“You need not know my plan in everything, but simply trust in me, as did your beloved Mother, my Daughter” (Interior Word).
The plans of our Heavenly Father are always plans of salvation and not of misfortune (Jer 29:11). We are called to trust in God Himself, and not in what we know or think we know.
Thus, it should not be an unhealthy curiosity that guides us on the path of following the Lord, but trust in God’s wisdom, with the certainty that He will tell us and transmit to us in due time all that we need to know. Then the light of trust will guide us, penetrating us from within in every situation, however uncertain it may be.
It is not that it is impermissible to ask our Beloved Father what plans of salvation He has laid out. Indeed, He Himself treats us as confidants and calls us His “friends” and “children”. However, when we want to ask Him questions regarding His plan of salvation, we must do so with Mary’s attitude.
“In what way shall this be done, for I have not known a man?” -asks the holy Virgin to God’s messenger when he reveals to her the design of the Father, who has chosen her to give birth to the Son of God (Lk 1:34).
Neither curiosity nor distrust can be perceived in this question. On the contrary, it can be understood as if she were asking: How will you do it?
And Mary receives an answer. God communicates to the Virgin everything she needs to know, and she confidently gives herself into the hands of the Heavenly Father: “I am the Lord’s servant, may your word to me be fulfilled” (Lk 1:38). Now we are invited to imitate her complete trust in God. It is a very worthy trust, which glorifies our Father, since He deserves it, and desires for us to trust in Him.
When a soul opens itself to God in Mary’s way, He can bestow on it all that He has prepared for it. Moreover, this soul would be taking the proper attitude of the creature before the Creator, of a child before a Father.
Trust frees us to love! When we trust our Heavenly Father in everything, we let go of any security we place in ourselves and abandon ourselves to His kind Providence. Day by day our gratitude will grow and, along with it, our intimate friendship with God.
Then it will be enough for us to know that the Father’s plans are always plans of salvation. Everything else will be given to us in addition (Mt 6:33).