Thursday Truth in Deep Love🤗❤️🙏
“When you grow slowly, it is difficult to see the change at once. Also, this is for your humility. The vices of the flesh need taming; and the worst vice, that of pride, is the most poisonous and the most difficult to tame! It is not as important for you to see the change as it is for you to be open, to be a vessel of love!”(From Jesus to Gianna below)
How often does pride rear its ugly head in our communications with others? Even with those closest to us, our family and friends or co-workers, we fall into the old trap of “listening to respond,” as opposed to listening out of true empathy. Our ego needs to feel significant and we make another person’s story about us, as opposed to understanding what’s happening with the person to whom we should be listening. I’m not optimistic when I witness elderly couples bickering, as many do, but as we grow with others, I believe it does truly behoove us to maintain an awareness of our pride going forward in life so that we might be the ones to break the cycle and to truly nurture those around us in a way that keeps all of us in God’s Divine Light. Considering how often we do fail at communicating, especially in marriage, I think it helps us to maintain awareness and self improvement challenges going forward if we constantly remind ourselves to open up and to just listen. Listen, and remember that we don’t have to solve the challenge before us in the next 60 seconds, and that a pause in our response will make for a better response because we’ve actually made time to consider a situation from all facets. To truly grow with and understand each other isn’t for the faint of heart, and it does take work. The world’s divorce rate should give us a clear indication as to how often we fail to just listen. To suspend our ego in a way that gives others a safe place to truly open their souls and to allow love to flow through their being. We’re all capable of this, but pride is a strong force, and until we learn to manage that force and bring humility to the table, our personal and spiritual maturity have no choice but to remain stunted. A friend once told me that “ego=Edging God Out.” If we take time to reflect on Jesus’s ministry from His humble beginning to His passion and death, we will hopefully come to some semblance of realization as we remember that “pride does goeth before a fall,” and that it is the deadliest of sins. Jesus never displayed pride, and neither should we. Pride is never of God, and I pray that we all open ourselves up to humility as Jesus did, and follow Him on the path to holiness, that we might remain all in, and totally His.❤️🙏
(Reflection by Kenny Meek)
Message from Jesus to Gianna Talone Sullivan, I am your Jesus of Mercy Vol IV
GROWTH (7/27/92)
My dear one, because you do not see your interior growth
being relayed to your exterior actions, does not mean that other people do not see your growth. It is the same, not only for you, but all My people. Remember, you are blind to many things of yourself, and what I do outwardly through you may not be noticed according to either your understanding or expectations. This, however, does not mean that My works through you go unnoticed.
When you grow slowly, it is difficult to see the change at once. Also, this is for your humility. The vices of the flesh need taming; and the worst vice, that of pride, is the most poisonous and the most difficult to tame! It is not as important for you to see the change as it is for you to be open, to be a vessel of love!
“When you are in the forest, it is hard to see the trees.” It is the same with spiritual growth. My people should not focus on where they are in their journey because selfish vanity can develop. They should, rather, seek the journey lived by My Saints as a guide to assist them in identifying the path.
Why is it so necessary for you to know the great works I do through you? When you are totally empty is when you shall know; but by that point, you will not desire to know.
Tame this vice of pride now! I am not only speaking to you, but to all My people. You are no different than they are. The human vices need to be tamed. How shrewd the subconscious to deceive you to experience self-pity and need for acceptance and praise of your graces! Put aside these harmful thoughts and continue to simply live quietly in My love.
There is nothing you could say that I could not say without you! There is nothing you could do that I could not do without you. I molded you. I gave you the words to speak. I gave you the gift of knowledge. I gave you the strength and wisdom to succeed. So, as you receive, give back to me what is mine.
But also remember My love for you, and that I need you because I came for you! I was broken for you, and so much desire your happiness and love. So, see My teachings, not as a reprimand, but as encouragement to face your vices and to surrender even more unto Me, that I may clean you and make you pure of your human vices of the flesh. I will replace them with the spiritual virtues of heaven.
I regret to have exposed you, child, to your own inadequate vices for the sake of My people, but My people shall come first, and you shall be last. For I will NOT let one of My lambs be lost. The gems of My heart shall shine, and each, in their own beauty and rarity, have a priceless value!