JOURNEY INTO THE DIVINE WILL

From The Writings of Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

One who wants everything from God must give all of himself to God.

April 29, 1902
One who wants everything from God must give all of himself to God.
This morning my adorable Jesus came for a little, telling me: “My daughter, one who wants everything
from God must give all of himself to God.”

And He stopped, without telling me anything else for the time
being. Seeing Him close to me, I said to Him: ‘Lord, have compassion on me; don’t You see how everything is
dry and withered? It seems to me that I have become so dry, as if I had never received a drop of rain.’

And He:
“So much the better. Don’t you know that the drier the wood, the more easily the fire devours it and converts it
into fire? One spark alone is enough to ignite it. But if it is full of humors and not well dried, it takes a big fire
to ignite it, and much time to convert it into fire. The same in the soul: when everything is dry, one spark alone
is enough to convert her completely into fire of divine love.”

And I: ‘Lord, You are making fun of me. How
ugly, then, everything is; and besides, what do You have to burn if everything is dry?’

And He: “I am not
making fun of you; you yourself cannot comprehend that when not everything is dry in the soul, complacency is
a humor, satisfaction is a humor, one’s own taste is a humor, self-esteem is a humor. On the other hand, when
everything is dry and the soul operates, these humors have no place from which to arise, and the Divine Fire,
finding only the soul naked, as dry as she was created by It, with no other extraneous humors, since it is
something that belongs to It, it is extremely easy for It to convert her into Its very Divine Fire. And after this, I
infuse in her a garment of peace, and this peace is preserved by interior obedience, and kept by external
obedience. This peace gives birth to the whole of God within the soul – that is, to all the works, the virtues and
the ways of the Humanate Word – in such a way that one can see in her His simplicity, His humility, the
dependency of His infantile life, the perfection of His adult virtues, the mortification and the crucifixion of His
dying. But it always begins from this: one who wants the whole of Christ must give everything to Christ.”

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 it is in dryness when we can’t even feel Your Presence that You are able to really transform us. Yet how many of us have these “humors” which get in the way- our own tastes and our own self esteem. We really think life is good when all is going our way but we are often too full of ourselves to make any room for You! As Bruce Springsteen used to sing, you can’t start a fire without a spark and that spark is our total self giving no matter our feelings or our circumstances. So let Your Divine Fire find us totally stripped of ourselves so that You would set us on fire and infuse in us a garment of peace and interior and exterior obedience. To allow us to truly transform us into You. So let us be at peace, even if we are just dancing in the dark!