JOURNEY INTO THE DIVINE WILL

From the Writings of Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

January 1, 1929 The gift that Jesus wants.

I was thinking about what I could offer to little Baby Jesus as gift for the first day of the year. ‘Would it not be good to give Him my will again as a little footstool at His little feet, or as an amusement in His tiny little hands?’ But while I was thinking about this, my little Jesus made Himself seen in my interior, telling me: “My daughter, your will is already mine, nor are you the master of it any longer, having given it to Me so many times. And I keep it now as footstool, now as amusement in my hands, and now I enclose it in my Heart as the most beautiful conquest and as the secret joy that soothes my many pains. Do you want to know what I would like as gift on this day? All your acts which you have done in my Will during this year. These acts will be as many suns which you will place around Me, and I – oh! how content I will be in seeing that the little daughter of my Divine Volition has given Me the many suns of her acts as gift; and I, in return, will give you the grace to double these suns of your acts done in my Will, to give you the field to be able to offer Me a gift yet more beautiful and rich.”

Then He added: “My daughter, each manifestation I have given you about my Divine Will is like a page of your life; and if you knew how many goods these pages enclose…. Each of them is a current between Heaven and earth, it is one more sun that will shine over the heads of all. These pages will be the heralds of the Celestial Fatherland; they are steps which my Divine Volition takes in order to draw near the creatures. Therefore, these manifestations about It, like pages of life, will form an epoch for the future generations, in which they will read the Kingdom of my Fiat, the many steps It took to come into their midst, and the new rights It gave them to make them enter again into Its Kingdom. My manifestations are decrees, and only when I want to give that good which I manifest, then do I move to manifest a knowledge. Therefore, everything I have told you about my Divine Will is divine capitals that I issued; therefore, they will be the most beautiful pages of your life, which will enclose the long history of my Will, and braiding the history of the world, will form the most beautiful epoch of all centuries.”

Scripture Meditation-  I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. ² Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:1-2).

Reflection- O Lord we bless You, we adore You, and we love You because the only gift You want from us are the little pebbles of our wills given to You with our little acts united to Yours which form Suns! We have no idea how many, all that we know is that if we give our fiat each morning it is done! Even if we forget, You make up for what we lack. Let us be transformed by the constant renewal of our minds, our intellects, memories, and our wills and may these acts in Your Will form new pages in our lives! Fiat!