I have called others to do.
Now many of you will have to admit that you want to be seen and known to do mighty important things. Again I do not assign you to serve Me for your own self-gratification.
Absolutely NOT.
So whatever I ask you to do ‘in love’ then that is a most important thing for you to do.
It is like wanting to always pick the biggest berry. We feel the smallest one is quite insignificant. Yet the smallest one shows you how big a big one is!
Do not look to cast a long shadow while you are here on earth serving Me.
Be most satisfied to be very insignificant to others. You are never insignificant to Me.
Look to Me and allow Me to hand you the tiniest tasks.
Like you don’t have to be the well-known surgeon who saves lives. You can be the one mopping up the room after surgery; the person who changes the lights; the person who makes the surgical clothing; the tube that serves to help you breath.
Understand that no role is insignificant if it has been Created to serve Me.
Open your heart to small tasks --- and sometimes these are the tasks that give us lots of Graces. Like cleaning up the kitchen when you would rather be sitting out back with a good book.
You can almost feel the growl forming in your throat when you have to do tasks you don‘t really feel like doing.
Rather murmur a thank you that God has given you the Grace to realize that this is not a thankless task. He thanks you for doing it with Love rather than a growl.
Did you clean the kitchen today with Love or with frustration?
Love allows Grace to flow to you to strengthen your soul.
Frustration short circuits the flow of Love and thus your soul is not strengthened.
These may seem like silly examples, but if you do not grasp these simple basic examples how will you grasp anything else I tell you about you and how I want you to serve Me.
We all want our name ‘in lights’ with people marvelling at us and at our wondrous deeds.
Wondrous Deeds in whose eyes?
You see we want to please our ‘self’ with the approval of others.
We fail to realize that our smallest service for the Lord, done with Love, rings the Wondrous Bell throughout eternity.
It always comes down to ‘who are you trying to serve?’ Me or you?
If we ache for acclaim, then you are definitely serving you.
If you ache to serve Me, you definitely will not be acclaimed.
Now most certainly there are those who you can name who have served Me and are ‘acclaimed’ by the World.
But they did not need this acclamation to serve Me, to continue to serve Me.
They did not, do not do it to be acclaimed and thus satisfy their ‘self.’
The acclamation of the World was not their goal. So they do not consider it acclamation.
When you are called to serve, what is your goal -- so that folks will leap up and acclaim you for all the good you have done and are doing, or was the prime intent to serve only Me?
You cannot have 2 Masters.
So sincerely ask yourself --- what is my goal? “Lord help me to seek to do Your Will.” That is your goal.
You can either do My Will --- a call to love unconditionally, OR you can desire and direct your being to doing your will.
One is endeavoring to relinquish all of your free will to Me; the other is to ignore Me and face life on your own, under your control, or what you perceive to be your will, your control.
Do you see the strength and courage it takes to relinquish your free will to My Will.
It takes a sincere focus for you to determine that you are better off with Jesus walking with you, than you walking with you.
In one case there are 2 of us facing the World; in the other there is you against the World.
So don’t hesitate to take on the smallest most insignificant tasks – not as a martyr, but seeking to do My Will in the smallest of things --- there I am as much as in the Gigantic of things.
Come, meet with Me in the smallest of small tasks.
Now yes we can do small tasks, but please start to do them with a loving focus. “I want to meet you Jesus in the smallest of small tasks.”
I am there, I am waiting and you will be astonished that the Fullness of Me is in the tiniest of tasks.
Each time you do a tiny task, smile, because you now know that you have met with Me and no one else need ever know!!!
