True Life in God
Notebook 99
1024
So why do You wait?
Why are You not intervening? Now!
do you dare challenge My Wisdom? are
you provoking My Omnipotence?
Ah, Lord,
to compose Your Household,
I can give my life for it and I have given it;
but my zeal for Your House devours me,
and when it comes to lift Your House
so that it does not fall,
I have given my soul and body,
regardless of the consequences;
I have sweated blood,
and at times spat out blood
from the scourge that crushed me,
and You know it;
I was handed down by Your Own
after they had hounded me like game;
but no complaint was heard from me;
For no reason
they treated me as a renegade,
but I withstood all the trials I faced,
for Your mighty Hand withheld my frailty;
my days are swirling like dust
to return to dust,
and I see no end to Your Holy Agony;
so for how long yet am I to keep saying:
“too long am I to live among people
who hate peace?”
for how long am I to watch
heaven mourning for its household
and its holy City?
am I to remain passive
while You are being
recrucified unnecessarily?
You know me, my Lord,
You who turned me
like a sycamore from Egypt,
that I would go, had I even to crawl,
in every country as You command,
and grain everywhere
Your Word given to me,
even on the mountain tops, I would go,
and down to the ravines;
You know me, Lord,
my mouth would not want
for arguments with Your Wisdom,
nor Your Omnipotence; never!
but the pillars of heaven tremble,
struck with awe from all that they see
in Your House;
the angels tremble
on the tremendous scourge
that is awaiting us in the coming days;
so how could I
compose myself in chaos?
Vassula, I shall tell you something in a
few moments, something you do not
know, but let Me tell you already this:
I am going to do something
1
in your
own days that you would not believe if
you were to be told of it .... then, this is
what you should know: I have in this
very Household I have been telling you
about, kept a tiny remnant for Myself,
chosen by grace, nothing to do with their
good deeds; they are: a whispered echo
of My Voice; am I not likely to hear these
whispered cries?
(I looked sideways at Jesus and said:)
Have I set my face for a moment against
You like flint?
1
From that date when the message was being
received, March 8, 2000, in less than two weeks,
while on a pilgrimage and gathering of the TLIG
family in the Holy Land, we were given permission
by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem to
celebrate two Orthodox Liturgies with pre-sanctified
gifts, in the Holy Sepulchre Church and on Mount
Tabor, and invite everyone to receive the Holy
Communion; we were 450 people with 12 Church
denominations and there were no restrictions or
interdiction to receive Holy Communion. - I think,
maybe it was the first time in history, after the great
Schism that the Greek Orthodox, invited EVERYONE
to receive the Holy Blood and Body of Christ. Yes,
indeed, Jesus, I would not have believed if I were to
be told of before this happened! Glory be to God!
© Vassula Rydén