JOURNEY INTO THE DIVINE WILL

 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. (Colossians 3:15)

Volume 36-November 13, 1938

Sign to know whether we live in the Divine Will.

Then, I was thinking to myself: ‘How can one know whether he is living in the Divine Will?’ And my sweet Jesus added: “My daughter, it is easy to know it. You must know that, when my Divine Fiat reigns in the soul, It holds Its operating and continuous act, nor can it be without doing anything. It is life, and life must breathe, move, palpitate, make itself felt. It must have Its primary operating act, and the creature feels Its empire and follows Its acts, almost continuously, in the Divine Will. Hence, continuation is a sure sign that one lives in It. With this continuation the creature feels the need of the Divine breathing, motion and attitude. Therefore, if she interrupts her continuous acts, she feels as though she is missing the life, motion and everything, and immediately she resumes her continuous acts, because she knows that it would cost her too much not to continue her acts. It would cost her the Divine Life, and one who has possessed It can hardly let It go.
Now, this operating of the creature in the Divine Will – do you know what it is? It is the unfolding of the Life of my Will in the creature, because only my Will has the virtue of never stopping in Its continuous acts. If It stopped – which can never be – everyone and everything would remain as though paralyzed and without life. Now, the creature by herself does not possess this virtue of operating continuously, but when she is united with my Will, she has the virtue, the strength, the will and the love to do it. How my Will can change things – as long as the creature lets herself be carried and possessed by It, It can make such changes that she no longer recognizes herself, if she retains at all a distant memory of her past life.
There is also another sign. When my Will sees the soul disposed, in order to reign It first embalms her will and her pains with an air of peace; then It forms Its Throne in them. Therefore, one who lives in my Will possesses a strength that is never extinguished; a love that, while she does not love anyone, she loves everyone in God with true love – and to how many sacrifices she exposes herself for all and for each one in particular! Poor daughter, she is the true martyr and victim of all. Oh! how many times, in seeing her suffering, I look at her with such tenderness and compassion, and to cheer her up I say to her: ‘My daughter, you have received my same lot. Poor daughter, courage, your Jesus loves you more.’ And she, in feeling loved more by Me, smiles in her pains and abandons herself in my arms. My daughter, to experience, to possess what my Will can do, one needs to be inside of It. Otherwise they will not understand a thing.” Fiat