“If I am at your center, then there is no need to hear words of people’s praise
only to fill a momentary pleasure. This is selfishness, and should be avoided! It is detrimental to anyone’s growth, hurts and sufferings included.”(From Gianna below)
In our culture, service is typically followed by some kind of accolades or recognition. Service awards for doing good. I remember one Church affiliated organization I headed up where they wanted us to lie on our reports so we could meet a quota at the state level without having even done the deed. Bureaucracy gone awry. That was about someone higher up getting recognized for something they not only didnt do, it was something they weren’t even supposed to do. They were only supposed to encourage someone else to do it. Service organizations can be great things if they’re engaged for the right reasons. When the award comes in getting to see the results of the service itself. In the happiness that reflects from true charity when we help to make the broken whole again. I just think that if we’re in it for a plaque on the wall, we’re probably in it for the wrong reason. I think even the most delicate reflection of Jesus’ words should give us strong indication of this. “But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.”(Matt 6:3) It’s an odd metaphor, but I’m pretty sure a service plaque on my wall is telling everyone who visits us what we did, when God says it’s just between us and Him. Accolades and humility are contradictory, and sometimes we put way too much effort in the accolades as opposed to service to God and humankind, which should be the award in itself. Service always seems to be followed by an “Awards Banquet.” Dinner’s nice, but if you want to award me, let me out of sitting through the long ceremony. Accolades are between us and God. Totus Tuus.❤️🙏
As told to Gianna Talone Sullivan, July 4, 1992, I am your Jesus of Mercy Vol IV. Assisi
Seek Only Me
“My dear one, look to console instead of being consoled.
Do not look to hear words of yourself and your actions that would please you! Look to be at the assistance of others. I am your Lord Who, at this time, desires that My chosen forget themselves and tend to Me! Quiet the mind and acknowledge how unproductive it is to seek consolation from
others. You need to seek only Me. It delays your journey
when you desire a human to support or evaluate your spiritual
performance, when only the eyes of God can see your interior
motives!
I wish for My people to reflect upon this. If I am at your
center, then there is no need to hear words of people’s praise
only to fill a momentary pleasure. This is selfishness, and
should be avoided! It is detrimental to anyone’s growth, hurts
and sufferings included. Seek to serve others. Listen, pray and
achieve all that is good through serving others and listening to
their painful cries. This will turn into your consolation.
When I say to forget yourselves, I am speaking of loving
Me by denying your humanness, in order that I may live in
union with your willingness. There are many of My people
who live in pain, and are in need of love, and the embrace
of comfort. Console these, My people. You are gathered to
be in community to love and console one another in times of
need and care. But do not SEEK consolation from others, as
it relates to praises, yet graciously accept it when it comes.
Simply avoid seeking after it, but console others. It is not as
important to be understood as to understand, because if you
live in Me and I in you, then you are understood by God.
Remember, through Him all things came to be, and apart
from Him nothing came to be. It is only He you need to love.
I understand because I AM THE WORD WHO BECAME
FLESH.
Let your spirit exalt in your Savior and put to rest your hu-
man behaviors, desiring praises of humans. I love My people.
ALL WHO LIVE THE WORD ARE CHOSEN! Remember,
you did not choose Me: it is I Who chose you. Those who
know the Word know they did not choose, but were chosen.
Peace, My dear one. Ad Deum.”