The Soul: “O Most Gracious One, if it pleases You so much that people believe in You, then please tell me what I am to believe regarding Your ineffable goodness.” (St. Mechthild of Hackeborn)
With certain hope, you shall believe that after your death I will receive you as a father receives his most beloved son, and that never has a father so faithfully apportioned the inheritance to his only son as I will share with you all My goods and Myself.
It is the way of our Heavenly Father to speak to every soul that loves Him in such a way that it is completely certain of His love, and also to draw every soul He wishes to call to Himself with unsurpassed love. God cannot help but love humanity; it is only humanity that can withdraw from His conscious love and thus be lost. With all these words, He wishes to invite us to believe Him—that He seeks us with this unique love and wishes to bestow it upon us.
The Lord responds similarly regarding friendship: “And furthermore, I will receive you as a friend, the dearest friend, and show you such friendship as no one has ever experienced from a friend. For never has such a faithful friend been found who has not or could not have done his friend any wrong. But I, who am faithful and faithfulness itself, am incapable of ever deceiving My friends through any deceit.”
There is nothing that God does not wish to permeate with His love. It is never possible to find even a single thing that God does not possess in His abundance and does not wish to bestow.
We must be certain of our Father’s love and entrust ourselves unreservedly to our Lord in faith. This is what God wants us to understand, and this is what He loves!