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My love,
I am your Creator. I have made you in My image, and I have formed you
after My likeness.
Look now upon your heart, and I will teach you these things: for your
heart has been formed in the soft clay. I have laid My hand upon this
earthen tablet, and pressed down deep, making an intimate, soul-defining
impression. I have left, as it were, My handprint upon your heart.
Beloved, I made you as My own home, as My own dwelling-place. Oh My child,
how I love you! I have created you to be always filled with My presence. I
have formed you to be always host to My outspread hand. You are My
resting-place.
Beloved, you were meant for Me, for we are a beautiful pair. You were
formed as an imprint of My very fullness; you were formed around My
goodness. Your heart is called Lacking, and I am called Satisfaction. This
imprinted lacking is not evil, for it was made around My satisfaction: you
were formed in My image. I am as water, and I have made you as a thirsty
throat - why not drink of Me? You are made whole, and perfect, and
complete in Me. You were not made to be alone. I complete you. This is
what I have created, and this is how I have formed you.
Do you not see how deeply My image is imprinted upon and excavated into
your heart? When I formed you, how deeply My hand sunk into you! I have
formed your heart, your very being, to be filled and completed by Me. Do
you not see how intimate My words are when I say, “I am your Creator”?
I am your Completer. “For thy Maker is thine husband” (Isaiah
54:5). I am that which you lack. You are called Lacking, and I am called
Fullness.
I am your Creator, and I have made you for My very own self - yet, My
love, how perverse many things have become! You look often to the flesh:
you look to the body to fulfill that which is lacking in your heart. Do
you not know that it is My Spirit which you lack? Man does not live by
bread alone, but by every word of God. If you are starved in your heart,
will eating earthly bread make you whole? You need My Spirit. Your body,
and all of this earthly creation - they are meant to show of spiritual
things: water to a thirsty tongue, bread to the hungry stomach, seeds to
the soil, oxygen to the lungs, a husband to his wife, a bird to his nest.
Do these not all, if but imperfectly, reflect My divine plan for your
heart?
Beloved, if you see the beauty in such earthly fulfillments in the flesh,
what then shall the fulfillment of your soul bring? If earthly water
trickles down into your dry throat, and quenches every parched place of
your body, what then shall My Spirit do in your heart? If delightful bread
is eaten, which rejoices the tongue, and satisfies the stomach, what then
shall I do for your soul? If I have sunk My hand down so deeply, and if I
have pressed so intimately upon your inmost being, what then do you
suppose the fulfilling and satisfaction of such will bring?
My love, look not to this world to satisfy that which ought to be filled
by My very own Spirit. I have created the things of this world to be good,
and beautiful; yet when put into this special impression in your heart,
such things become ugliness. Such things are not as important as you
think, for there is more to the life than the body.
Things that were meant to teach, and were meant for good - while in the
world's use, and in man's heart - have become desperately perverted.
Beloved, do not be carnally minded. For this world, from Adam's
transgression, has fallen headlong into sinful substitutes. Unregenerate
man, who has not My Spirit, nor My salvation, seeks always, in most
restless fashion, earthly, carnal, sensual, and sinful substitutes.
Remember that I have created the world good, yet, My dear one, when you
put such things in your hidden imprints, and hope in such things for
fulfillment, they only clog, bind, and sabotage the gears of your heart.
Things are good, but they are not God.
Man cannot cease from sin: he cannot cease from searching. As My lost
children, men follow after that old devil, their father below, the serpent
that deceives the whole world - and they do not cease in their
self-sabotage. They are ever-searching, ever-trying, ever-looking,
ever-curious: putting all manner of abominations and earth's pleasing
things within their hearts.
Beloved, I have spoken this to you that you be not like them. Such are
blind, and cannot see their desperate state: how they need that touch from
their invisible Creator. My love, have I not intended for you a much
better life? I complete you. Why should you live as those that are blind?
Why should you live as those that are empty? You are called Lacking, and I
am called Satisfaction. I will fill you! Again I say, if you let Me, I
will fill.
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.” -Psalm 23:1
Is man a beast? Will he live only by what he can see? Truly, something is
missing from man deep down inside. I have made him more than an animal:
why then should he live like one? Child, I have made you so much better
than beasts! Why then should you live as one?
Thirst to thirst. Hunger to hunger. Loneliness to loneliness. All of life
is spent only adding to despair. As a fugitive, man runs from his Creator,
the only one that can truly satisfy. Such ones heap pain upon pain, and
sorrow upon sorrow, while the imprints of their hearts are filled with
jagged rocks and sharp points. Backbiters, traitors, slanderers, abusers,
adulterers, pleasure-seekers, proud, arrogant, greedy, and selfish;
daggers' points, swords' edges, and serpents' teeth; all will cut or
poison with the most bitter of stings. Where is My gentle hand? Where is
My healing touch?
Beloved, I have spoken these things to you that you be not like them. Take
rest in Me, and I in you. Look on your heart, and on your hurts: the very
areas where you are confused, where you have worry, and where you have
pains: these are the areas where I am not. Where you lack is where I am
not. I long to live in you. I long to fill you. This is what I have even
made you for. Remove the substitutes of this world, and empty your heart.
Call out to Me, and cry to Me with all your heart, and without fail I will
come. Without fail I will fill in your desolate places. Child, without
fail I am your Creator. Lacking, without fail I am Satisfaction. |