‘In the end, man was created! I was pleased with My handiwork. Man sins, but it is precisely then that My infinite generosity shows itself’ (Message of God the Father to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
Being omniscient, our Father knew that man would be separated from Him by sin. However, His love did not allow this knowledge to prevent Him from creating man and taking pleasure in His work. In response to man’s sin, God showed even greater goodness and paved the way of salvation for us. All of us who follow His Son, Jesus Christ, know this way, and through it, we can understand the love of our Father ever more deeply. In the Message to Mother Eugenia, after explaining how men forgot Him and created laws according to their vices, offending Him along the way, the Heavenly Father expresses the extent of His love: ‘I did not stop there. Understand well that I loved you, as it were, more than My beloved Son, or rather, more than Myself’.
This declaration of our Father’s love surpasses all our understanding and reveals how God truly is. Although He deserves all honour and adoration, and all creatures must worship His Majesty and praise Him without ceasing, this same infinite God bends towards us with tender, fatherly love. He loves us more than Himself!
What could happen to us if we have a Father who loves us more than Himself? What more could we lack? The only thing left for us to do is to be able to contemplate Him face to face. The most beautiful thing still awaits us!