Our entire perfection is founded on loving our most loving God. “Charity is the bond of perfection” (Col 3:14). And perfect love of God consists in the complete union of our will with God’s most holy will. “The principal effect of love”, says St. Denis, “is to unite the will of those who love each other so that it becomes one and the same will.”
It follows then, that the more one unites his will with the divine will, the greater will be his love of God. Mortification, meditation, receiving Holy Communion, acts of fraternal charity are all certainly pleasing to God – but only when they are in accordance with His will. When they do not accord with God’s will, He not only finds no pleasure in them, but He even rejects them utterly and punishes them. […]
The greatest glory, then, that we can give to God is to fulfil His blessed will in everything. […]
To do the will of God – this was the goal upon which the saints constantly fixed their gaze. They were fully persuaded that in this consists the entire perfection of the soul. […]
During our sojourn in this world, we should learn from the saints now in Heaven, how to love God. The pure and perfect love of God they enjoy there consists in uniting themselves perfectly to the divine will.
It would be the greatest delight of the Seraphs to pile up sand on the seashores or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out that such was God’s will. Going even further, if God were to tell them that they were to be burned in the fire of hell, they would promptly descend to the abyss, in order to fulfil the divine will.
And Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in Heaven (Mt 6:10). Because David fulfilled all His wishes, God called him “a man after my heart, who will do all my will (Acts 13:22).
ST. ALPHONSUS MARIA DE LIGUORI.
Uniformity with God’s Will.
Niterói: Escola Tipográfica Salesiana, 1913, p.3-7
