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Look on
your heart, and think on your life. Show your doings to Me, and hide not
your thoughts.1 Beloved, what do you see in your heart, and what will you
find there? Do you have soft spots? Do you have areas of hurt? Do you have
places in your own soul that are forbidden to you? Child, turn not away
from such in ignorance. Oh dear one, do not cover your wounds with any
covering but My Spirit.2
Behold, the infirmities and wounds of your soul are as deep infections and
diseases: there is no soundness nor health in them at all. As a decaying
tooth, so too does this evil worm and corrupt its way down into your inner
life.
You must show Me your pains. Child, I know it is not pleasant, yet you
must bear this rottenness before Me, for only I can truly bring
restoration. Again I say, look upon your heart: upon people, upon things,
upon events, and upon pains and heartaches. No sidestepping.
Do you see forbidden areas? Do you see that there are pitfalls in your
thoughts that you must avoid to keep your composure up? Do you see that
there are places which, if you go to them, and dwell upon them, you will
be taken and thrust through and pierced with many sorrows?3 Look at what is
within you! Beloved, My precious and special creation, I tell you most
solemnly: let Me in. Again, these things are not to be overlooked, for
they have a poignant effect on your inner-life: do not continue on in a
bitter and willful half-ignorance.
Show Me your secret and deep pains, My child. I know it hurts you, but I
want only to heal. Let Me in. I want only to help. As the decay in a tooth
must first be exposed and drilled away, so too do I now ask for you to
show Me the hidden hurts of your heart. You cannot cover them, for your
own self-coverings will only continue to decay and worm out your roots.
You will only cover your toothaches with sugar.
Beloved, come to Me in a full earnestness and a guileless trust.4 Tell Me
exactly how you feel, and just what you think, and just what you see. Do
not hide anything from Me. I know it is rottenness, but do not hold back
or keep it from Me. Child, do not be afraid! I already know it is
rottenness, and I know the corruptions that have entered your inward life.
I love you. Let Me in. You may be surprised how I will not condemn or
shame you for your admissions and confessions. I have already seen your
every thought and move, and I want only for you to come clean. My anger
shall not burn forever: I want only our reconciliation.5
Why should your pains separate us any longer? Why should these weak spots
remain soft for even another hour? Behold, I will purge out and remove all
your hidden pains and sorrows, and I will, as a decayed tooth, drill out
that which was ailing.6
Yet beloved, take courage, for in this weakness I will fill you with My
strength! In this cavity I will inlay pure gold. In your pains I will pour
out the grace of My Spirit in abundant measure. I tell you plainly, you
shall seek for your old areas of pain, and for your pitfalls, and you
shall not find them.7 You shall behold the former places of desolation, and
you shall see no ruin or shame. I will take away the stings, and I will
consume away the pains. You shall look upon those places of old stabs and
cuts, and you shall feel no sharpness, but rather, My gentle, abiding, and
everlasting hand shall caress and hold you. Where the ugliness of sin once
dwelt, instead My smile shall charm you.
“To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit
of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the
planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.” -Isaiah 61:3
Child, I want you every bit whole. Do not hide from Me. Can you not see
the terrible weights that hang on you? Do not cover your pains with your
own self-remedies. Do not be ignorant of your detestable and terrifying
areas: I want to expel the evil. Precious, I want to take away your pains.
Let Me in. To cover them with anything but My own Spirit is to add sin
unto sin. To cover with self is to cover your deep pit with thin sticks
and dried leaves that will not uphold you. When you walk upon these
deceitful bridges, they shall give way, and cast you back into that old,
drudgerous pit of sorrow.
Come now, and show Me your pains. Have you forgotten that they are there?
Look now, and you will understand your many troubles and difficulties. Do
you not consider that when you harbor such rottenness and bitterness, you
will have corruptions in many neighboring things? Come now, My beloved,
and expose these sensitive areas to My eyes. Uncover these dark spots to
My hands. Let Me see, and let Me work. I will bind you up whole, and I
will restore.
I know it is more than you can think, but it is even My delight to take
your wounds and turn them to joy. Your cavities shall be filled with gold!
The places where you have been in pain and struggle, it is there that I
will delight to make you smile.8 In the place where you have fallen, in
this very indentation I will raise up a great building. I will replace
your corrupted things with incorruption. How I love you, little one: let
Me strengthen you with the might of My arm.
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