January
26, 1988
To
My People,
If
only I could bring you to understand that it is only as you come
to me over My deepest challenges to your life that you come into
My likeness and fulfil My will for your lives. It is your
weaknesses and temptations—your desires—over which I call you to
Me—not your good works and your “ministries.” Your weaknesses
and temptations become your ministry as I shape you over them.
Why
then do you leave the path that is truest to your own self for
that which conforms you to ideas? For verily I say unto you, the
path that is truest to your deepest being is the path that is
truest to Me. It is only through the door of your deepest self
that you can come to Me. Why then do you hide from your own
self?
To
hide from your own self is to hide from Me. I am the seat of all
personality. To find Me, you must come through the seat of your
own personality—your failures, your flaws, your shortcomings,
your needs.
But
why do you fear to face your failures? Have not I taken care of
them all? Has not my blood paid the price? Why then do you fear?
For verily I say unto you, the devil doth know that in the day
you step through the door of your desires to come to Me you
shall surely live—yes, you shall fulfil my great purpose for
your life—for the pattern of your failures mirrors My pattern
for your perfection. As you come to Me by the one which is
flawed, you find the one which is not.
Therefore
I ask you, what do you fear? Is it a hard thing to be humble?
You
see that it is not a hard thing to be humble. For by humility I
do not demean you. Humility is not to be brought low as to be
conformed to the idea of what men call lowness. Humility is only
to face yourself for who you really are. Humility is only to be
honest toward yourself. By this I esteem you. I say then, is it
such a hard thing to be honest? Why do you fear that which alone
leads you to Me?
Look
about you, My People. What do you see? What is missing among
you? Is it not my Personality? Is it not the reflection of Who I
am among you?
But
what do I see? Every one of you strives after an idea—after an
image—of Who I am. But you do not come to Me through who you
truly are. You fear to face Me. But it is not Me you fear to
face—but rather your own self.
You
hide from yourself, and in my name you strive after an idea of
Me—and therewith you cover yourself. You spin thought. You crave
involvement. You “minister.” But you minister death,
because you do not minister from Me—My Life, My
Personality—because you do not minister from who you are [in
Me]. You minister an image—a dead image. You have no
personality. Is not this the tell tale sign of what you
lack?
But
is not this what marks the world?—that they do not reflect My
Personality? Why therefore are you like the world, and what
separates you from the world except that you vainly take My Name
upon you?
For
unless you come to Me through the door of your weakness, you do
not come to Me, but to an idea of Me—an image. This is baal—the
essence of false religion. You do not reflect My Personality.
And unless you reflect My Personality, it is vanity and a curse
for you to bear My Name.
What
then would I say to you, My People?—you who come to Me but do
not hear Me, you who use My name but do not know Me? I say to
you, My people—Cease—Cease—Be still…within yourselves. Lay your
mind to rest. Commit the idol houses of your mind to the
grave—the house of your religious imagery erected in My Name to
hide you from your own heart’s cry. Dismantle your
understandings before Me—the essence of your pride. Disengage
yourselves from the involvement wherewith you have clothed the
frame of your baal house.
Here
Me, My People. Come to Me through the true door—the door of who
you truly are before Me. Come to me through your inadequacies,
your hurts, your dreams and desires. For it is of these that the
substance of My true call upon your life is made. It is here
that I may impart unto you My very own Self—yea, My own
Personality. For as you come to Me by these, the reflection of
My Life in yours increases. And the measure of your holiness and
your perfection, and of your fulfillment personal.
Do
you not see that it is only as you are a conductor for My
Personality that I may save others through you? And do you not
realize that you only have love one to another to the measure
you reflect My Personality one to another? For I am love. And I
am saving Life. Yea, my People, you speak of “love,” but know
not whereof you speak. For to you”love” is an idea to which you
conform and to which you hold one another hostage. It is one
more beam on your idol house by which you keep yourself from
coming to me through your weaknesses whereby the love that I AM
might reach through you to one another.
Oh,
my People would you not cease from this lifeless charade? Would
you not put off the yoke of self righteous bondage? Wherefore I
plead with you. Leave your world of idea and come to me through
who you are within. Leave off building the empire of another
man’s vision—for I have a vision for you alone – the true vision
of which your weaknesses are a dim reflection. Come to me
through them, and I will recreate them by the infusion of My own
Life and bring them to fulfillment.
Come
– let me show you the kingdom that resides within your own
heart. Fear not yourself for my blood has paid all. Let Me
reshape the world by what I have conceived in you. Together, let
us recreate the universe.
This
is my will for you and the key to your complete salvation.