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True Life in God Notebook 107 1098
Although my attempts to grasp You,
even the fringe of Your robe, were futile,
in Your Compassion, and to encourage me
not to leave the chase
but to continue my attempts to grasp You,
You have covered my path
with sapphires;
to reassure me of my attempts,
You signed with Your Finger
Your Name all over me with oil;
Column of Incense fragrance,
perfuming the world as You pass by,
how have I been deemed
worthy of such grace
to acquire Wisdom as a teacher?
When from my unworthy heart
I uttered my cry to You,
out from the heights
Your Sovereignty stooped over me,
revealing Yourself, while from Your Lips,
Your Divine Name was given to me;
anointing my soul with Holy Oil;
Unction of my soul,
in Your exuberant Love,
in Your Divine Folly,
You have adorned my soul
in stately clothes, clothing my nakedness
with Your Divine Signature,
making me Yours for ever and ever!
O Saviour,
arduous in Your Love for mankind,
moisten my lips now with grace
to address You always
with honour and praise ...
ah, beloved one! I have called you to
aspire for Me alone; I have called you to
be infatuated with Me, as much as you
infatuate Me; I have wounded your soul
by My beauty to call you into a life in
Me; My Presence that startles you to this
day and that reduced your soul into
nothing but a mere reflection of My
Light, enlivens you; My exuberant Love I
have for you, inebriated your soul to
thirst for Me; I have liberated you to
attain dispassion of body and soul; you
can attain impassibility only through
Me; in this impassibility I can plant
within you My celestial seeds;
see? see how I have made you a
witness to the people to summon all the
nations in order that those who are
unaware of My Presence will rush to Me
and glorify Me? I had said that I will
make My Words a fire in your mouth to
attract those who never knew Me to
serve Me with dispassion and to love My
Name; have I not said that I will repair
My broken altars?
in My own household, that is now
scattered, I will advance in there; I will
separate the haughty and proud hearts
from the pure of heart; just like one
separates goats from sheep; you have
been told to observe My Law and My
decrees, and you were asked to repent
wholeheartedly; the purification has
already started and some of you were
already visited by Me; have you
forgotten your words in your alarm
when you exclaimed in agony: “I have
been snatched in Your Fire, Lord!” at
last admitting your guilt, with groans of
repentance?
as for those who have not yet received
My visitation many torments await
them, the Day of the Lord will come
upon them too, and what a day that will
be! I shall be swift to show My Mercy,
provided you repent ... I will show My
Mercy and gather all of you from
everywhere under heaven; but before
that, I, the Author of this Love Hymn,
tell you, unless the world in its
wickedness turns to Me, repenting,
rendering love for evil, what can happen
to you all will outline all historical
records of purification!
Lord! I don’t know what to say!
there is no fervent repentance, no real
compunction ... the nations are in
uproar, and their achievements are the
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