His purpose, our purpose

His Purpose, Our Purpose

I am resolved to put no limit to my trust and to extend it to everything. It seems to me that I ought to make use of our Lord as an armor which covers me all about, by means of which I shall resist every device of my enemies. You, then, shall be my strength, O my God! You shall be my guide, my director, my counselor, my patience, my knowledge, my peace, my justice, and my prudence. I will have recourse to you in my temptations, in my dryness, in my repugnances, in my weariness, in my fears; or rather I will no longer fear either the illusions or the tricks of the demon, nor my own weakness, my indiscretions, nor even my mistrust of myself. For you must be my strength in all my crosses. 

You promise me that this you will be in proportion to my confidence. And wonderful indeed it is, O my God, that at the same time that you impose this condition, it seems to me that you give me the confidence wherewith to fulfill it. May you be eternally loved and praised by all creatures. O my very loving Lord! If you were not my strength, alas, what should I do? But since you are, and since you do assure me that you are, what shall I not do for your glory? I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me (Phil 4:13).

You are everywhere in me and I in you; therefore in whatever situation I may find myself, in whatever peril, whatever enemy may rise up against me, I have my support always with me. This thought alone can, in a moment, scatter all my trials.

Saint Claude la Colombière