I here relate the words spoken yesterday and placed at the end of the singular piece of work which my Lord has had me do and whose purpose I still do not know.
Jesus says:
“Out of love for obedience and truth. You have been heavily punished for not having wanted to follow the inner ‘voice’ and the words of your Director. But if the punishment lasts, the sin has been annulled by the very cause which led you to offer resistance. You have acted for a loving reason, and love covers sin and destroys it. Do not do so any more, though. Above the voices of any kind is mine and that of the one who speaks to you in my name, and these should always be listened to. You have acted like a heedless child. But since I am just, I calculate the attenuating circumstances and look at the loving reason which, even if human, is still love, and I shall be able to draw good even from this error of yours. Go in peace.”
Later Jesus says:
“Every living being and everything about the living dies and vanishes, never to return. Joy, sorrow, health, illness, and life are episodes which come and dissolve, sooner or later, and do not come back, in that form, ever again. Joy or sorrow, health or illness may return in other forms and with other faces. But that specific joy, that specific sorrow, that illness, and that health never return. It is a thing of the moment. When that moment is over, another moment like it will come, but that one, never again.
“And life.... Oh, life, once over, never returns! You are given an hour of eternity, a moment of eternity, to conquer Eternity.
“Have you never considered that this motif could be applied to the parable of the money Luke speaks about?491
“You are given one coin of eternity. The Lord entrusts it to you and says, ‘Go. Do business with your coin until I return.’ And, on his return, or, rather, your return to Him, He asks you, ‘What did you do with the coin you received?’ And the faithful servant can happily respond, ‘Here You are, my King. With this coin of eternity I did this work and that one and that other one. And, not by my calculation, but through the word of an angel, I know I have earned ten times as much.’ And the Lord says to him, ‘Well done, faithful servant! Since you have been faithful in a small matter, you shall have power over ten cities, and, in your case, you shall reign here, where I reign for eternity, at once, for you have worked as much as you could.’
“Another, when called by God, will say, ‘With your coin I did this and this. You see, my King, what is written about me.’ And I shall say, ‘Enter as well, for you have worked as much as you could.’
“But to the one who says to Me, ‘Here You are: the coin is just the same. I did not do business with it because I was afraid of your justice,’ I shall say, ‘Go and get to know Love in Purgatory and work there to conquer the kingdom, for you have been a slothful servant and did not take the trouble to get to know who I am and judged Me to be unjust, doubting my justice and forgetting that I am Love. Let your coin be turned into expiation.’
“And to the one who presents himself to Me, saying, ‘I squandered your coin and used it for my own enjoyment because I did not believe this Kingdom really existed and wanted to enjoy the hour which had been given me,’ I shall say indignantly, ‘Foolish and blaspheming servant! Let my gift be taken from you and deposited in the eternal Treasury, and as for you, go where God is not present and Life is not present, for you have wanted not to believe and have wanted to enjoy. You have enjoyed. You have already received, then, your joy of flesh without a soul. The Kingdom of eternity is forever closed to you.’
“How often I would have to thunder these words if I were Justice alone! But Love is greater than my Justice. The former is perfect, and so is the latter. But Love is my nature and takes precedence over my other perfections. This is why I temporize with the sinner, working in such a way that the blameworthy one does not perish altogether.
“I give you time. This is at once love and justice. What would you say if I struck you at the first mistake? You would say, ‘Why, Lord! If You had given me time to reflect, I would have repented!’ I leave you time. You are at fault one, two, ten, seventy times, and I could strike you. I give you time. So that you cannot say to Me, ‘You did not show benignity.’
“No, it is you that are not benignant towards yourselves. And you defraud yourselves of the wealth which I have created for you. And you commit suicide, taking away the Life I have created for you.
“Most of you waste or poorly use the coin of eternity which I give you, and you make the earthly day not, indeed, your eternal glory, but the means for eternal suffering. The minority, afraid of my Justice, remains motionless and condemns itself to learn who God as Love is amidst the flames of purgative love.
“Only a very small portion is able to value my coin and invest it for a tenfold gain, plunge into love, like a fish into a clear fishpond, and go upstream to reach the source, its God, and say to Him, ‘Here I am. I have believed, loved, and hoped in You. You have been my faith, my love, and my hope. I am now coming, and my faith and my hope are ceasing, and everything is becoming love. For I no longer need now to hope in You and in this Life. I now have You, my God. And loving You, just loving You, is the eternal task of this eternal Life of mine.’
“Be one of these, soul of mine, and my peace be with you to help you in this work.”
491 Luke 19:11-27.