St. John of the Cross

The Ascent of Mt. Carmel, Book 2

Meditation from Sunday Morning at Conference

Anyone who would seek God need do no more than fixing their eyes directly on Jesus Christ. Anything else is folly and is offending to God, and they might as well seek some other kind of novelty.

God will respond to anything else other than seeking Christ in this way: If I have told you all things in My word and if I have no further revelation; what answer or revelation could I make that would surpass this?

Fasten your eyes on Christ alone. Because in Him, I have spoken and revealed all, and in Him, you will discover even more than you ask for or desire.

You continue seeking in places and in ways, which are incomplete, but if you turn your eyes to Him, then you will find all you seek.

For He is my entire Word and response. He is my entire vision and revelation - which I have already spoken, answered, manifested, and revealed to you by giving Him to you as a brother, companion, master, ransom and reward.

Since that day, when I descended upon Him with My Spirit on Mount Tabor proclaiming: This is my Beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased and told all to listen to Him. I have relinquished all methods of answering and teaching and presented all means of reaching you to Him.

Hear Him, because I have no more faith to reveal, or any more truths to manifest.

All I spoke before, was to promise you Christ; if they question Me, their inquiries were related to their petitions and longings for Christ in Whom they were to obtain every good as it is evidenced in My Word.

But now anyone seeking and desiring that I speak and reveal something to them would somehow be requesting Christ again, and more faith, yet he would be failing in faith, because Christ has already been given.

If you desire Me to answer you with a word of comfort; behold My Son, and you will find that He will answer you completely.

If you desire Me to declare some truths or events to you, fix your eyes on Jesus, and you will find and discern hidden in Him the most secret mysteries, you will find complete wisdom, you will find the wonders of God as the apostles proclaimed - In Him are hidden all the treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God.