#247 Friday, March 14, 2014, 6:40a.m. at home (small sins & big hurts)
My People listen to My Voice.
I Love you. I Cherish you. I wish to free you so that you can live life to the fullest with no regrets.
Did you stop to listen to the sounds today?
How can snow fall from such great heights and not make a sound?
How can it fall on people and things and cause no damage?
And yet a pile of snow can cause damage.
Do you see how your small sins can fall all around you and not seem to cause damage to your soul?
They are almost gentle aren’t they? Well that one did not hurt me or another, and neither
did that one or that one.
So we figure small sins aren’t really bad and oh because of my human nature I am bound to sin so as long as they are small what consequences do they have?
So you see right away you have taken on the role of judge.
You judge which sins are bad and which are not that bad.
How can you judge the worth of your soul?
You did not install your immortal soul.
You did not liken it to Mine.
You did not plan for it to be immortal and take you into Eternity,
So how do you know what will harm its spiritual nature?
Dare you ask Me if such and such has harmed your soul?
No. because you will decide what is harmful or not for your soul based on your limited human knowledge and spirituality.
I beg you do not trust yourself to examine your soul. Come daily and bring your precious soul into My Holy Presence and let Me show you the things you have done that have damaged and hurt your soul.
This is NOT a blame game.
Far from it.
But you already know that any hurt that comes to your soul has not originated from Me.
No one else can hurt your soul. Some can hurt you physically and psychologically but cannot damage your soul.
Yes, you may feel that they have messed with your soul. But they can’t instil bitterness, hatred, anger. That we do to ourselves.
And many, many times these emotions may be justified according to the pain inflicted on you.
How else can you react?
But, I tell you, you cannot live in anger, hatred, despair. No, No, No.
These emotions may have been your defence against the abuse you have suffered. They are natural human reactions.
But you are not just human.
You have a divine spiritual nature that is far stronger than your human nature.
And yes it is true that you may not have been aware of this spiritual side of you. But it is never too late to be made aware of it, is it.
You now know Me and how much I Love you.
Again you can argue that if I Loved you why did you suffer such abuse?
No answer I give you will suffice.
But now I invite you to ‘taste’ My Love.
To open your hardened heart and let Me come in and enlighten your world that has been very dark for so many years.
Just simply ask Me. “Lord, open my hurt heart so I can let you dwell there now.”
Your heart was not meant to be hardened – no, no, no.
It was meant to sustain you, nourish you, not just your body, but the whole of you.
It may not be easy to ask Me to come in but would you rather live feeling miserable the rest of your life?
I bet the answer is No.
You want to feel the real person whom I Created.
You want to truly love the real person I Created.
You want to be in love with the One who Created you.
At first you may not want to forgive those who hurt you and that is a natural reaction. I accept those feelings.
However, I tell you, take the first step.
And that is just ask Me to open your hurt hardened heart.
See it is very easy. I don’t even ask you to get out of bed to do it.
You can do it in the midst of a sunrise, when you are eating lunch with friends, when you are sleepy, or angry, or fed up, or laughing.
You do not have to be in a serious prayer mode or kneeling in ashes. You can ask Me at any time.
So that is your first step and it takes but only a few seconds of your time. “Lord please open my hurt heart. I need You to open my hurt heart.”
The sky will not fall, or the sun spin in the sky. People will not be astonished at the change in you because it will not be perceivable, at first --- maybe not even to you.
The second step is that you have to trust that I will open your hurt heart. “Lord, I trust that you will open my hurt heart.”
How long did it take you to put forward that plea to Me? Barely seconds. So you have not wasted your time. Heh, it has not even interfered with your plans.
You can even make it a little sing-song that you can sing in your head. “Lord, I trust you will open my hurt heart.”
Or you can say it in a dark mood.
It does not matter. It is like you are awakening your soul to the fact that there is a higher power in your life “Lord” and that your heart trusts in this Person to help you.
Look how you trust that others will help you carry heavy loads, or shovel the snow for you, or listen to your happy and sad times.
So accept that I, your Lord, can help you so much more than any other being.
So you say “But Lord I don’t even know You or about You.” But I assure you that you do. Have confidence that this knowledge has been instilled in you since conception.
If you have to, take a chance on Me. What is there to lose? You haven’t been able on your own to fix all your hurts.
Tell Me – I don’t mind – “Heh Lord you are my last resort.”
I want you to be so, so honest with Me because I will be so, so honest with you.
It is the dishonesty in our past, that has made us so, so hurt and bitter.
But you have honesty imbedded in you. Take My Word for this.
Do not hesitate to be honest with Me from the get-go. I do not get cross with your honesty. I will not make light of your honesty.
I will not fluff over your hurts and those who hurt you. I will listen to your hurt heart.
Get it out. Lay it all before Me -- yell, rant, go on and on, but just be sure that you are directing it all to Me.
You can do it while lying in bed, walking in the park, sitting at your desk.
No One, no One else can relieve your heart from all this hurt.
Talk to those in AA. They will tell you that all come to the same conclusion “God help me because I cannot help myself.”
Now there is full, full honesty!
“ I cannot help myself.”
What a powerful prayer. Does it sound something like “I need God.”
These 2 prayers go together, eh?
“I cannot help myself. God I need you.”
“I cannot open my own heart to receive the help I need and want – God I need you.”
What a releasing prayer. You don’t have to try anymore to ‘fix’ yourself. There is a higher power, God Almighty, who is there to help you.
My Love takes on this job with great joy and delight.
Come to ME all you who are hurt and heavy burdened.
I want to help you. I desire to help you. I Love to help you.
I cannot open your heart to revenge.
I can open your heart to love. Love that is far more nourishing and life-giving and freeing than revenge.
Revenge is never satiated, never satisfied.
Love, on the other hand, moves you beyond wanting satisfaction to wanting a relationship with Me and not with your hurt you.
Not that you do not want a healthy relationship with yourself. But you know that you can’t have a healthy relationship with a hurting you.
It is not possible. It only breeds more hurt. It does not infuse Love.
So now go in Peace.
What a find! Just a few simple prayers to start you on your healing journey from hurt to hope.
I am with you always on this journey so do not hesitate to bring anything, anything to Me. Let’s get personal. I will listen to you, and you can listen to Me.
We will laugh, cry, sigh, be in awe together.
You are not alone.
I want you with Me and I can help heal your hurting past if that is what you are seeking.
Heh, you have nothing to lose. Take a chance on Me.
Just start with those simple prayers
“Lord, open my hurt heart.’
“Lord, I trust you will open my hurt heart.”
“I cannot help myself. God I need you.”
This most certainly will be a day of rejoicing for your hurt heart.
Mark it on the calendar. Your heart is reborn to what it was Created to be.
Alleluia. Praise God.
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