237th Meditation
“I am just, it is true, but love pays for everything! Listen, My children, let us make a comparison, and you will be assured of My love. For Me, your sins are like iron, and your acts of love like gold. If you gave Me a thousand pounds of iron, it would not be like giving Me just ten pounds of gold! In other words, with just a little love, great iniquities can be expiated” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
Since love is the primary reason for our existence and God Himself is love, “in the evening of life we will be judged on love” (St. John of the Cross).
Today the Father shows us this very clearly. Without neglecting justice in the least, He gives every person access to the way of love.
Love bears all things (1 Cor 13:7). It has the power to transform wolves into lambs, the impure into saints, murderers into messengers of life….
Our Father wants us to be sure of His love. Then we will no longer have to convince ourselves again and again that God really loves us, nor will we have to fear that He might stop loving us for every fault we commit.
Our Father wants us to fulfil our task in this world as free people, only bound to His Son, for “if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (Jn 8:36). God knows very well how sensitive we are in matters of love and that perhaps, deep down, we do not feel very loved. That is why He offers us this simple comparison. All of us can offer Him the gold of love. Every day presents us with countless opportunities to do so. God will never forget anything we have done out of love. Though we may not be driven by that triumphant ease, but may even find it difficult, the Lord will know how to measure the weight of the gold we offer Him.
Let us pay close attention to the last words of the quotation we have heard today: “with just a little love, great iniquities can be expiated”. Let us remember them especially when we have acted wickedly on our way and the “sword of justice” is rightly hanging over us.
Our Father wants to forgive! He wants us to get up after having fallen into sin, to love and, through love, to repay the debt of our evil deeds. The deeds that we do out of love are what God wants to see and turn into gold. In this way, our Father encourages us all.
Whoever we are, wherever we come from, if we listen to His voice today, we are called to respond to God’s love. Then He, in His mercy, will judge us as a loving Father and not as a merciless avenger. We only have to turn to Him and reciprocate His love!