Light from Jesus

Light from Jesus

May Jesus continue to grant you his holy love; may he increase it in your heart, transforming it completely in him….

What should I say to you in the name of this most sweet God become Man? I repeat, a thousand times and I will always repeat what I have always said to you: Do not fear. Jesus is with you. He is working within you and is pleased with you, and you are entirely and always in him.

This is the entire and only truth. Who assures you of this? The very authority that God himself has constituted as your guide; the authority that loves you, which does not want to and cannot misguide you, the authority that represents God and who speaks to you in the name of the same God….

You are right to complain at finding yourself more often than not in darkness. You seek your God, you sigh for him, you call him and cannot always find him. Then it seems to you that God hides himself, that he has abandoned you! But I repeat, do not fear. Jesus is with you and you are with him. In darkness, times of tribulation and spiritual anxiety, Jesus is with you. In that state, you see nothing but darkness in your spirit, but I assure you on behalf of God, that the light of the Lord invades and surrounds your entire spirit. You see yourself in tribulations and God repeats to you through the mouth of his prophet and that of authority: I am with the troubled soul. You see yourself in a state of abandonment, but I assure you that Jesus holds you more tightly than ever to his divine Heart. Even our Lord on the cross complained of the Father’s abandonment. But did the Father ever and could he ever abandon his Son, the only object of his divine pleasure?

There are the extreme trials of the spirit. Jesus wants it so. Fiat! Pronounce this fiat in a resigned manner and do not fear. By all means complain to Jesus as you like: Pray to him as you wish, but adhere firmly to the words of him who speaks to you in the name of God.

Saint Pius of Pietrelcina