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Walking With Jesus-Divine Will Calendar From The Writings of Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta

August 26, 1908
Constancy in good makes Divine Life grow in the soul– Volume 8

Luisa- As I was in my usual state, I was all afflicted and almost dazed because of the usual privations. Then He came, just in
passing, and told me:

Jesus- “My daughter, that which I want you to take to heart is constancy in good, both internal and
external, because the repetition of the act of loving Me, of many interior acts and of constant good, makes Divine Life
grow ever more in the soul – but with such energy, that she can be compared to a child who, growing in good air and with
healthy foods, keeps growing well, in full health, until he reaches his proper stature, without needing either doctors or
medicines. Even more, he is so robust and strong, that he relieves and helps others.
On the other hand, one who is not constant grows like a child who is not always fed with healthy foods and lives
in putrid air. He grows sickly, and since his members do not have the strength to develop and grow due to lack of good
nourishment, they develop with defects; and so a tumor forms in one place, an abscess in another. He walks with a limp,
he speaks with difficulty; one can say that he is a poor cripple. Though one can see good members mixed in, those with
defects are more; and even though he consults doctors and takes medicines, they do him little or no good, because his
blood is infected by the putrid air, and his members are weak and defective from malnutrition. So, he will be a man, but he
will not reach a proper stature, and will always need help, without being able to help others. Such is the inconstant soul.
With inconstancy in good, it is as if the soul nourished herself with foods which are not good; and by applying herself to
other things which are not God, it is as if she breathed putrid air. So, Divine Life grows with difficulty and poorly,
because It lacks the strength and the vigor of constancy.”

Scripture Meditation- ¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; never be conceited. ¹⁷ Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. ¹⁸ If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all. ¹⁹ Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” ²⁰ No, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head.” ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:14-21).

Prayer Reflection- O Lord we bless You, we adore You, and we worship You because You remind us that we are to be constant in doing good. It is easy to do good one day and not so good the next day. Patient now because it’s a good day, flying off the handle the next because circumstances dictate, in my puny human will not connected to Yours mind, that I’m somehow justified. To be constant in good is to not think of ourselves but to think of You at all times. To perform acts of love interiorly for You and acts of love for our neighbor out of love for You exteriorly. Easy to describe, hard to do if we are trying to do it all under our own power. But Lord, You give us the secret. You talk about how it is that we are fed. Are we fed the healthy food of Your Word and the Divine Will or are we fed what the world has to offer. We know we can become unhealthy pretty quickly if we feed ourselves junk yet for so many of us that is what we do as we doom scroll our lives away. Yet it is in meditating on Your Word, including readings like Roman 12 which basically gives a job description for the Christian, and reading the Book of Heaven where we learn who You are but more importantly who we are and whose we are! So let us repeat our acts of love for You Lord united to Your One Divine Act and watch as Your Divine Life grows in our souls bit by bit! Fiat!