“Look, now I am putting aside My crown and all My glory to take on the appearance of an ordinary man!” (Father’s message to Sister Eugenia Ravasio).
With all His gestures and words, with all His actions and graces, our Father wants to make Himself known to us. Just as the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, His beloved Son – God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God – took on the human condition, so God the Father shows Himself to Sister Eugenia in a form that she could understand. This is how she describes it:
“Having assumed the appearance of an ordinary man by placing His crown and His glory at His Feet, He took the globe of the world and held it to His Heart, supporting it with His left Hand. He then sat next to me”.
It is part of God’s greatness to make Himself small in order to make Himself understood by His creatures. With good reason we can speak of the “humility of God”. It shines all the more brightly because the Father is not subordinate to anyone or anything, but comes down to us out of a totally disinterested love. Our Father comes to shower us with gifts. When we accept the gift of eternal life that He offers us, it becomes a gift to Him too, because His love will have touched us. Then our Father will be with us for all eternity, revealing Himself to us as our true bliss.
All this is visibly reflected in the life of Jesus, “who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2:6-8).
God’s love is self-giving! No way seems too long, no valley too deep, no effort too great.