God's residence

⁵⁷ As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” ⁵⁸ And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”  Luke 9:57-58

This is one of the lines I've always wondered about that line when I was younger.  Of course Jesus had a home, he was raised in Nazareth and he always had someone who would take him in or where he would stay and that's hardly a proper response to someone who has just pledged themselves to him.  Something else is obviously going on here.  It was only with reading the Volumes that I've come to understand this better. 

“You must know that unique purpose why we created creation it was just this:  creation should serve as residence to man, and man should serve for our residence.

Vol. 35, Sept. 6, 1937



So with original sin God was cast out of his own residence, that is man,  and since that point has not had a place to "rest his head."  And then in the order of Creation it isn't until the creation of man that God is able to take his rest.



² And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done.
Genesis 2:2



Man was created with the intention of always living in unison with God.  God would keep man beautiful, preserving him always new.  And man would be the joy of God giving him always someone to give to, to share his immense goods and to reciprocate his love. 

...the creature was made that she should be our residence, and not her alone, but all created things, skies, sun, earth, everything, being works gone forth from our Supreme Heights, we hold the right to live (in) her, and with living (in) her we conserve her with beautiful decorum and always new, as in the act in which we brought her forth to the light.  Now the creature with not doing our Will puts us outside of our residence, and it happens to us as would happen to a rich Lord, that wanting to build a great and beautiful palace, when he has finished; he goes in order to live in it and they close the doors in (his) face, they throw stones at him, in a way that he is constrained to not put a foot inside, and to not be able to live in the same residence built by him, wouldn’t it merit that it be destroyed by he who has formed it?  But he doesn’t do it because he loves his work, but waits and re-awaits, who knows [that] he can conquer in love, and by herself she opens the doors to him in order to let him enter with giving him the liberty to let him live (there).  In such conditions the creature puts us with not letting our Will reign in her soul:  she closes the doors in our face and throws the stones of her faults against us.  And we with unconquered and divine patience wait, and she not wanting our Will in herself as life, with Paternal goodness we give her the effects of Him, that is the laws, the Sacraments, the Gospel, the helps of my examples and prayers to her, but for all this great good, not one can equal the great good that my Will can do as perennial life of the creature, because He is all (the) laws, Sacraments, Gospel, life together, he signifies all:  able to give everything, possesses everything, this is enough in order to be able to understand the great difference that there is between my Will as continuous life in the creature, and between his effects that he can not produce in a perennial way, but by circumstances, in time, in the Sacraments themselves.  And although the effects can do great goods, but they can never arrive to produce all the goods that the life of my Divine Will reigning and dominant in the creature can produce.  Therefore be attentive my daughter, and give him the holy liberty to do that which he wants in your soul.”

Vol. 30, May 30, 1932




Since man sinned and not only cast God out of his residence but got himself cast out of Eden as well God has been working with all his divine strategy to reclaim his creature.  And if he can not get man to accept his Will directly he uses indirect effects of his Will to reach man.

Hence all the acts and sufferings, prayers, breaths, heartbeats of mine that I did, my human will undergoing the life of the Divine Will it formed so many knots in order to retie human wills to mine; and since these human wills were as residences, some collapsed, others damaged and others reduced in rubble, my Divine Will, working in my Humanity with my acts prepared the helps in order to sustain the collapsed ones, in order to cement the damaged ones and in order to raise again over the same rubble the destroyed residences.  I did nothing for myself, I didn’t have any need; I did everything in order to redo, to rehabilitate human wills.  My only need was love and that I wanted to be loved in return.

Vol. 30, Nov. 4, 1931

In the Volumes Jesus teaches Luisa what is necessary for God's Will to once again take up residence in man and what the first step is to achieve this.

“My daughter, the main thing so that I may enter into a soul and form my dwelling is total detachment from everything.  Without this, not only can I not dwell in her, but not even any of the virtues can form its residence in the soul.

Vol. 2, Oct. 29, 1899



So we must not only be resigned to God's Will but it we must be detached from anything else which might take his place.  Sounds familiar doesn't it: 

² I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; ³ you shall have no other gods before me.
⁴ You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵ You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God,...
Exodus 20:2-5




In the very first commandment God is teaching us that which is most important so that he might resume his relationship with man.  But more is needed for man to receive the perennial indwelling of God and his Will within him.  Obedience to the law allows man to actively receive the effects of God's Will but man must also correspond to graces received in order to strengthen this growing relationship.

Be careful, you, o my daughter, to correspond to Me in the so many graces I am pouring into you, because correspondence is the open door to let Me enter into the heart and form my residence in it.  Correspondence is like that good welcome, that esteem, which is used with people when they come to visit us, in such a way that, drawn by that respect, by those affable manners used with them, they are forced to come again, and reach the point of not being able to detach themselves.  Everything is in corresponding to Me, and according to how souls correspond to Me and treat Me on earth, so will I behave with them in Heaven.  Making them find the doors open, I will invite the whole celestial court to welcome them, and I will place them on the most sublime throne; but it will be all the opposite for those who do not correspond to Me.”
Vol. 2, Aug. 2, 1899

But this relationship remains precarious as long as man holds on to  his own will and it only takes one act on the part of man to undo everything.

“My daughter, many times I delight in choosing souls, surrounding them with divine fortitude in such a way that no enemy may enter into them.  I establish in them my perpetual dwelling, and in this residence of mine I lower Myself, one could say, to the most minute services; I clean her up, I pull out all thorns from her, I destroy all the evil that the human nature has produced in her, and I plant in her all the beautiful and good things that can be found in Me, to the extent of forming the most beautiful garden of my delights, to be used at my pleasure and according to the circumstances of my glory and of the good of others; so much so, that it can be said that she no longer has anything of her own, but serves only as my dwelling.  Now, do you know what it takes to destroy all this?  One act contrary to my Will; and if you oppose my Will you will do all this.”

Vol. 4,  Dec. 30, 1902




But God tells us that this Kingdom will come despite anything that man can do to undo it.  To want something, on God's part, is the same as to do it.  And God has repeatedly promised us that he does want to restore this Kingdom and not only restore man to his place in his Divine Will but he will make him even better than he was in the beginning.

Whoever thinks that the Kingdom of our Will can not come, puts in doubt the Supreme Power itself.  We can do all, the volition can be lacking to us, but when we want it, our power is so much that that which we want we do, there is no thing that can resist before our Power.  Hence we have the power to rehabilitate him/(man), to make him more beautiful than before, and to strengthen and to cement his collapsed residence in a way as to make it stronger than it was, and with the puff of our power to enclose the thieves and his enemies in the dark abysses.

Vol. 30, April 2, 1932

Atheism, the non-believers

I've always had a difficult time with people who are atheist.  I could accept agnostics, or those who basically would say "I don't know", but to totally state that there is no God without even a shadow of a doubt that there could be something else out there that they simple can't understand has always bothered me.  I'd come to the conclusion that it was an act of extreme arrogance.  I've recently gained a new insight into this topic by a little light. 

I had been struggling with an encounter in which an atheist I know stated that he did not believe in ghosts but did believe in aliens.  I was dumbfounded that he could believe that there was a greater probability in aliens than that there could be a God.  I related this to some of my friends and one of them also agreed with him that he found it easier to believe in aliens than in God.  So I took a step back and thought there must be something else going on here than just arrogance.  This evening I was struck by the thought, which I believe came from Jesus to help me understand, that it's not just arrogance which leads people to reject God.   I don't know about all atheists but now believe that it is often centered in a fear of not being loved by God.


Even Luisa found it difficult to accept the idea of not recognizing God.

And my always lovable Jesus, moving in my interior, showed me the whole Creation. How much sublimeness! What magnificence! How many harmonies! What order! There is not one point, either in Heaven or on earth, in which God has not created something special and distinct – and with such mastery that the greatest scientists, before the smallest thing created by God, feel that all of their science and mastery is an absolute nothing compared to the things created by God, which are full of life and of motion. Oh! how true it is that to look at the universe and not to recognize God, not to love Him and not to believe in Him, is true folly! All created things are like many veils that hide Him; and God comes to us as though veiled in each created thing, because man is incapable of seeing Him unveiled in his mortal flesh. The love of God for us is so great, that in order not to dazzle us with His light, frighten us with His power, make us feel ashamed in front of His beauty, annihilated before His immensity, He veils Himself in the created things, so as to come in each created thing and be with us - even more, to make us swim in His very Life. My God, how much You have loved us, and how much You love us!

Vol. 17, June 3, 1925



And Jesus states that each of us has a choice to make, to open our eyes to the light that is around us or to keep our eyes shut and stumble in the darkness.

           “Take a look at how ungrateful men are to Me.  The light of the sun fills the whole earth, from one end to another, in such a way that there is no land which does not enjoy the benefit of its light, and there is no one who can complain about being without its beneficial influence.  In fact, investing the whole universe, the sun takes it as though in hand to be able to give light to all.  Only one who, escaping from its hand, goes to hide in dark places can complain of not enjoying its light; and yet, continuing its charitable office, the sun does not cease to send him a few glimmers of light through its fingers.  So is my Grace, an image of the sun, which inundates the people everywhere:  poor and rich, ignorant and learned, Christians and unbelievers - no one, no one can say he is without it, because the light of truth and the influence of my Grace fill the earth, more than the sun in its full midday.

           But what pain is mine in seeing people who, passing through this light with their eyes closed and confronting my Grace with the pestilent torrent of their iniquities, deviate from this light and live voluntarily in dark places, in the midst of cruel enemies?  They are exposed to a thousand dangers, because, not having light, they cannot know clearly whether they are in the midst of friends or enemies, and therefore shun the dangers that surround them.

           Ah, if the sun had reason and men were able to give this affront to its light, and some of them, to irritate its light and not to see it, reached such ingratitude as to pluck their eyes out so as to be more sure of living in darkness – ah!, instead of sending light, the sun would send laments and cries of sorrow, such as to turn all nature upside down!  Yet, that which one would have horror in doing to natural light, men reach such excess as to do to my Grace, treating it in this way.  But my Grace, always benign with them, in the midst of darkness itself and of the madness of their blindness, always sends glimmers of light, because my Grace never leaves anyone.  It is man who voluntarily goes out of it, and Grace, not having him within itself, tries to follow him with glimmers of its light.”

Vol. 3, March 9, 1900

Jesus calls those that chose blindness over his light and grace to be poor, unhappy, blind, deaf and mute cretins who live off the excrement of creation.

One who possesses my Divine Will has the eyesight to be able to recognize what belongs to my Will Itself. Man alone did not recognize Me, because he did not possess the eyesight and the fine sense of smell of my Will. I had to tell him in order to make Myself recognized; but with all my telling, many did not even believe Me, because one who does not possess my Divine Will is blind and deaf and without the sense of smell to be able to recognize what belongs to It. Not to possess It is the greatest unhappiness of the creature; he is the poor cretin, blind, deaf and mute, who, not possessing the light of my Divine Fiat, uses the very created things by taking the excrements which they release, while leaving inside of them the true good which they contain. What sorrow, to see creatures without the nobility of the life of my Divine Will.

Vol. 23, Oct. 6, 1927



Only to one who believes can see clearly.  We must chose to believe, chose to hope, and chose to love.

See, the Gospel is known to all, but who comprehends the meaning of my words, and the truths contained in It?  Who keeps them in his heart and makes of them a treasure with which to purchase the eternal kingdom?  One who believes.  As for all others, not only do they not understand a thing, but they use my words to mock them and to make fun of the holiest things.  So, it can be said that everything is written in the hearts of those who believe, hope and love, while nothing is written for everyone else.  The same with you:  one who has a little bit of belief sees things with clarity and finds the truth; one who does not, sees things as all confused.

Vol. 4, Jan. 9, 1903

If, on the other hand, they do not believe, it is even worse, because they are so blind as to not have the eyes to see the Sun of my word; and incredulity leads to obstinacy and to hardness of heart, while belief softens the heart and disposes it to let itself be subdued by grace, and to receive the sight in order to comprehend my truths.

Vol. 20, Feb. 9, 1927

This disbelief in a God who loves them is the first step toward sin which separates us from God.  By their logic, if God truly loved me than why is my life such a mess?  Why all this suffering and the suffering of innocents?  Why am I so sad and have to struggle all the time?  Love, in their minds, wouldn't allow for someone who loved them, who had omnipotent power, to permit them to suffer and struggle.  So in the end it is easier to say there is no God than to think, by their own logic, that there is a God but he obviously doesn't love me because my life is such a mess.  And Jesus told Luisa that this doubting of love of God for us is also exactly what led Adam and Eve into sin.  So all sin originates from this fear or doubt of the love of God for us and our lack of love for God.

In fact, do you want to know why Adam sinned? Because he forgot that I loved him, and he forgot to love Me. This was the first seed of his fall. Had he thought that I loved him very much and that he was obliged to love Me, he would never have decided to disobey Me. So, love ceased first, and then sin began; and as he ceased to love his God, true love toward himself also ceased. His members and powers rebelled against him; he lost dominion, order, and became fearful. Not only this, but true love toward other creatures ceased, while I had created him with the same love which reigned among the Divine Persons, by which one was to be the image of the other, the happiness, the joy and life of the other. This is why, in coming upon earth, the thing on which I placed greatest importance was that they love one another as they were loved by Me, in order to give them my first love, to let the love of the Most Holy Trinity hover over the earth. Therefore, in all your pains and privations, never forget that I love you very much, so as to never forget to love Me; and as daughter of Our Will, you have the task to love Me for all. In this way, you will remain in the order, and will fear nothing.”

Vol. 16, Sept. 6, 1923

“My daughter, my first Passion was of love, because the first step with which man, in sinning, gives himself to evil is the lack of love; so, since love is missing, he falls into sin.  In order to be repaid through Me for the lack of love of the creatures, love made Me suffer more than anyone; It almost crushed Me, more than if I were under a press.  It gave Me as many deaths for as many creatures receiving life. 

Vol. 11, Jan. 22, 1913



Jesus will have his victory where there will be no more doubt in believing in God.  When his kingdom is upon the earth no one be able to deny the existence of their Creator.

“My daughter, when my Will has Its Kingdom upon earth and souls live in It, Faith will have no more shadows, no more enigmas, but everything will be clarity and certainty. The light of my Will will bring in the very created things the clear vision of their Creator; creatures will touch Him with their own hands in everything He has done for love of them. The human will is now a shadow to Faith; passions are clouds that obscure the clear light of It, and it happens as to the Sun, when thick clouds form in the lower air: even though the Sun is there, the clouds advance against the light, and it seems it is dark as if it were nighttime; and if one had never seen the Sun, he would find it hard to believe that the Sun is there. But if an impetuous wind dispelled the clouds, who would dare to say that the Sun does not exist, as they would touch Its radiant light with their own hands? Such is the condition in which Faith finds Itself because my Will does not reign. They are almost like blind people that must rely on others to believe that a God exists. But when my Divine Fiat reigns, Its light will make them touch the existence of their Creator with their own hands; therefore, it will no longer be necessary for others to say it – the shadows and the clouds will exist no more.”
Vol. 24, June 29, 1928

 

I find it interesting that in the messages of our Lady of Medjugorje, which have been going on since 1981, there are monthly messages dedicated to calling non-believers back.  Those which Mirjana receive on the second of each month and the prayers said are specifically for non-believers.  It seems that there is a huge push on our Lady's part and therefore God's part too to reach all people.  And even our Lady refers to the fact that these people have not yet felt God's love for them.

 

"Our Lady defined a non-believer as someone who has yet to know or experience the love of God."

http://www.medjugorje.com/medjugorje/medjugorje-visionaries/583-mirjana.html 

 

The Third Rewnal

In the previous post it talked about how the heroes of the Old Testament mirrored specific virtues of God and how the Saints of the new Testament had to copy his Humanity, but now Jesus has said he wants to go further and create the Saints of the living in his Will.  The workings of God, in these people, will surpass the Saints that have gone before and they will be the symbol of his Resurrection.  Living in his Will will bring true peace and joy that which was not even enjoyed by those who were with Jesus while he was on earth.  

 

Major things are done after minor ones, and are the fulfillment and crowning of those.  The resurrected Humanity of Jesus, symbol of  those who will live in the Divine Will.
 

I was fusing myself in the Holy Will of my always lovable Jesus, and together with my Jesus, my intelligence was wandering in the work of Creation, adoring and thanking the Supreme Majesty for everything and for everyone.  And my Jesus, all affability, told me: 

“My daughter, in creating the heavens, first I created the stars as minor spheres, and then I created the sun, major sphere, endowing it with such light as to eclipse all the stars, as though hiding them within itself, constituting it king of the stars and of all nature.  It is my usual way to do minor things first, as preparation for major ones, and these, as crowning of the minor things.  The sun, while being my relater, also veils the souls who will form their sanctity in my Will; the Saints who lived in the mirror of my Humanity and as though in the shadow of my Will, will be the stars; the former souls, though later in time, will be the suns. 

“I maintained this order also in Redemption.  My birth was without clamor; on the contrary, it was neglected; my childhood was without splendor of great things before men; my life in Nazareth was so hidden that I lived as if ignored by all; I adapted Myself to do the littlest and most common things of the human life.  During my public life there were a few things that were great; but, still, who knew my Divinity?  No one, not even all the Apostles.  I passed through the crowds like any other man; so much so, that anyone could come close to Me, talk to Me, and if needed, even despise Me.” 

And I, interrupting the speaking of Jesus, said:  ‘Jesus, my Love, how happy those times were, and happier those people who, by just wanting it, could come close to You, talk to You, and be with You.’ 

And Jesus:  “Ah! my daughter, only my Will brings true happiness.  It alone encloses all goods in the soul, and making Itself crown around the soul, It constitutes her queen of true happiness.  Only these souls will be the queens of my throne, because they are a birth from my Will.  This is so true, that those people were not happy; many saw Me, but did not know Me, because my Will did not reside within them as center of life.  Therefore, even if they saw Me, they remained unhappy; and only those who received the good of receiving the seed of my Will in their hearts disposed themselves to receive the good of seeing Me resurrected.

“Now, the portent of my Redemption was the Resurrection, which, more than refulgent sun, crowned my Humanity, making even my littlest acts shine, with such splendor and marvel as to make Heaven and earth to be astonished; It will be the beginning, the foundation and the fulfillment of all goods - crown and glory of all the Blessed.  My Resurrection is the true Sun, which worthily glorifies my Humanity; It is the Sun of the Catholic Religion; It is the glory of every Christian.  Without the Resurrection, it would have been as though heavens without sun, without heat and without life.

“Now, my Resurrection is symbol of the souls who will form their sanctity in my Will.  The Saints of these past centuries are symbols of my Humanity; although resigned, they did not have continuous attitude in my Will, therefore they did not receive the mark of the Sun of my Resurrection, but the mark of the works of my Humanity before my Resurrection.  Therefore, they will be many; almost like stars, they will form for Me a beautiful ornament to the Heaven of my Humanity.  But the Saints of the living in my Will, who will symbolize my resurrected Humanity, will be few.  In fact, many throngs and crowds of people saw my Humanity before Its death, but few saw my resurrected Humanity - only the believers, those who were most disposed and, I could say, only those who contained the seed of my Will.  In fact, if they did not have it, they would have lacked the necessary sight to be able to see my resurrected and glorious Humanity, and therefore be spectators of my ascent into Heaven.

“Now, if my Resurrection symbolizes the Saints of the living in my Will - and this, with reason, because each act, word, step, etc. done in my Will is a divine resurrection that the soul receives; it is a mark of glory that she undergoes; it is to go out of herself in order to enter the Divinity, and to hide within the refulgent Sun of my Volition; and in It she loves, works, thinks - what is the wonder if the soul remains fully risen and identified with the very Sun of my glory, and symbolizes my resurrected Humanity?  But few are those who dispose themselves to this, because souls, even in sanctity, want something of their own good; while the Sanctity of living in my Will has nothing – nothing of its own, but everything is of God; and in order for souls to dispose themselves to this, to stripping themselves of their own goods, it takes too much.  Therefore, they will not be many.  You are not in the number of the many, but of the few; therefore be always attentive to the call, and to your continuous flight.”

Vol. 12, April 15, 1919

 

This Sanctity will be immune from self interest as it will originate from God's Will and man's will bow before it.  They will be necessary in the dark times to come so that there will be a way for Jesus to pour out his love and grace to creatures without being limited or frustrated by man's will frustrating Jesus' work.

 

“This was the sanctity of my Humanity on earth, and therefore It did everything, and for everyone, without a shadow of interest.  Self-interest takes away the mark of divine sanctity, therefore it can never be sun; at the most, as beautiful as it is, it can be a star.  This is why I want the sanctity of living in my Will in these times so sad - this generation needs these suns, which may warm it, illuminate it, fecundate it.  The disinterest of these terrestrial angels, all for the good of others, without a shadow of their own self, will open the way in their hearts to receive my grace.

“And then, churches are few and many will be destroyed; many times I find no priests who may consecrate Me; other times they allow unworthy souls to receive Me, and worthy souls not to receive Me; others are unable to receive Me; so, my love finds itself hindered.  This is why I want to make the sanctity of living in my Will; in them, I will have no need of priests for Me to be consecrated, nor churches, tabernacles or hosts; but they will be everything together:  priests, churches, tabernacles and hosts.  My love will be more free; anytime I want to consecrate Myself, I will be able to do it - in every moment, day and night, in whatever place they might be.  Oh! how my love will have its complete outpouring.  Ah! my daughter, the present generation deserved to be destroyed completely; and if I will allow a little something to be left of it, it is to form these suns of the sanctity of living in my Will, who, on my example, will repay Me for all that other creatures, past, present and future, owed Me.  Then will the earth give Me true glory, and my ‘Fiat Voluntas Tua on earth as it is in Heaven’ will have its completion and fulfillment.”

Vol. 12, Nov. 27, 1917

 

 

Jesus states that this will be a renewal of the world and that this has occurred before.  Every two thousand years there has been a renewal of the world and this will make the third.  Before each renewal there has been a general confusion which is a preparation before the coming gift.  Now he is preparing the world for the gift of his Will.

 

 

 

 

“My beloved daughter, I want to make known to you the order of my Providence.  Every course of two thousand years I have renewed the world.  In the first two thousand years I renewed it with the Flood; in the second two thousand I renewed it with my coming upon earth, in which I manifested my Humanity, from which, as though from many fissures, my Divinity shone forth.  And the good and the very Saints of the following two thousand years have lived of the fruits of my Humanity, and, in drops, they have enjoyed my Divinity.  Now we are at the turn of the third two thousand years, and there will be a third renewal.  This is the reason for the general confusion - it is nothing other than the preparation for the third renewal; and if in the second renewal I manifested what my Humanity did and suffered, and very little of what the Divinity was operating, now, in this third renewal, after the earth has been purged and the current generation destroyed for the most part, I will be even more generous with creatures, and I will accomplish the renewal by manifesting what my Divinity did within my Humanity; how my Divine Will acted with my human will; how everything remained linked within Me; how I did and redid everything, and even one thought of each creature was redone by Me and sealed with my Divine Volition.  My love wants its outpouring, and wants to make known the excesses which my Divinity operated in my Humanity for the good of creatures, which surpass by far the excesses that my Humanity operated externally.  This is also why I often speak to you about the living in my Will, which I have not manifested to anyone until now.  At the most, they have known the shadow of my Will, the grace, the sweetness that doing It contains; but to penetrate inside of It, to embrace immensity, to multiply oneself with Me and penetrate everywhere, even while being on earth, both into Heaven and into the hearts, to lay down the human ways and act with the divine ways - this is not yet known; so much so, that not to a few will it appear strange, and those who do not keep their minds open to the light of truth will not understand a thing.  But I, little by little, will make my way, manifesting now one truth, now another, of this living in my Will, so that they will end up comprehending It. 

Vol. 12, Jan. 29, 1919