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My child,
discover yourself to Me. Show Me the hidden shadows of your heart. Let Me
illuminate your dark treasures. Let Me touch your secret inward walls. You
are My beloved temple: I love you, and I take utmost delight and joy in
you.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
doors; and the King of glory shall come in. -Psalm 24:7
Beloved, you have been in darkness for too long, and you have been in
hiding for too many a night. Come, open yourself to Me, and I will shine
My light upon the secret recesses of your soul. I love you, and I long for
you with the deepest of desirings. You are My special treasure, and I have
made you for My very own pleasure. Let Me delight in you.
Come, My beautiful child - redeemed by My very own blood, and given life
by My very own name: the name of Jesus - and spend some precious time with
Me. Let the cares of the day pass away, and let not your mind wander unto
others.
Come, open to Me, My fruitful field. My vineyard, let Me plant in you My
choicest vine. If you would but surrender, if you would but give up
yourself, I would tend to you as My special garden. For I shall remove all
the voiding stones from your fertile soil. I shall, with My holy hand,
plunge into your soil and take hold of the null spaces - the rocks that
inhibit your roots and fruitfulness - and take and cast these sins far
from you.
I long to come into My garden, and plant, and water, and give a blessed
increase. My soul loves your fruit. I want to make of you a very fruitful
branch. I want to share and impart to you the goodness and fatness of My
vine.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. I am the vine, ye
are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth
forth much fruit: -John 15:1, 5
Join yourself unto Me, and abide in the true vine. I long to pass unto you
My rapturous love and joy. In Me is total fulfillment, lo, even fruits of
heavenly delight. Am I not the Master Gardener? Am I not the answering and
fulfillment of all your deepest cries?
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that
the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and
eat his pleasant fruits. -Song of Solomon 4:16
If you would but come, and allow Me to love, and allow Me to bless, no
evil thing will I let invade your soul. Open to Me, make yourself
vulnerable only to Me, and I will carefully and gently protect My delicate
vine. I love your delicateness, and I will not bruise you. You are
precious and soft, and I will protect you with My very own rugged walls. I
will fence up My vineyard: My brazen walls shall encircle you, and My
flinty and stony brow shall shield you from the enemy. Fear not, for I am
thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced
it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest
vine, ...and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, -Isaiah
5:1-2
My treasure, when you dim the lights of this world, in this darkness I
will come upon you. I will come unto you with My light, and I will change
you unto My likeness. Open now your secret doors, and let the Gardener of
your soul come in, and let Me work My good work in you. For I am only
good, and I will only bless. Think not that I will spoil, but I will
rather flourish. The more you give over to Me, the more you will have, and
the more you shall be prospered in soul. Yet the more you keep back, and
the more you take, the more you shall suffer need, and have lack.
Beloved, I will bless you out of the riches of My storehouse. I will plant
in you My good seed, springing forth into good fruit, only let Me into the
secret garden of your heart, and shut not your door to Me. For the hidden
parts of your heart, in your care, and under your watch, are corrupt.
Your gardens soil was brought forth with Adams crooked seeds and stones
already buried within. Your treasures have been brought forth already in
decay. Your self-maintenance is but in vain while you do not allow Me
access to restore. Can you not see this? You guard your heart so
carefully, yet because it is kept in darkness you cannot see that it is
defiled. Have you never lifted the latch to behold the treasures that you
guard? Did you never pull back the rug and gaze upon the prizes you now
keep?
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of
life. -Proverbs 4:23
My love, how will you keep your treasures without Me? You are in darkness,
and you know not what it is that you even guard. For that which you keep
for yourself is corrupted: you guard spoiled treasure. Let Me both
protect, and restore. That which is guarded by your own self is not safe:
the enemy has already spoiled. As David has said, so it is with you: Behold,
I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me (Psalm
51:5). Open only to Me, and trust not even your own self to such
treasures. In your vulnerability to Me, I will beautify and illuminate
your place, and purge out all iniquity.
I look upon your soil, and see the beauty of its potential. I look on your
field, though now marred with rocks and weeds, and see a housing for My
good seeds and roots. I see a wonderful place where I can abide and bless
- where I can dwell and grow in you - shooting forth a fruitful vine unto
My glory, and to your own joy. I will plant an incorruptible seed, and I
will lovingly enfence you with a fortified wall, a bulwark.
Again I say, open to Me, My beloved, for at My hand is a thousand
blessings, and joys forevermore. Entrust your hidden treasures to Me. Only
I can clear out the evils that bewitch. Only I can cast out the stones,
and pull out the weeds. If only you could see My plans for you! If you
only knew My vehement love and desire toward you!
You are wounded, and you guard your heart with utmost care, yet look at
what you guard: it has been wasted away - have you never looked? Let Me
return, and let Me flourish you, My secret treasure. Let My light shine
within your inner treasure-chest. You are My treasure: to caution is good,
but to keep back even from Me is a sore and sad sin. Let Me in, and I will
both restore, and protect. In Me only is safety. Give up, oh My love, give
up to Me. |