Rags of the Human Will

 

In a message given to Luz de Maria Jesus says that part of the strategy of evil is to cause man to fear to cast aside his rags.  I heard this interpreted as referring to the face masks which have been mandated and the distancing from one another for fear of spreading disease.  Truly this may be so but I also believe that there is another meaning to this message which has a deeper more profound level as is often the case with God.

This is the strategy of evil, expressed by those who represent the Antichrist, who is sending you the winds of his presence on Earth. He is spreading the fear of fraternal encounter during this time of walking towards the culmination of the fulfilment of the Mission that My Father entrusted to Me for the Redemption of the human race: fear so that My People would not leave behind the disgusting rags with which they are laden and which they flaunt. 

Luz de Maria – You Are So Close to the Events

In messages given to Luisa Piccarreta, Mary refers to the rags of one's human will as being the cause of fears and doubts.  Jesus confirms that fears and doubts can not come from the Divine Will but only from the human will referring to them as miserable rags.

Now, my child, listen to your Mama.  Oh! how my Heart grieves in seeing you weak, poor; nor do you have the true dominion of dominating yourself.  Fears, doubts, apprehensions, are the things that dominate you – all miserable rags of your human will.  But do you know why?  Because the life of the Divine Will, intact, is missing in you, which, putting to flight all the evils of the human will, may render you happy and fill you with all the goods It possesses. 

The Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of the Divine Will, Day Three,  The Third Step of the Divine Will in the Queen of Heaven. 

 

I was feeling oppressed, and a thought wanted to disturb the serenity of my mind: ‘And if you found yourself at the point of death, and doubts and fears came to you about the way you conducted yourself during your life, to the point of making you doubt about your salvation – what would you do?’ But as I was thinking about this, my sweet Jesus gave me no time to reflect any further, or to answer my thought. Moving in my interior, He made Himself seen shaking His head; and as though saddened by my thought, He told me: “My daughter, what are you saying? To think about this is an affront to my Will. Neither fears, nor doubts, nor any danger at all, can enter into It. These are things which do not belong to It; rather, they are the miserable rags of the human will. My Will is like a placid sea that murmurs peace, happiness, safety, certainty; and the waves It releases from Its bosom are waves of joys and of contentments without end. Therefore, in seeing you think about this, I was shaken. My Will is not capable of fears, of doubts, of danger, and the soul who lives in It becomes estranged to the miserable rags of the human will. And besides, what could my Will fear? Who can ever raise doubts about Its operating, if before the Sanctity of my operating Will all tremble and are forced to lower their foreheads, adoring the operating of my Will? 

Vol. 17, June 29, 1925

Jesus states that anything that comes from the human will is tattered and can only bring dishonor to the soul and is an insult before the Divine Will.  God wants to endow the creature with all of his riches in his Divine Will but she must lay down all her rags and wash herself first.  This is the truth of "blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," Matt 5:3 for only by recognizing our poverty can we lay down our rags and be filled with God's kingdom.

I was all concerned, with the addition that I saw myself as so bad that only Jesus can know the miserable state of my soul.  And my sweet Jesus, all goodness, told me:

 “My daughter, why do you oppress yourself?  Do you know how one’s own things are in my Will?  They are like many miserable rags and tatters, which give more dishonor than honor to the soul, and remind her that she used to be a poor one, and possessed not even one garment that was whole.  When I want to call a soul into my Will, that she may establish her dwelling in It, I act like a great lord who would want to take one of the poorest women into his palace, so that, laying down her clothes as a poor one, she may be clothed according to his condition, living together with him, and sharing in all of his goods.  Now, this lord goes around all the streets of the city, and as he finds one of the poorest women, homeless, without a bed, covered only with filthy rags, he takes her and brings her to his palace as triumph of his charity.  However, he orders her to lay down her rags, to clean herself and to clothe herself with the most beautiful garments; and in order to keep no memory of her poverty, to burn her rags.  In fact, since he is extremely rich, he does not admit anything into his house which gives of poverty.  Now, if the poor one sadly misses her rags, and afflicts herself because she has brought nothing of her own, would she not offend the goodness, the magnanimity of that lord?

“So I am; and if that lord goes around one city, I go around the whole world, and maybe all generations; and wherever I find the littlest, the poorest one, I take her and place her in the eternal sphere of my Volition, saying to her:  ‘Work together with Me in my Will.  What is mine is yours.  If you have something of your own - lay it down, because in the sanctity and in the immense riches of my Will, it is nothing but miserable rags.

“Wanting to have one’s own merits is of servants, of slaves - not of sons and daughters.  What belongs to the father, belongs to his children.  Besides, what are all the merits that you could acquire compared to one single act of my Will?  All merits have their own little value, weight and measure, but who could ever measure one single act of my Will?  No one - no one.  And then, what are your merits compared to mine?  In my Will you will find them all, and I make of you the owner.  Aren’t you happy?

Vol. 13, January 20, 1922 

More than just being clothed in miserable rags, doing one's own will causes one to not only loose the likeness of God but the creature even acquires a diabolical likeness instead.

I comprehended with such clarity what an act of human will means, compared to an act of Divine Will, and how the soul, by doing her own will, loses the physiognomy of her Creator; and stripping herself of the beauty with which she was created, she clothes herself with miserable rags, she barely drags herself in good, she acquires the diabolical likeness, she feeds herself with dirty foods. My Jesus, give us all the grace never to do our own will, which is like calling all passions back to life.

Vol. 18, February 11, 1926 

It is like a king who abandons all his riches to live in squalor or what I believe is even worse living of the human will causes one to grow without the likeness of God instead reinforcing the reflections of themselves.

...one who lives of human will is always turned toward herself, and by her looking at herself, the human will keeps uncovering for her what is human, and places her in the reflections of what exists in the low world, in such a way that it can be said that she lives of earth and grows without the likeness of the One who created her. There is such difference between one and the other, that if creatures could see it, all would love and yearn to live in my Fiat, and they would abhor living of human will, and would hold it as the greatest misfortune, which makes them lose the purpose and the origin for which they were created. It would happen as to a king who lays down his crown, his royal garments, descends from his throne, and clothes himself with dirty rags, feeds himself with filthy foods and lives in a stable together with the beasts of his passions. Would the lot of this one not to be cried over? Such is the one who lets himself be dominated his human will.”

Vol. 27, February 6, 1930

And again Jesus states that first a creature must lay down her rags, be purified, sanctified, and embellished before admitting her into his Volition, to restore the Divine likeness in her in order to live with her and in her.

 

“Now, you must know that we love the creature a great deal, but in spite that we love her we don’t tolerate that she be together with us indecent, dirty, without beauty, nude, or else covered with miserable rags, it would not be worthy of our Supreme Majesty to have children that don’t resemble us and that in some way are dressed well, with the regal attire of our Fiat.  It would be like a king that holds his army and his subjects poorly dressed, covered with filth to make one disgust to look at them, some blind, some lame, some deformed; would it not be (a) dishonor to this king to be surrounded by an army of miserable ones to make one pity?  Would not one condemn the king who did not take care to form an army worthy of him, in a way that everyone should admire not only to look at the majesty of the king, but also the order, the beauty of the army, the flowering of the young people, the way how they are dressed?  Would it not be (an) honor of the king to be surrounded by ministers, by (an) army that one takes pleasure in looking at them?

“Now our invincible love, with infinite wisdom, wanting to deal with the creature face to face, has disposed to give my Will to her, so that with his light he embellishes them, with his love he dresses them, with his sanctity he sanctifies them.  You see, therefore, how necessary it is that our Will reign in the creature, because he alone holds (the) power of purifying her and embellishing her, in a way as to form our divine army; and we will feel honored in living with them, and in them; they will be our children who surround us dressed with our regal attire, embellished with our likeness.

“Therefore our Will first purifies, sanctifies, embellishes and then he admits them into our Volition to have life together with us.  More so that, as the creature enters into our Volition so much is our love, that our divine being rains on her his rain of love, and in seeing her so very loved by us everyone races around her: angels, saints, in order to love her.  The creation itself exults with joy in seeing our Will triumphant in that creature and rains love on her.  And oh, how beautiful it is to see, that everyone loves her!  And she feels so thankful in seeing herself loved by everyone, that she loves everyone.”

Vol 36, December 28, 1938

Jesus' true aim in the Redemption was always the rejoining from the split between the human will and the Divine and then repairing and healing the effects of the offenses themselves.  Jesus allowed himself to be stripped of his own garments and even of his skin to repair for original sin where man stripped himself of his royal garments to clothe himself in the miserable rags of his human will.  He lost the enchantment which allowed him to look at nothing but his God and turned his focus to himself.  Jesus poured out enough blood in this scourging in order to wash man, warm him and clothe him in the new garment of His own blood to dispose him to receive again the royal garment of the Divine Will.

And my lovable Jesus, coming out of my interior in the state He was in when He was scourged, told me: “My daughter, do you want to know why I was stripped when I was scourged? In each mystery of my Passion, first I occupied Myself with joining the split between the human will and the Divine, and then with the offenses which this split produced. When man, in Eden, broke the bonds of the union between the Supreme Will and his will, he stripped himself of the royal garments of my Will, and clothed himself with the miserable rags of his will – weak, inconstant, impotent to doing anything good. My Will was a sweet enchantment for him, which kept him absorbed within a most pure light, which made him know nothing but His God, from whom he had come, and who gave him nothing but innumerable happinesses. And he was so absorbed within the so much giving of his God to him, that he would give not a thought to himself. Oh! how happy man was, and how the Divinity delighted in giving him so many particles of His Being for as many as the creature can receive, in order to make him similar to Himself. So, as soon as he broke the union of Our Will with his, he lost the royal garment, he lost the enchantment, the light, the happiness. He looked at himself without the light of my Will, and in looking at himself without the enchantment which kept him absorbed, he came to know himself, he felt ashamed, he became afraid of God; so much so, that his very nature felt the sad effects of this: he felt the cold and his nakedness, and felt the vital need to cover himself. Just as Our Will kept him within the port of immense happinesses, so did his will put him in the port of miseries. Our Will was everything for man, and in It he found everything. It was right that, having come out of Us and living in Our Will as Our tender child, he would live of It; and this Will was to make up for everything he needed. Therefore, as he wanted to live of his own will, he became needy of everything, because the human will does not have the power to make up for all needs, nor does it contain the fount of good within itself. So, he was forced to procure for himself, with hardship, the necessary things of life. Do you see, then, what it means not to be united with my Will? Oh! if all knew It, they would have one yearning alone: that my Will come to reign upon earth. So, had Adam not withdrawn from the Divine Will, his nature also would have had no need of clothing; he would not have felt ashamed of his nakedness, nor would he have been subject to suffering cold, heat, hunger, weakness. But these natural things were almost nothing; rather, they were symbols of the great good which his soul had lost.

Therefore, my daughter, before being tied to the pillar to be scourged, I wanted to be stripped in order to suffer and repair for the nakedness of man when he stripped himself of the royal garment of my Will. I felt such confusion and pain within Me in seeing Myself stripped in the midst of enemies who were mocking Me, that I cried over the nakedness of man and I offered my nakedness to my Celestial Father, so that man might be clothed once again with the royal garment of my Will. And as ransom, so that this would not be denied to Me, I offered my blood, my flesh torn to shreds, and I let Myself be stripped not only of my garments, but also of my skin, to be able to pay the price and satisfy for the crime of this nakedness of man. I poured out so much blood in this mystery, that in no other did I pour so much – so much as to be enough to cover him with a second garment, a garment of blood, so as to cover him again, and then warm him and wash him, to dispose him to receive the royal garment of my Will.”

On hearing this, surprised, I said: ‘My beloved Jesus, how can it be possible that, because he withdrew from your Will, man felt the need to clothe himself, was ashamed, was afraid; but then, You always did the Will of the Celestial Father, You were One with Him, your Mama never knew Her own will - yet, the two of You had need of clothing and food, and You felt the cold and the heat?’ And Jesus added: “Yet, my daughter, it is precisely so. If man felt ashamed of his nakedness and was subject to many natural miseries, it was precisely because he lost the sweet enchantment of my Will; and even though it was his soul that did evil, not his body, the body, however, indirectly was as though accomplice with the wicked will of man, and so his nature remained as though profaned by the bad volition of man. Therefore both the soul and the body had to feel the pain of the evil committed. As for Me, indeed I always did the Supreme Will, but I did not come to find an innocent man, a man before sin; rather, I came to find a sinful man and with all his miseries. And so I had to associate Myself with men, taking upon Myself all of their evils, and subjecting Myself to all the necessities of life, as if I were one of them. However, in Me there was this prodigy: if I wanted, I would need nothing, either clothing, or food or anything else. But I did not want to make use of it out of love for man. I wanted to sacrifice Myself in everything, even in the most innocent things created by Me, in order to prove my ardent love to him. Even more, this served to impetrate from my Divine Father that out of regard for Me and for my will completely sacrificed to Him, He would give back to man the noble royal garment of Our Will.”

Vol. 16, January 14, 1924

In the message to Luz Jesus states that people are in fear of leaving behind the disgusting rags with which they are laden.  I believe that the deeper meaning of this is man's fear to leave behind the rags of his human will, the rags of his needing to be in control, the rags of his needing to understand and of his pride in needing to be seen and acknowledged for his efforts.

 fear so that My People would not leave behind the disgusting rags with which they are laden and which they flaunt. 

Luz de Maria – You Are So Close to the Events

In Eden we cast aside the royal garments of the Divine Will to live with the sad effects of the rags of the human will casting aside the likeness with our God as well.  Although I do believe that we must stand up against the schemes of the devil we must also accept all things as either coming from the active or permissive Will of God.  It seems to me that in losing the likeness of our Creator it is a just consequence/chastisement that we would now cover our our faces and lose our own likenesses behind ridiculous cloth masks.   All things can be used to repair the breech and we can use this too, joined to Jesus' Reparations especially in his strippings and the scourging to repair for the lose of the royal garments of the Divine Will and to restore the Kingdom of His Divine Will.

Jesus, I Trust in You, Divine Will and Divine Mercy

The message of Divine Mercy is inseparable from trust in Jesus.  "Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that the graces of His mercy are dependent upon our trust. The more we trust in Jesus, the more we will receive."  The Message of Divine Mercy

Also in the Volumes on the Divine Will trust is crucial and Jesus repeats this often to Luisa, but he also expounds on why and how it is important and on how he facilitates creatures trust.

“My daughter, there is no one who can stand before my Majesty and purity; rather, all are forced to be terrified and struck by the thunderbolt of my sanctity.  Man would almost want to flee from Me, because his misery is such and so great, that he does not have the courage to stand before the Divine Being.  And here is why, giving the field to my mercy, I took on my Humanity which, tempering the rays of the Divinity, is the means to infuse in man trust and courage to come to Me.  Placing himself before my Humanity, which spreads temperate rays of the Divinity, man has the good of being able to purify, sanctity and even divinize himself in my very deified Humanity.   

Therefore, you - remain always before my Humanity, keeping it as a mirror through which you will clean all of your stains; not only this, but as a mirror through which, by reflecting yourself in it, you will acquire beauty, and little by little you will keep adorning yourself in my own likeness.  In fact, it is a property of a mirror to make an image appear within it, similar to that of the one who is reflecting himself in it.  If such is the material mirror, much more so the divine, because my Humanity serves man as mirror in order to reflect my Divinity.  And here is how all goods come to man from my Humanity.”
Vol. 3, August 1, 1900

My lovable Jesus made Himself seen as a little child who, all clinging to me, made me many loving cuddles. Oh, how beautiful it is to see Him in His baby Humanity, all love, all trust! The soul feels so much trust in being with Jesus, because she sees His Humanity in Him, which is so much like her that they join together like brothers, they identify themselves with each other, and one is transformed into the other. So, the veil of the Humanity of Jesus, in which He encloses His adorable Divinity, serves as a means of trust, by which the poor creature loses all fear, and remains all love with Jesus - more than a son in the arms of his Celestial Father. The love of Jesus is so great, that He says to the creature: ‘Do not fear, I am yours - similar to you, clothed like you; and my love is so great, that I hide the endless light of my majesty within my Humanity so as to have you be with Me like a little child in my arms.’ On the other hand, when my beloved Jesus makes His Divinity shine through Himself, His very Humanity is eclipsed within that endless light, and I feel the great distance between myself and my Creator. His blazing divine majesty annihilates me, I plunge myself into my dust; and not knowing where to go to escape His light, because there is no point at which it is not present, my little atom remains submerged within His very light.

Vol. 24, August 30, 1928



Jesus knows that without his intervention man can not stand before God.  It is only through the Mercy expressed in and through the Humanity of Jesus that we can dare approach with trust the Divinity of God.  Without this Mercy of God which diffuses and as veils his brilliance we would remain crushed and would flee such perfection.  But when we look at ourselves in Jesus we can copy little by little his attributes in ourselves, each time bringing us closer to his Divinity.  In fact even with the filter of the Humanity of Jesus he will even go further in his Mercy by hiding from ourselves certain defects which would keep us from approaching him with full trust.  He does this so that we don't distance ourselves from him which ends up paralyzing or even killing the growth of his life in us.  Truly sometimes ignorance is bliss.

 See, I love so much that souls be with Me in full trust, that many times I hide some defect or imperfection of theirs, or some lack of correspondence to my grace, so as not to give them any occasion to not be with Me in full trust. In fact, if the soul loses trust, she remains as though separated from Me and all huddled within herself; she places herself at due distance from Me, and remains paralyzed in her surge of love, and therefore paralyzed in sacrificing herself for Me. Oh! how much harm does distrust cause! It can be said that it is like the spring frost that blocks the vegetation of the plants; and many times, if it is strong, frost can even make them die. In the same way, distrust blocks the development of virtues, and puts freezing cold into the most ardent love. Oh! how many times, because of lack of trust, my designs and the greatest sanctities are blocked. This is why I tolerate some defects rather than distrust – because those can never be so harmful.
Vol. 17, September 2, 1924

So distrust is a greater obstacle to God's grace than many defects.  While trust opens the door to God's grace in order to let his light enter.  The size of the area, the empty void, he can fill with his light can only be enlarged through humility and detachment from everything.  But without trust the door that Jesus knocks at remains closed.

“My daughter, the sun is symbol of grace.  When it finds a void, be it even a cave, a vault, a fissure, a hole, as long as there is empty space and a little opening through which to penetrate, it enters and fills everything with light; nor with this does it diminish its light in the other spaces.  And if its light does not illuminate more, it is not because it lacks light, but rather, because of the lack of space in which to be able to diffuse its light more.  So is my grace:  more than majestic sun, it envelops all creatures with its beneficial influence; however, it does not enter but into empty hearts – as much empty space as it finds, so much light does it let penetrate into hearts.

           “These voids, then - how are they formed?  Humility is the hoe that digs and forms the void.  Detachment from everything and also from oneself is the void itself.  The window in order to let the grace of light enter into this void, is trust in God and distrust of ourselves.  Therefore, as much trust as one has, so much does he enlarge the door in order to let the light in, and to take more grace.  The custodian which keeps the light and expands it, is peace.”

Vol. 9, May 16, 1909




The greater the trust the larger the door we open to Jesus the more grace he is able to pour into us.  Jesus says that the souls which will shine the brightest with his light are the ones which trust the most while the opposite is also true.  Those who do not trust will be equally darkened and constrained.  So the trusting souls become the object of God's love where he can pour himself out in love and amuse himself.

“My daughter, the souls who will shine the most, like bright gems in the crown of my mercy, are the souls who have more trust, because the more trust they have, the more they give space for the attribute of my Mercy to pour into them any grace they want.  On the other hand, the soul who does not have true trust, herself closes the graces within Me, remaining always poor and unequipped, while my love remains constrained within Me, and I suffer very much.  And in order not to suffer so much, and to be able to pour out my love more freely, I deal more with those souls who trust than with the others.  With these I can pour out my love, I can play, I can cause loving contrasts, since there is no worry that they might take offense or become fearful; on the contrary, they become more brave and take everything in order to love Me more.  Therefore, trusting souls are the outpouring and the amusement of my love, the ones who receive more graces, and the richest."

Vol. 11, April 10, 1912

...scatter every fear, in my Volition neither dread, nor fears, nor mistrust have any right to exist, they are not things that belong to Us, and you should not do other than to live of love and of my Will.  You should know that one of the purest joys that the creature can give Me is trust in Me, I feel her (as) my daughter to Me and I do that that I want with her, I can say that trust in Me makes known who I am, that I am the immense Being, my goodness without end, my mercy without limits, and when I find more trust, I love her more and I abound more toward creatures."

Vol. 33, May 26, 1935


So trust is a sign of love to Jesus and honors him and he is then able to act as the generous, powerful God that he is, but the reverse is also true.  One who distrusts Jesus dishonors him, constrains him, does not truly love him and is an affront to him.

“So, the trusting soul is my smile and my amusement.  One who has confidence in Me loves Me, esteems Me, believes I am rich, powerful, immense; on the other hand, one who has no confidence does not really love Me; she dishonors Me, believes I am poor, powerless, small.  What and affront to my goodness."
Vol. 12, October 8, 1919

The lack of trust is not only an obstacle to Gods action in the soul but it keeps her grounded and unable to take flight to God and heaven making her feel vividly her own passions and weaknesses.  It is this lack of trust which is then the greatest obstacle to letting the creature arrive to live in God's Divine Will because it takes full trust to do so.

...if there isn’t full confidence between Me and the creature, they cannot be elevated to live in my Divine Will. Lack of confidence always places an obstacle to the union between Creator and creature; it is the wing-clipper of the flight toward the One who loves her so much; it makes her live at the earth’s level; and even though she does not fall, it makes her feel, vividly, her passions. More so, since lack of confidence has been the weak act in the course of the centuries, and sometimes even good souls have drawn back in the journey of virtues because of lack of confidence. And I, in order to remove this torpor that the specter of the lack of confidence produces, wanted to show Myself with you as all love, and in an intimate way, more than father and daughter, in order to call back, not only you, but all others, to live as my children, as though rocked in my arms. And I have enjoyed, and so have you, how beautiful it is to have the creature as all love and all trust with Me; I can give whatever I want, and she has no fear of receiving what she wants. So, once true confidence is placed in order between Me and you, the greatest obstacle to letting my Divine Will reign in their souls is removed.
 Vol. 28, June 2, 1930

So what about fear?  There is holy fear after all.  But Jesus says that fear even if it is holy is a step to removing trust in Jesus and so it is a step to losing Jesus.  It is "human virtue" not Divine.  Only love is Divine virtue and can overcome fear and distrust.  And this love and trust forms the first post for the Divine Will to come and form his Kingdom in the creature where he can extend himself.  So when fears assault us we need to cast them in the Divine Will and abandon ourselves even more in Jesus' arms.

“My blessed daughter, fear although it might be holy is always human virtue, it breaks the flight to love and dread and difficulty becomes born, in walking in the way by making one always look to the right and to the left and one arrives to fear He who so very loves her, it removes the sweet enchantment of trust that lets one live in the arms of her Jesus and if she fears too much, she loses Jesus and lives by herself.  Instead love is Divine virtue and with its fire holds the purifying virtue to purify the soul from whatever stain, it unites her and transforms her in her Jesus, and gives her such trust as to make her enraptured by her Jesus, the sweet enchantment of trust is such and so much that they enrapture each other that the one can not remain without the other, and if she looks, she looks only if she loves He who so very loves her.  So that all her being becomes enclosed in the love and since love is the inseparable child of the Divine Volition, therefore it gives the first post of dominion to my Divine Will.  He extends himself in all the acts of the creature human and spiritual, ennobles everything, and although the human acts remain in the form and material with which they are formed, they don’t undergo any external change, all the change remains in the depth of the human will, all that which she does remains, even the most indifferent things, to change into Divine and confirmed by the Divine Will.  His work is incessant and over all that which the creature does he extends his sojourn of peace, and as true Mother he doesn’t do other than to enrich with Divine conquests his dear daughter.  Therefore scatter every fear, in my Volition neither dread, nor fears, nor mistrust have any right to exist, they are not things that belong to Us, and you should not do other than to live of love and of my Will.  You should know that one of the purest joys that the creature can give Me is trust in Me, I feel her (as) my daughter to Me and I do that that I want with her, I can say that trust in Me makes known who I am, that I am the immense Being, my goodness without end, my mercy without limits, and when I find more trust, I love her more and I abound more toward creatures."

Vol. 33, May 26, 1935



Even faith in God is not enough and without trust it is empty.  To know God without possessing him is empty knowledge.  Only trust in Jesus is the sure hope that leads us to find Him and as he has said, we find him, not in some distant and remote place but in our very selves.  So that love gives birth to trust which gives rise to hope.  Hope, the fruit of the memory gives rise to faith a faculty of the intellect, which as we know God better we come to love God more which gives rise to greater trust.

“God, God, God alone.  Daughter, faith makes one know God, but trust makes one find Him.  So, without trust, faith is sterile, and even though faith possesses immense riches with which the soul can enrich herself, if there is no trust she remains always poor and lacking in everything.” 

Vol. 6, July 29, 1904

 

The more trust we have the more we will learn to abandon ourselves in God and the more we will sense his life in us and we will lose the life of our passions.  This allows us to climb up so high as to become bound to God.  So that before we would have been crushed before his majesty and Divinity and would have fled now we become bound to him in an inseparable union and he states that trust forms the victory of the creature over the Creator.

“My little daughter, how much more you will abandon yourself in me, so much more you will feel my life in you, and I will take the post of primary life in your soul.  You know that true trust in me forms the arms of the soul and the feet in order to climb up even to me and to press me so very strongly as to not be able to release myself from her.  So that one who doesn’t have trust has neither the arms nor feet, hence she is a poor cripple.  Therefore your trust will be your victory over me, and I will hold you pressed in my arms(,) attached to my breast in order to give you the continuous milk of my Divine Will.

Vol. 30, November 4, 1931 

Trust and abandonment goes hand in hand and the one leads to the other and both lead to God taking his place in our souls with equal abandonment making him the soul's sweet prisoner.  Truly the creature becomes victorious.

“Daughter, I am here, abandon yourself in my arms and rest in me, your abandonment in me calls my abandonment in you and forms my sweet rest in your soul.  Abandonment in me forms the sweet and powerful chain that ties me so much to the soul, that I can not release myself from her, even to make myself her dear and sweet Prisoner.  Abandonment in me gives birth to true trust, and she has trust with me and I have trust with her, I have trust in her love that will never come to less, I have trust in her sacrifices, that will never refuse me anything of that which I want, and I have all trust that I can complete my designs.  Abandonment in me says that she gives me liberty and I am free to do that which I want, and entrusting myself to her I manifest my most intimate secrets to her.  Therefore, my daughter, I want you all abandoned in my arms, and how much more abandoned in me (you are), (so much) more you will feel my abandonment in you.”

Vol. 29, October 26, 1931