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         How I weep for My young ones! Is your heart weeping for them? Do you pain with those that pain, and weep with those that weep? Do you take them in your arms and hold them and comfort them and pray for them as I do for you? Do you show them pure, unconditional love as I have shown you?
         Have you so quickly forgotten what struggles you had in your youthful years? Do you forget that these are they upon whose tiny shoulders so great a task is lain? Do you forget that these, My prophets of the end, will usher in My Kingdom come on Earth, and because of this Satan fights them like no others?
         Do you suffer with those that suffer, and feel the agony of their hearts as I felt the agony of your heart? Say not that this task is too big, for I am the Good Shepherd and I go before My shepherds of love and show you the way. I will strengthen you. I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness! You will not fail if you look to Me, lean on Me, and ask of Me.
         I know what it's like to feel at wits' end corner with these who seem indifferent. I faced the same with My fold when I walked upon the Earth. It was with My band of bungling babes that I learned My most precious lessons. In their weakness, I was made perfect. Through their weakness I learned to have infinite mercy and compassion.
         Did I not hang on the cross between the two thieves, and yet promise that one would be with Me in Paradise the same day? Yes, he was full of faults. Yes, he had failed. Yet My compassion did not fail him, for I saw that his heart was right.
         It was through the weaknesses of the sheep of My fold that I grew to be the Good Shepherd. Through their weaknesses I learned the invaluable golden lesson of tolerance, that you might be saved.
         If I would reward you according to your sins, who would be saved? Therefore, as I have not rewarded you according to your iniquities, I would that you do the same for these, the sheep I have entrusted into your hand. For all that are Mine are thine, and I have given them into your hand. As far as the east is from the west, so great is My love for you, and this is the love that I wish for you to bestow on these little ones.



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