What Living in the Divine Will is?
I was dissolving myself in the Holy Volition of Blessed Jesus, thinking to myself: 'Which one is greater, more varied and more complex - the work of Creation or the work of Redemption?' And my always adorable Jesus told me: "My daughter, the Redeeming work is greater, more varied and complex than the work of Creation; so much so, that every act of the Redeeming work is an immense sea which surrounds the work of Creation. The work of Creation, surrounded by the Redeeming work, is nothing other than little rivulets surrounded by the immense sea of the work of Redemption. Now, one who lives in my Will, who takes my 'Fiat Voluntas Tua' as her own life, flows in these immense seas of the Redeeming work, diffusing and spreading herself together with them, so as to surpass the very work of Creation. Only the Life in my Fiat can give true honor and glory to the work of Creation, because my Fiat multiplies and expands Itself everywhere - It has no limits. On the other hand, the work of Creation has its limits, nor can it become larger than it is.
My daughter, the greatest miracle which my Omnipotence can perform is a soul who lives in my Fiat. Do you think it is trivial that my Holy, Immense, Eternal Will descends into one creature; that putting my Will and hers together, I dissolve her in Me, becoming the life of all that the creature does, even the most tiny things? Therefore, her heartbeat, word, thought, motion and breath are those of the living God within the creature. She hides Heaven and earth within herself, although, apparently, she looks like a creature. I could not give greater grace, more portentous prodigy, more heroic sanctity than my Fiat.
See, the work of Creation is great; the work of Redemption is even greater; but my Fiat which makes the creature live in my Will surpasses both of them. In fact, in the Creation my Fiat created and delivered my works, but did not remain as center of life within the created things. In the Redemption my Fiat remained as center of life in my Humanity, but did not remain as center of life in the creatures; rather, if their will does not adhere to Mine, they render vain the fruits of my Redemption. But the 'Fiat Voluntas Tua' will be the true glory of the work of Creation and the fulfillment of the copious fruits of the work of Redemption. Here is the reason I want from you nothing other than my Fiat, that It may be your life, and that you look at nothing but my Will: because I want to be the center of your life."
July 7, 1917 Volume 12
For one who does the Divine Will, all the works of her life are present and in act.
I was fusing myself in my sweet Jesus, but I saw myself as so miserable that I didn't know what to tell Him. In order to console me, my always adorable Jesus told me: "My daughter, neither past nor future exist for one who does my Will, but everything is in a present act. Since all that I did and suffered is in a present act - so that, if I want to give satisfaction to the Father, or do good to the creatures, I can do it, just as if I were in the act of suffering and operating - all that the creature can suffer and do in my Will is identified with my pains and works, and they become one single thing. So, when the soul wants to give Me a proof of love with her pains, she can take the pains suffered at other times, which are in act, and give them to Me, in order to replicate her love and satisfactions for Me. In seeing the industriousness of the creature who places her acts as if on a counter in order to multiply them and collect the interest, to give Me love and satisfaction, to be more enriched and not to be outdone in love, I give her my pains and my works, in order to love her and to be loved."
August 9, 1921 Volume 13
Activity of the soul in the immense sea of the Divine Will. Her acts reach all creatures and the very Creator.
Continuing in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself, in the middle of a most extensive sea. I could see a machine, and as the engine moved, water would spurt out from all sides of this machine. Rising up to Heaven, these waves of water spouted upon all Saints and Angels, and reaching the Throne of the Eternal One, they poured impetuously at His feet, and descended again into the depths of the same sea. I remained astonished in seeing this, and I said to myself: 'What can this machine be?' A light which came from that very sea told me: "The sea is my Will, the machine is the soul who lives in my Volition, the engine is the human will operating in the Divine Volition. Every time the soul makes her own special intentions in my Volition, the engine puts the machine into motion. And since my Will is life of the Blessed as well as of the machine, there is no wonder that my Will, which springs out from this machine, enters Heaven glowing with light and glory, spouting upon all, up to my throne, and then descends again into the sea of my Will on earth, for the good of the pilgrim souls. My Will is everywhere, and the acts done in my Will run everywhere - both in Heaven and on earth. They run to the past, because my Will existed; to the present, since my Will has lost nothing of Its activity; to the future, since It will exist eternally. How beautiful are the acts in my Will! Since my Will contains always new contentments, these acts are new contentments even for the Blessed; they compensate for the acts of the Saints, which have not been made in my Will; they are new graces for all creatures." Continuing in my usual state, my always adorable Jesus came all tenderness, squeezed me in His arms, kissed me, and said to me, who knows how many times: "My daughter, the daughter of my Will, how dear you are to Me! Listen, as your will enters into Mine, it empties you of yourself, and Mine enters, acting in you; and as Mine acts, yours receives the strength of the Creative Power and remains acting in Me. And since I am one single point, containing everything, embracing everything, doing everything, I see your will acting in Me with my Creative Power, wanting to give Me everything and repay Me for all, and with my highest contentment I see it before Me from the very first instant in which I delivered the whole Creation; and leaving all behind, it comes forward - as if you were the first one to be created by Me, in whom no splitting of wills exists - between Me and you - just as I would have wanted the first man to be - and it gives Me honor, glory, love, as if Creation had not gone out of my Will. What flavor, what contentment I feel! You cannot understand it. The order of Creation is given back to Me; the harmonies, the joys, alternate together. I see this human will acting in Me in the light of the sun, in the waves of the sea, in the flickering of the stars - in everything; and it gives Me the glory of all the goods which these created things give to man. What happiness! You are like Me in everything, with this difference: I am one single point, and you, little by little, as you operate, think, speak, love in my Will, take more space and form divine places."
April 9, 1923 Volume 15
God is the Prime Motion of the whole Creation, and one who operates in the Divine Will operates in the Prime Motion.
I felt all immersed in the Divine Volition, and I said to my Jesus: 'Ah, I beg You, never let me go out of your Most Holy Will. Grant that I always think, speak, work and love in your adorable Will!' Now, as I was saying this, I felt surrounded by a most pure Light, and then I saw my Highest and only Good, telling me: "My beloved daughter, I love so much these acts done in my Will that, as soon as the soul enters into It in order to act, the shadow of my Light surrounds her, and I run, so that my Act and hers may be one. Since I am the Prime Act of the whole Creation, without my prime motion all created things would remain paralyzed, without strength and incapable of the slightest movement. Life is in the motion; without it, everything is dead. I am the prime motion, and I give life and action to all other motions, therefore at my first motion the creature starts moving around. It happens as to an engine: at the first motion of the first wheel, all other wheels start spinning. See then, how natural it is for one who lives in my Will to move in my prime motion, and operating in it, to find herself and to operate in the motion of all the creatures. And I see the creature, I feel her, flowing in my own motion and in all the motions of creatures, giving Me as many divine acts for as many offensive human acts as the others do; and this, only because she operated within my prime motion. Therefore I say that one who lives in my Will substitutes Me for all, defends Me from all, and puts my motion - my own Life - in a safe place.
This is why to operate in my Will is the prodigy of prodigies, but without glamour, without human acclamations. It is my true triumph over the whole Creation; and being a fully divine triumph, the human remains silent, having no equivalent words with which to acclaim the triumph of my Supreme Will."