Seeking God in Love

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From today's Divine Intimacy mediation--


The love which will lead us to God does not consist in sentiment; it is an act of will. To love is to "will good"; to love God, is to "will good to God." The good which we can desire for God is that which Jesus Himself taught us to ask our heavenly Father: "Hallowed be Thy name; Thy will be done." Since God is the infinite good upon which everything depends, the good that He desires and that by which He is pleased is none other than His own glory and the accomplishment of His will.

We love God, then, to the degree in which we apply ourselves to do His will, without any personal preoccupations or self-seeking. St. John of the Cross says that if a soul looks for sweetness and delight in God, “it would not then love God purely, above all things.” In fact, together with Him the soul would also be seeking some personal satisfaction, because its heart would be divided between love of God and love of itself; and therefore, it would be unable to “set the strength of the will upon Him.” Hence, the Saint concludes, it should “have that hunger and thirst for God alone and desire not to be satisfied with anything else.” A soul which, moment by moment and in all its actions, seeks nothing but the will of God, is really seeking God in love and is uniting itself effectively to Him, even though it feels no consolation. But because it is always true that “if a soul is seeking God, God is seeking it much more,” He may sometimes draw it to Himself, making it taste the sweetness of His love and the joy of belonging entirely to Him. However, not even then may the soul stop to relish these consolations, but humbly accepting them, it should use them to give itself to God with greater resolution and generosity.


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