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I love you, but I cannot help you without you...
March 31, 2025
Dear Family of Mary!
March 25, 2025 Message from Our Lady of Medjugorje:
"Dear
children, in this time of grace when you are called to conversion, I am
encouraging you, little children: offer me your prayers, sufferings and
tears for conversion of hearts that are far from the Heart of my Son
Jesus. Pray with me, because, little children, without God you do not
have a future or eternal life. I love you, but I cannot help you without
you; therefore, say ‘yes’ to God. Thank you for having responded to my
call." (With Ecclesiastical approval)
I love you, but I cannot help you without you!!!
I think we can
develop an attitude that implies that Our Lady can do anything, so we
can just pray and wait for miracles!! But at least in my life, when I
have done that, nothing happened!!! It was clear that Our Lady could
not help me without me!!!!
Why not? Because
God has given us a free will, and He will not contradict our will, and
Our Lady will not either. God does not treat us like pawns. He gave us
the right and responsibilty to steer our own course in life. It is a
sacred charge.
In the Book of
Deuteronomy, the Lord set before the Israelites two ways. One was to
follow Him, and the other was to follow their own desires. The first way
would lead to life, and the second would lead to death. But God did not
force the people to follow Him then, and He will not force us either.
We need to choose Him and participate in the life He gives us with pure
and whole hearts.
Here was His ultimatum:
"I
call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set
before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life,
that you and your descendants may live, loving the LORD your God,
obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and
length of days, that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to
your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." (Deut.
30:19-20)
We see how respectful the Lord was to the free wills
of the people of Israel. They had to choose. He could not and would
not force them into the path He had for them. Their wills had to be
involved, forming and moving them to act as God had shown them.
Our wills must also be actively involved in choosing
the way that God is leading us through Our Lady. She cannot "save" us.
But she can lead us and guide us into the right paths that will bring
us to God. She speaks the words of life, but we must listen and choose
to live that way of life that God is offering us through Our Lady.
In other words, she cannot help us without US!! We
need to be actively involved in the plan of salvation that is set before
us. Mother will help us, but she needs us to be actively involved!!
Mother needs us!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
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