joz-noveen 8

Sixth Day of the Novena

When I was called to go to Bethlehem with the Most Holy Mary... 

She being so fragile and close to giving birth to the Child... 

I found Myself facing another test of faith. I knew that the Prophesies were beginning to be fulfilled, and that the Son of God would come to the world, just as in the Sacred Scriptures. But My mind and My Heart were being tested, and harassed [bestookt] in each instant of this mission. I had to inwardly bear with all the discouragement of the enemy of God and keep the faith, above and beyond its false strength.

The journey was long, and in spite of the Virgin Mary being assisted by the angels and the archangels, She was tired, for She also had to bear with the harassments of the enemy. The Son of God was about to arrive and both the Light and the darkness had their eyes upon Us.

Arriving in Bethlehem...

I wanted to find the best place for the Child and His Holy Mother... 

but all that We received, was humiliation and successive disdain [minachting]. We prayed to God for His guidance, until We were led to the caves of Bethlehem. After so many tests, I understood that God had not abandoned Us with His Son, but rather that He, in His Divine Thought, did not have My human idea of what was best for the Child. 

The Father wanted His Son, from the beginning, to demonstrate His Humility to the world. And it was among the poor, and among the most humble and servile of the animals, that the Son of Man came to be born.

Sometimes, children, we need to be tested, humiliated and even disdained... 

to purify our human will...

and discover that God has not abandoned us...

but rather, He had been waiting for us in the inner precinct [omgrensd gebied], where our heart is able to live humility. So, when you feel lost, tested, humiliated and alone, pray to the Father in My Name and, with My intercession, I will help you to find the place of inner humility where God awaits you:

Lord,

like the Most Chaste Saint Joseph,

test me, so that my faith may be fortified.

Purify me, so that I may set aside the old human.

And teach me to let myself be humiliated,

so that I may discover

that, in humility, You wait

to reveal Your Heart

to me.

Amen.

[bron]