The Gift of Living in the Divine Will
Jesus tells us in His letter to humanity that it is His
Mother who is going about the nations disposing them to receiving the Gift of
His Divine Will. Therefore, I believe
that the Consecration is what disposes one to the knowledge and the desire to
living in His Will. We must remember
that this is a Gift of God and He gives it on loan to who has the knowledge and
the desire to live in His Will. Fr.
Joseph (Iannuzzi) has said that the knowledge does not need to come only through Luisa –
it can come in other ways, but a way that would lead us to desire the Gift.
“My daughter, it is
true that the living in my Will is a gift, and it is to possess the greatest
gift; but this gift - which contains infinite value, which is currency that
arises at each instant, which is light that never goes out, which is sun that
never sets, which puts the soul in her place, established by God in the divine
order, and therefore she takes her place of honor and of sovereignty in the Creation
– is given but to one who is disposed,
to one who will not waste it, to one who will esteem it so much and love it
more than his own life; even more, he must be ready to sacrifice his own
life so that this gift of my Will may have supremacy over everything, and be held as more than life itself - even
more, his life be nothing compared to It.
Therefore, first I
want to see that the soul really wants to do my Will and never her own, that
she is ready to make any sacrifice in order to do Mine, and that in everything
she does, she always asks Me for the gift of my Will, even just as a loan. Then, when I see that she does nothing without
the loan my Will, I give it as gift, because by asking for it over and over
again, she has formed the void within her soul, in which to place this
celestial gift; and by becoming used to living with the loan of this divine
food, she has lost the taste for her own will, her palate has been ennobled and
will no longer adapt itself to the vile foods of her own self. Therefore, in seeing herself in possession of that
gift which she longed for, yearned for, and loved so much, she will live of the
Life of that gift, she will love It, and will give It the esteem It
deserves. Dec. 25, 1925
It took Luisa many years before she received the Gift as
first God gave her the gift of the mystical marriage. So, there are steps to living in His Will and
I believe that the first step is giving ourselves to Mary through Consecration
to Her Immaculate Heart and She will lead us to the knowledge and the desire
for living this holy life.
LB
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