Hello everyone. Om currently in RCIA and have been learning more and more about the catholic faith. Upon reading about Jesus call to give up all your possesions and follow him and how he will turn a man against his father and a daughter against her mother as well as when jesus talks about some are eunichs for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven got me thinking. Reading these got me worried if im on the right track in life. I love my girlfriend and have always felt like I should get married and start a family. I just dont know if this is my desire or Gods desire for me? Should the two lign up?The question is how do I know if this is Gods will. This may sound crazy but reading these verses makes me feel if I am happy with her or my life then I should give it up. Im so confused on how to know what is Gods will and am very afraid of choosing the wrong vocation in life and disobeying God. Thanks for your help.
Abandonment to Divine Providence Jean-Pierre de Caussade
I believe that if those souls that tend towards sanctity were instructed as to the conduct they ought to follow, they would be spared a good deal of trouble. I speak as much of people in the world as of others. If they could realise the merit concealed in the actions of each moment of the day: I mean in each of the daily duties of their state of life, and if they could be persuaded that sanctity is founded on that to which they give no heed as being altogether irrelevant, they would indeed be happy.
If, besides, they understood that to attain the utmost height of perfection, the
safest and surest way is to accept the crosses sent them by Providence at every moment, that the true philosopher’s stone is submission to the will of God which changes into divine gold all their occupations, troubles, and sufferings, what consolation would be theirs! What courage would they not derive from the thought that to acquire the friendship of God, and to arrive at eternal glory, they had but to do what they were doing, but to suffer what they were suffering, and that what they wasted and counted as nothing would suffice to enable them to arrive at eminent sanctity: far more so than extraordinary states and wonderful works. O my God! how much I long to be the missionary of Your holy will, and to teach all men that there is nothing more easy, more attainable, more within
reach, and in the power of everyone, than sanctity.
How I wish that I could make them understand that just as the good and the bad thief had the same things to do and to suffer; so also two persons, one of whom is worldly and the other leading an interior and wholly spiritual life have, neither of them, anything different to do or to suffer; but that one is sanctified and attains eternal happiness by submission to Your holy will in those very things by which the other is damned because he does them to please himself, or endures them with reluctance and rebellion.
This proves that it is only the heart that is different. Oh! all you that read this, it will cost you no more than to do what you are doing, to suffer what you are suffering, only act and suffer in a holy manner. It is the heart that must be changed. When I say heart, I mean will. Sanctity, then, consists in willing all that God wills for us. Yes! sanctity of heart is a simple “fiat,” a conformity of will with the will of God. What could be more easy, and who could refuse to love a will so kind and so good? Let us love it then, and this love alone will make everything in us divine.
Peace
