The Gift of Divine Will – God Wants to Live a Life with You to Make You Supremely Happy
Do you want to live a life in common with God? Do you want to be supremely happy, to be constantly overflowing with joy and peace, to possess God as the Saints in Heaven do; continually perform divine acts instead of human? Do you want to start living the life of Heaven right here on Earth? In other words, do you fervently want the gift of the Divine Will?
Gift of the Divine Will: living a life with God
Well if so, I have good news for you! God loves us so much that He always intended that we live with the gift of Divine Will, that is, a life in common with Him from the beginning. When he created Adam and Eve, he placed them in the Garden of Paradise, where they lived in supreme happiness. They reigned over Creation like little kings. They possessed sanctifying grace and the supernatural gifts of infused knowledge; freedom from all kinds of physical evil, such as pain, disease, injury, or death; Freedom from lust and sin. They did not have to study or learn knowledge. They knew everything about the natural world in which they lived. They didn’t even need clothes, since they were dressed in garments of light.
Gift of the Divine Will: True Presence of God in the Souls
As great as these gifts were, they were given an even greater one, the gift of Divine Will, which is the jewel in the crown of all gifts. This gift of the Divine Will consists in sharing with God his own Life, through an exchange and fusion of wills: we give him our will and He gives us his Divine Will as the main actor of all our acts. By letting God act in all our acts, He lives and reigns in the soul as truly as he does in the Holy Eucharist. It is not a question here of the mystical presence of God in the soul by grace, as it is in everyone who is in grace; rather we are talking about the actual, true and permanent presence of God in our souls.
Now, you may ask, what is the Divine Will? For it is pure Life, the vital principle that governs light, love and all the attributes of God himself. It is the source of all grace and blessing.
A divine act of infinite merit
Going back to Adam and Eve, they lived a life in common with God. all his acts were carried out in his holy Will, which made these acts perfect; and these acts gave perfect love, glory, adoration, praise and thanksgiving to the Maker of him. In fact, even the smallest acts, like the blink of an eye, were greater, more meritorious, and gave God more glory than all human acts put together from the beginning of the world to its end.
Adam fails God’s test
God, however, really wants to know if we really love him, so he asks us for a test: to stop acting with our human will. For Adam and Eve, it was not eating the fruit of a tree in the Garden of Paradise, and they failed miserably in this test. As punishment, they not only lost the gift of His Divine Will, but all other supernatural gifts. Adam lost his cloak of light, his mind was darkened and he became subject to various evil passions, and he was permanently wounded in his human nature. He could no longer perform divine acts, and he spent the rest of his life crying over his sad fate.
God’s plan to restore the gift of Divine Will
God, however, had a plan to restore this gift of the Divine Will to man. First, He decreed that his Son, the new Adam, would take flesh, live, suffer, and die to redeem man from this original sin. This was achieved through the cooperation of the new Eve, the Virgin Mary. But man had to deserve this grace, and that is why he took the prayers, the good works and the desires for the coming of the Messiah, of the patriarchs, prophets and all the saints, four thousand years for this to happen.
Luisa as first in the Divine Will
Almost six thousand years after the creation of man, God decreed that the time of another new era of grace was dawning; that it was time to restore to man the gift of gifts, that of his Divine Will. Just as he chose to carry out the Redemption through His Mother, the Virgin Mary, this time He chose another virgin, Luisa Piccarreta, to whom God gave this supreme gift of the Divine Will when she was only 24 years old, in 1889. Through Luisa, God wants to give this gift of the Divine Will to all who wish to receive it.
How exactly do we acquire this gift of the Divine Will? Well, Jesus spoke with Luisa regularly for many years, dictating to her 36 volumes of writings on everything concerning her Divine Will, and the knowledge of how to live in this thrice holy Divine Will.
A firm decision in the Divine Will
In these volumes, Jesus explains that first one must wholeheartedly desire the gift of the Divine Will, try to acquire the necessary knowledge by reading, studying, and meditating on Luisa 36 volumes; and then make the firm decision to live only in the Divine Will and not give more life to our human will.
Preventive and Real Acts
How do you do this? First, when it arises, the Preventive Act must be carried out, in which
1) you have to enter into Jesus
2) transform into Him
3) take everything we find in Him
(Now you can find in Jesus the divine version of your life suspended in Him. Take it, make it your own and offer it with Jesus to the Father. You can do this repeatedly, not only for your own life, but also repeatedly with everyone’s life); and then make the general intention of putting all the acts of the day in the Divine Will, by the hands of the Virgin Mary and Luisa. Then, throughout the day, one must try to put all the Actual Acts in the sea of her Divine Will.
Rounds in the Divine Will
One of the most effective ways of living in the Divine Will is to correspond to God in love for all that He has created out of love for us – which constitutes the first duty of the creature – and which pleases God the most, is make the Rounds of the soul in the Divine Will. This is a prayer that consists of visiting all the works of Creation and Redemption to collect and make one’s own all the love and divine qualities placed in each work and return them to God as acts of love, adoration, praise, reparation, recognition. and thanksgiving, imploring at the same time that His Kingdom come, His Divine Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
This form of prayer is also called Rounds of Creation, Redemption and Sanctification, and it is prayed over a chaplet in which 24 meditations on this theme are prayed, accompanied by an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be, for each meditation. . After each meditation, the aspiration is also recited: “Descend, O Supreme Will, and come reign on Earth!” and “Pray for us, Queen of the Divine Will, so that the Divine Will may reign on Earth as it is in Heaven.”
Gift given for the first time on loan
Each act we perform widens the circle of light in our soul, and brings us closer to acquiring the gift permanently. At first, God only gives the gift as a loan, that is, in each act that we do, He gives the gift only for that particular act, and withdraws it until the next act that we place in the Divine Will. When we have performed a certain number of divine acts that He has prearranged, and He thinks that He can entrust us with this gift, then He gives it to us permanently.
Divine Acts in the Divine Will
Then all our acts become divine acts. How is this possible? Well then, Jesus told Luisa that while He was on Earth, He lived each and every one of our lives, and divinely redid our acts, so that just as we place our human act in His Divine Will, He bilocates His divine act. in our human act. act, and thus he divinizes each act placed in his Divine Will. This divine act enters the sphere of eternity, and will continue to give God perfect love, glory, adoration, praise, and thanksgiving for all eternity, and will also do good to everyone on Earth. This is how God’s goal in the creation of man is fulfilled: that man live in the place, order and purpose for which he was created, that he live in his Divine Will.