If you accept that the voice of the late Christian journalist, Sarah Young, from Australia, heard was that of our Lord, one might then take a look at her diary for this time of year.

“Try to  imagine,” she heard Him say, “what I gave up when I came into your world as a baby.”

Call these “listening prayers,” Young, who died last year, and was born in Nashville, Tennessee (before moving Down Under), suffered through much of her life with melanoma, Lyme disease, and vertigo. Her book of “revelations,” controversial to some, has sold thirteen million copies. An intensely private person, she rarely gave interviews and then only via email.

“I set aside My Glory, so that I could identify with mankind. I accepted the limitations of infancy under the most appalling conditions–a filthy stable.

“That was a dark night for Me, even though angels lit up the sky proclaiming, ‘Glory!’ to awestruck shepherds.

“My Plan for your life is unfolding before you,” He presumably continued, for our discretion (in Jesus Calling). “Sometimes the road you are traveling seems blocked, or it opens up so painfully slowly that you must hold yourself back.

“Then, when the time is right the way before you suddenly clears—through no effort of your own. What you have longed for and worked for I present to you freely, as pure gift. You feel awed by the ease with which I operate in the world, and you glimpse My Power and My Glory.

“Do not fear your weakness, for it is the stage on which My power and Glory perform most brilliantly. As you persevere along the path I have prepared for you, depending on My strength to sustain you, expect to see miracles—and you will. Miracles are not always visible to the naked eye, but those who live by faith can see them clearly. Living by faith, rather than sight, enables you to see My Glory.”

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