“Lord, you examine me and know me” (Ps 139:1).
No one but God knows the heart of man in its deepest depths. No one can even examine his own heart in depth, unless it is revealed to him in the light of the Spirit of God.
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THE ANSWER IS MYSELF
“I Myself have placed in the hearts of men the search for Me, and I Myself am the answer” (Inner Word).
Why does man seek?
Because the Father Himself has placed this longing in his heart and, according to the unforgettable words of St. Augustine, “our heart is restless until it rests in You” (Confessions, I, 1).
DO NOT PUT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES
“Do not put your trust in princes,
in any child of Adam, who has no power to save. (…)
How blessed is he who has Jacob’s God to help him,
his hope is in the Lord his God” (Ps 146:3,5).
IN MY HEART IS YOUR HOME
“In my Heart you are at home, always and forever. There you find everything, even in the thickest darkness.”
To feel at home is a deeply rooted longing in man. Home is the place where he can be as he is, where he does not feel threatened, where he knows he is loved, where he finds his place….
I CANNOT HOLD BACK MY LOVE
“When I look into my Heart, I cannot hold back my love. It always wants to pour itself out on men, to envelop them and to give itself to them”.
How does the fire of love burn in our Father’s Heart, wanting to give itself to us!
This is what divine love is like: it always wants to give itself and never ceases. Certainly, one can close oneself to it. But this cannot diminish, much less extinguish the fire in the Heart of God. Even if we do not allow it to enter our heart so that it can bring us its light and warmth, the fire is not extinguished.
“God is love” (1 Jn 4:8) and possesses in Himself its fullness. It is an unquenchable flame. If God were not like this, He would not be our loving Father.
If we want to become persons full of love, burning with love, then we must draw near to this fire. To the extent that our heart is filled with the love of God – which is the Holy Spirit poured into our hearts (Rom 5:5) – to the extent that it is freed from disordered self-love and from all coldness, it will also become a source of love.
When God dwells in our hearts, illuminating even its innermost recesses, then His fire enkindles us and permeates us, wanting to pour Himself out on men also through us.
In this way, we become people who love and who now have a share in God’s longing for His own. The more we allow ourselves to be moved by His Spirit, the more perseveringly we will carry out the works of God and cast the nets of love.
TRUST ME UNRESERVEDLY
“Trust in me without reserve” – I heard one day in prayer.
The love of our Father invites us to trust Him unreservedly. There is nothing that God does not know; He knows us better than we know ourselves, He knows our heart:
“Lord, you examine me and know me,
you know when I sit, when I rise,
you understand my thoughts from afar. Read More
GOD’S LOVE IS ALWAYS THERE
All people must realise that they have a most loving Father. This is the objective reality on which their lives are founded. Only by internalising this truth can they awaken to the fullness of life (cf. Jn 10:10b).
It is the Heavenly Father who can heal all our wounds and make us discover the loving meaning of our existence by making Himself known to us. Herein lies man’s true happiness! Read More
JESUS PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER
When His hour had come, Jesus turns to the Father and commends His own to Him and assures Him: “[They] have indeed accepted it and know for certain that I came from you, and have believed that it was you who sent me” (Jn 17:8b). Read More
JESUS TRANSMITS TO US THE WORDS OF THE FATHER
In His great prayer to the Father, Jesus can testify that His own, who were entrusted to Him by the Father, have kept His Word: “Now at last they have recognised that all you have given me comes from you, for I have given them the teaching you gave to me, and they have indeed accepted it” (Jn 17:7-8). Read More
THE SON REVEALS THE FATHER
We continue to meditate in detail on the 17th chapter of John, which is an eminent expression of the profound relationship between the Father and the Son.
Raising His eyes to heaven, Jesus said to His Father:
“I have revealed your name to those whom you took from the world to give me. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word” (Jn 17:6). Read More