May 22, 2012

          “What is your life?  What does it consist of?  Moments of time march one by one until old age comes which then stops at the door of death.  What will you be holding in your arms as you stand waiting at death’s door? 

          Will your hands be perfumed with the fragrance of good works?  Will your mind be pure, separated from worldly desires?  Will your heart be dilated with love for the God you will be meeting face to face? 

          How many souls will be fearful and trembling on that day?  What will they say in their defense?  Those that have trodden on the poor, sinned willfully, despised God’s commandments, ill-treated their neighbor – how will they encounter God with the boldness backed by a life of holiness?

          God is a just judge.  He has placed within man’s hearts His laws.  There will be no excuse on that day.  Man’s soul will accuse him.  He will not need to hear words of judgment. 

          To stay in contact with heaven every day of your life is the greatest secret of the holy boldness you will need on that fateful day of reckoning.  God gives man every chance possible to follow the inner yearning for holiness that He has so carefully placed in the inner sanctuary of man’s being.  There will be no excuses on the day of judgment.

          “Behold, I show you a mystery.  We shall not all sleep but shall be changed, in the twinkling of an eye.”  This judgment will be quick and powerful.  In the state you arrive at death’s door – this is the measuring stick of justice before God’s holiness.

          Look up to Me.  Ask Me to show you the state of your soul now so that what is evil may be turned into good before that final day where there will be no remedy.  I offer you life and death, children.  “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.”

Jesus,

Trial Judge

May 21, 2012

          “Ask your Father in heaven for grace.  Grace to love Him.  Grace to obey Him.  Grace to listen to His voice in your heart.  You are a beggar asking for alms from a rich king.  You have to ask for things you do not have.  Are you trying to acquire things you do not possess?  You cannot make things happen on your own if you do not possess the means.

          You desire holiness and purity.  You have to ask God for these gifts.  You cannot manufacture them by your own striving.  God must grant you the grace to be virtuous and strong in His power.  Do you yet realize that all comes from Him?

          You flounder spiritually and then chastise yourself vigorously, as though you could keep yourself standing by your own willpower.  This is a great secret to spiritual growth.  Look to God for everything!  He holds each of your breaths in His power.  He is able to grant you all spiritual gifts and graces if you just ask to receive.

          Stop trying to reach spiritual maturity on your own.  You need the Holy Spirit’s strength.  Remember, beggars are poor.  They ask for what they need.  They do not try to create goods from nothing.  They require a benefactor.  You also need to supply your goods from God.  Do not rely on yourself anymore.  You have a rich Father in heaven just waiting to abandon Himself to your requests.  He is a good God bearing beautiful gifts.  So few souls empty His hands.

          “God, grant me the gift of Your holy presence.”  This prayer flies to His heart speedily.  He seeks a welcoming heart.  It is easy to make God happy.  Tell Him how much you love Him and want to dwell in His presence eternally.  This is His desire for you.”

Jesus,

God’s Voice of Love

May 21, 2011

          “I will speak freely to those who will listen.  The atmosphere is full of My words.  So few hear them because they have drowned them out with noise.  I speak in the rustle of the treetops.  The clouds sing forth My praises in silent wonder.  My animals go forth daily, mute and obedient to their nature.  If you listen to the stillness, you hear another world waiting to be discovered.  “Be still and know that I am God.”

          A quiet heart learns how to love heaven.  A quiet spirit is happy and content with all things.  “A meek and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of great price.”

          Seek and search urgently for the peaceful quiet solaces I have prepared for you, those silent moments when I can speak softly to your heart.  These, My quiet children, shall dwell eternally with Me in peace. 

          I surround Myself with quiet souls.  I am not in the earthquake or the great winds.  I abide with the meek, the lowly, and the quiet children, those that have silenced themselves in humble obedience and wisdom.

          Mary “pondered all these things in her heart.”  I dwelt as King in her heart.  She conversed with Me in our silent language, unknown to the world.  The masters of the spiritual life, those that have earned heaven’s doctorate, are the meek and quiet children that have weaned themselves from the ways of the world.  They enter heaven’s inner sanctuary, where all is so quiet and still that they can hear God’s very breath.

          Follow Me, My quiet lambs, into the peaceful hills of lovely stillness, My Father’s eternal abode.  We shall quietly rule and reign with Him forever, the children of peace, the sons of the eternally quiet God.

          God abides in the stillness.  Go to meet Him there.  He waits for you there.  He will teach you the language of silence, the most powerful language known to man.”

Holy Spirit,

Whisperer of God

May 19, 2011

          “You have misunderstood your mission in My great plan.  You have been fulfilling your mission, while constantly waiting for your mission to be given to you.  There is no mission oracle to go forth as a warrior in battle.  Your mission is the daily endurance of the human condition, yours and others.  I have told you that I am not a God of the extravagant and showy displays of My power.  I reveal Myself in whatever is meek, lowly, and hidden.  Most of the time I am so ‘human’ in My works that I go completely unnoticed.

          The angels sigh in wonder as they see men miss My beautiful acts of goodness and divine mercy to the sons of men.  Men walk by, oblivious to My truly spectacular graces; the grace of the present moment, the gift of your life breath, the seeing eye, the colorful landscape.  Man’s eye is fixed on whatever is beyond the next bend in the road, always seeking new adventures and new experiences.

          I dwell in the orderly life of a faithful soul.  Fidelity, temperance, meekness, tranquility, and joy mark My presence.  I am quiet and content, not striving to be noticed or acclaimed.  I am the invisible helping hand, making all run smoothly behind the scenes, prodding My children on in the ways of righteousness.

          I am the smile of a baby, the song of the bird, the wonder of a rainbow.  I lose Myself in the beauty of creation only to be found by those that seek Me fervently and eagerly.  They catch My little subtleties and exclaim in child-like praise, “It is the Lord.”

          These are the children of My inner circle, those that play in the throne room, just desiring to be near Me.  They know My gentleness and My smile of satisfaction.  They sense My nearness and rest on My heart.

          It is not hard to approach Me.  My door is open to all My children.  I glimpse at the doorway constantly, hoping one of My wayward ones will remember Me and choose to come home to Me.

          I am a Father in love with My children.  Need I say more?”

God,

The Heart of a Father

May 18, 2012

          “The fruition of a holy soul in the life of grace is a sight to behold!  God’s grace flows over the soul with a holy and fragrant perfume, enlightening all who come within its environs.  The Holy Spirit infuses God’s holy wisdom into the crevices of the inner man, regenerating what the curse of sin has destroyed.

          The features of a man’s face change once he has experienced the abiding presence of God.  His character remains forever exalted by so lofty a sight.  Rivulets of blessings, the rivers of living water produced by the Holy Spirit, pour forth from his spirit, nourishing and strengthening the earth’s wanderers.  Souls are attracted to God’s holy light emanating from their countenance.  There is a perfumed presence of God’s nearness that touches the heart.

          Contemplative souls bring God to earth.  He radiates His features, imprinting them on the faces of His beloved waiting children.  These lights of glory “dart like sparks through stubble” among the men of earth, creating portholes of heavenly light to any seekers.  My children of light bring My smile to earth.  They allow Me to move within them, to touch souls with their human bodies.  And I do My miracle work … My presence alone cures all ills.

          Only those emptied of themselves can be inhabited by another.  I long to live My life in you, children, in this evil and degenerate generation.  They need My presence so desperately.

          Can I save them through you?  Will you be My obedient servant, existing solely for the praise of My glory?  I will live in you, if you will only allow it.”

Jesus,

Body Seeker

May 18, 2011

          “My dear friends know My heart.  They are attuned to My wishes for them; thoughts of goodwill, peace, love, and jovial familiarity.  I am not a God in far off places.  I reside within the countless souls I have created, designing a unique masterpiece of creative love, each soul formed to show forth My glory.

          When I see these beautiful artifacts of My love drowning in the sea of perdition, I send My life rafts of mercy, warning sirens in the night, pleas of merciful love to rescue them from the raging waters.  My beacons of light spread far and wide throughout the shorelines, havens of hope for the drowning.  Yet souls resist divine mercy and grace.  Men ignore My watchful pleas to return to the haven of rest, My fatherly heart.

          I have created a beautiful world for My children to grow in.  I have provided everything essential for them to flourish and grow into stately oaks of virtue.  Yet man is slowly digressing into the mentality of a brute animal, reveling in sinfulness and deception.  How grieved I am over man’s rebellion and lack of spiritual interest!

          Pray earnestly for the masses who are being driven over the cliff of perdition to fall into endless desolation.  They are being herded like sheep into the eternal abyss by the enemy of their souls.  They serve this enemy blindly, not understanding his supreme hatred for them.

          The Good Shepherd has been driven away by hateful scorn and rejection.  I search longingly for My erring sheep to return to their inheritance, but daily they run further from truth.  Those sheep that hear My voice and follow Me very closely moan with me for the loss of so many sheep.  They comfort My heart, wounded by the scorn of My beloved children.  We pray together for the return of the flock.  We pray for the Spirit of God to sweep through the land as a mighty force to open the eyes of the blind, erring sheep.

          See us on the mountains calling out lovingly together to the stragglers.  The end is near.  God is initiating the last ingathering.  Hear the Shepherd’s call, O men of earth.”

Jesus,

Sheepherder of the Nations

May 17, 2012

          “All things come to pass as I have commanded.  From the earliest moment of creation, God’s perfect will has commenced on earth.  All happens according to His divine plan.  All is well on earth in God’s plan.  He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness.  He will straighten what is crooked.

          Each soul has a unique role to play in God’s dramatic overture on earth.  God weaves a universal tapestry in the lives of men on earth. 

          Some souls are gray and dreary.  They make up the background of the quilt.  Their destiny is to fade into the shadows that the brilliant colors may emerge more beautifully. 

          Some souls are black.  There is no color in their life.  Some souls are yellow, bright spots of cheerful gaiety.  Some souls are red, inflamed with fiery passion.  Some souls are purple, regal, noble, and refined.  Some souls are green, blending with nature.  Some souls are white, transparent in purity.  Some souls are multicolored, a rainbow of virtues.  Some souls glow with holy fervor.

          This stupendous tapestry is being displayed to the heavenly hosts.  They see the uniformity, the beautiful orderliness of the colors.  Those on earth only see the underside of the quilt, the loose threads hanging in disarray. 

          On that final day, they will rise above earth’s mists.  They will view the tapestry from heaven’s vantage point.  They will gasp in holy wonder at the intricate designs of God, full of splendor and glory.

          God does all things well.  Trust Him incessantly.”

Jesus,

Quilt Maker in Heaven