“I am offering this power to all of you, to use now and for eternity.” (Message from God the Father to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
The temptation in Paradise was linked to the lie that man would be like God. Time and again, we see that the devil presents his deceptions in the form of half-truths or apparent truths. He tempted man at the point that led him to damnation: desiring to be like God. However, his goal was not to attain God’s love but His omnipotence without aspiring to His goodness.
The Carmelite Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalene writes in his meditation on union with God: “God communicates His supernatural being to the soul (which is in a state of grace) to such an extent that it seems more like God than the soul.” Mystics often describe this experience, without thereby eliminating the ontological difference: God will always be God, and man will always be man.
From this perspective, we can grasp the treasure of omnipotence that our Father offers us in today’s phrase. He wants to make us participants in His power, which is a power of love. This is communicated to the soul that responds to God’s love and remains in it. It is the grace that the soul receives, and the more it grows in love, the more it can adopt God’s being and act in His omnipotence. Therefore, it is a participation in His power, not a possession of our own.
Our Father loves us so much that He shares the full richness of His glory with His children so that His Kingdom may be built in us and through us wherever the Lord has placed us in this world. By virtue of grace, we can truly become like God, so that He may manifest Himself to men through us. What joy!