The Gift

 

Volume 17 - September 18, 1924

The Gift of the Divine Will

 

“To live in my Will is to live as a son; to do my Will is to live as a servant.  In the first state, what belongs to the father belongs to the son, and many times servants make more sacrifices than sons do; they have to expose themselves to more toilsome and more humble services, to cold, to heat, to traveling on foot.  In fact, how much have my Saints not done in order to execute the orders of my Will?  On the other hand, a son remains with his father, takes care of him, cheers him with his kisses and with his caresses; he commands the servants as if his father were commanding; if he goes out, he does not go on foot, but travels in a carriage.  And while the son possesses everything that belongs to his father, servants are given only the retribution for the work they have done, remaining free to serve or not to serve their master; and if they do not serve, they have no more right to receive any further compensation.  On the other hand, between father and son, no one can remove these rights:  that the son possess the goods of the father; no law, either celestial or terrestrial, can remove these rights, nor unbind the sonship between father and son.  My daughter, the living in my Will is the living that is closest to the blessed of Heaven; and it is so distant from one who does my Will and is faithfully submitted to my orders, just as Heaven is distant from the earth, just as the distance between a son and a servant, and between a king and a subject.  And besides, this is a gift which I want to give in these times, so sad - that they may not only do my Will, but possess It.  Am I perhaps not free to give whatever I want, whenever I want, and to whomever I want?  Is a master not free to say to his servant:  ‘Live in my house, eat, take, command like another me’?  And so that no one may prevent him from possessing his goods, he legitimizes this servant as his own son, and gives him the right to possess.  If a rich man can do so, much more can I do it.

 

This living in my Will is the greatest gift I want to give to creatures.  My goodness wants to make ever greater display of love toward creatures; and since I have given them everything, and have nothing else to give to make Myself loved, I want to give them the gift of my Will, so that, by possessing It, they may love the great good they possess.  And do not be surprised if you see that they do not understand.  In order to understand, they would have to dispose themselves to the greatest of sacrifices:  that of not giving life, even in holy things, to their own will.  Then would they feel the possession of Mine, and would touch with their own hands what it means to live in my Will.  You, however, be attentive, and do not be bothered by the difficulties they raise; and I, little by little, will make my way to make them understand the living in my Will.”

 

 

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How living in the Divine Will is a gift.  Example of the poor one and example of the king.  How the gift is (an) excess of the love and magnanimity of God, which neither minds nor wants to keep accounts of the great value that he gives.

 

I felt myself all immersed in the Divine Volition.  A crowd of thoughts preoccupied my mind, but always on the Fiat himself, because in Him one cannot think of other; his sweet enchantment, his light that invests everything, his so many truths that as (a) formidable army take sides (all) around, they remove all that which doesn’t belong to Him.  The happy creature that finds herself in the Divine Will, finds herself as in a celestial atmosphere:  all happy, in the fullness of the peace of the saints and if she wants something it is only that everyone might know a Volition so amiable, so holy, she would like that everyone might come to enjoy her happiness.

 

But I thought to myself:  “But how can it be that creatures can come to live in the Divine Will in order to be able to form his holy kingdom?”  And my beloved Jesus surprising me said to me:

 

“My daughter, how little you are!  One sees that your littleness doesn’t know how to elevate itself in the power, immensity, goodness and magnanimity of your Creator, and from its littleness it measures our greatness and our liberality.  Poor tiny one, you disperse yourself in our interminable powers and you don’t know how to give the just weight to our divine and infinite ways.  It is true that humanly speaking, [for] the creature, surrounded by the evils as she is, to live in my Volition, he forms his kingdom in the midst of them, it is as if she might want to touch Heaven with (her) finger, that which is impossible, but that which is impossible to men is possible to God.

 

“You should know that living in our Will is a gift that our magnanimity wants to give to creatures, and with this gift the creature will feel transformed:  from poor, rich, from weak, strong, from ignorant, learned, from slave of vile passions, sweet and voluntary prisoner of a Will all holy that won’t hold her imprisoned, but king of herself, of the divine dominions and of all created things.  It will happen as to a poor one that dresses in miserable rags, lives in a hovel without doors, hence he is exposed to thieves and enemies.  He doesn’t have sufficient bread to satisfy his hunger and is constrained to beg for it.  If a king might give him a gift (of) a million, the poor one would change his fate and he would no longer make the figure of a poor beggar, but of a lord that possesses palaces, villas, he dresses with decency, holds abundant foods and is put in the condition to be able to help others.  Who has changed the fate of this poor one?  The million received in gift.  Now if a vile coin holds the virtue to change the fate of an poor unhappy one, much more so the great gift of our Will, given as gift, He will change the unhappy fate of the human generations, except one who voluntarily wants to remain in his unhappiness.  More so that this gift was given to man in the beginning of his creation, and ungrateful he rejected him with doing his will, removing himself from Ours.

 

“Now one who disposes herself to do our Volition prepares the post, the decency, the nobility where to be able to put this gift so great and infinite.  Our knowledges on the Fiat will help and will prepare her in a surprising way to receive this gift, and that which they have not obtained even today, they can obtain tomorrow.  Therefore I am doing as a king would do, who would like to elevate a family with bonds of relatives with his real family; in order to do this he first takes one member of them, he keeps her in his palace, raises her, feeds her together (with him), accustoms her with his noble ways, he entrusts her with his secrets, and in order to make her worthy of him he makes her live of his will, and in order to be more secure, and in order to not make her descend to the baseness of her family he makes for her the gift of his volition, so that she might hold it in her power.  That which the king can not do, but I can do it with bilocating my Will in order to make him a gift to the creature. “ Whence the king holds his eyes fixed over her, he goes always embellishing her, dresses her with precious and beautiful attire in a way that he feels enamored; and not being able to endure her at length anymore, he binds her with the lasting bond of marriage, in a way that the one becomes the gift of the other.  With this, both parts hold the right to reign, and that family acquires the bond of relatives with the king, and the king for love of she who has given herself to him, and that he himself is gifted to her, calls that family to live in his palace giving them the same gift that he has given to she whom he loves so much.  Thus have we done.  First, we have called one of the human family to live in the palace of our Volition; as soon as we made for her the gift of his knowledges, of his most intimate secrets.  In doing this we experience contentments and indescribable joys and we feel how sweet and dear [it is] to have the creature live in our Volition, and our love pushes us, indeed it coerces/rapes us to make her the gift of our omnipotent Fiat.  More so that [she] made for us the gift of hers, she already was in our power, and our Divine Will was able to be secure and at his post of honor in the creature.  Now after we have made the gift of our Fiat to a member of this human family, she acquires the bond and the right of this gift, because we never do works and make gifts for one alone, but when we do works and make gifts we always do them in a universal way; hence this gift will be ready for everyone, provided that they want it and dispose themselves.  Therefore the living in my Will is not property of the creature nor is it in her power, but it is a gift, and I do when I want, to whom I want, and in the times that I want.  He is a gift of heaven made by our great magnanimity and by our inextinguishable love.

 

“Now with this gift the human family will feel so bound with their Creator, that they won’t feel distant anymore from Him, but so near as if they might be of his same family and might cohabitate in his same palace.  With this gift they will feel so rich that they will no longer feel the miseries, the weaknesses, the riotous passions, but everything will be strength, peace, abundance of grace, and recognizing the gift they will say:  ‘In the house of my celestial Father there lacks nothing, I have everything at my disposition, always in virtue of the gift that I have received.’  We always give gifts by effect of our great love and from our highest magnanimity; if this might not be, or we might want to mind if the creature merits it or not, if she has made some sacrifices, then it would not be a gift anymore, but payment, and our gift would be rendered as right and slave of the creature.  While we and our gifts are not slaves of anyone.  In fact man didn’t exist yet, and before he was we already created the sky, the sun, the wind, the sea, the earth in bloom and all the rest in order to make a gift of it to man.  What had he done in order to merit gifts so great and perennial?  Nothing, and in the act of creating him we gave him the great gift that exceeded all the others, our omnipotent Fiat.  And although He rejected him, we however didn’t discontinue from giving him anymore.  No, but we hold Him on reserve in order to give Him to the children, the same gift that the father rejected from us.  The gift becomes given in the excess of our love, which is so much that he doesn’t know what to do, he doesn’t mind the accounts, while he gives the payment if the creature does good works, sacrifices herself, he gives with just measure and according to what she merits; not so in the gift.  Therefore one who will be able to doubt what it means does not understand our Divine Being nor our breadth, nor where our love can arrive.  However we want the correspondence of the creature, the gratitude and her little love.”

 

 

Lynne Bauer, JMJ