I have read little of Paschal. I have tried a few times, but he is not my cup of coffee or tea.
If I have understood, be not afraid, you will love.
This is Jesus: “Be not afraid.”
You will love the Lord God is a promise and a command.
My understanding: do not be afraid that you do not have patience to take care of your five children. I have given it to you already. I have made you a child of God. You have all the patience you need. I planted it in you. It will grow.
St. Paul tells us it is grounded and rooted in love.
The soil in which the seed is planted is us. We are made from the slime of the earth. We are dust and to dust we will return, that is, the old self, but not the new self. The new self is rich soil.
You will love God, neighbor and self. This is Jesus and Moses.
This is a promise and a commandment. The Ten Words are now revealed in One Word. Jesus promised us we will love. He fulfilled or brought to fruition all of those promise/commnadments.
The Ten Words come from the heart of God. I am truth and you will not lie. I am Life and you will not murder. I am LOVE and you will not hate.
You will have faith. Love gives energeo or life to faith. Galatians 5: 6 …but only faith “energeo” through love; and James 2: 26 “For just as a body (“soma”) without a spirit (“pneuma”) is dead, so also faith without works (“ergon”) is dead.” The ergon comes from God’s love poured into our hearts.
Love give power to chastity. Chastity is beautiful.
You will be prudent, just, courageous, sober and all virtues.
Love give life to all virtues. God’s love is poured into our hearts, Romans 5: 5. St. Thomas as many of the Fathers and Doctors teach: Love animates all of the other virtues. But of course James and Paul taught that. But Jesus said love is first, second and third. Love is the first commandment. It is one in the sense of cardinal and not ordinal. Love is the ruler of all virtues. Even the great virtue of faith is nothing without love’s “energeo.” St. James says love give life to faith. Paul says love gives “energeo” to faith.
We are given all of these beautiful things.
Choose life, that is from Moses, at least the first time. I place before you life and death. But the New Testament teaches the same. God is LIFE. Jesus IS LIFE.
The Holy Spirit’s fruits are in us, St. Paul.
He will work all these things in us, St. Paul and others in the New Testament.
St. John was quoted by John Paul II in Boston, MA. Jesus must increase as we decrease.
St. Paul: “When I am weak then I am strong.”
In Philippians 2: 13 and 4: 13 God works in us the desire and the will to do (“energeo”) His good pleasure. I call this the mystery of God working our salvation inside of us right now. The miser comes from the old self that will not accept Jesus’ love that He pours into our hearts.
Romans 8: 28 all things work together (“sunergeo”) for good to them that love God. But God has poured His love and gives us the desire and will to do His will. Our Father’s will on earth.
Again, the mystery of God working inside us our actual salvation while still in our bodies.
Love rules all virtues. Love is the first three virtues. Love is first in the cardinal sense. It is the life of all virtues. God is love and He has poured His love into our hearts. We are saved by His grace: His gift of a new creation or heart. His gift of His love poured into our hearts. His love must increase. His gift of our new self is a grace. The more our old self dies, the more His love rules our new self. Christ is in us. We are God’s children. From the fall to John the Baptist, humans could only be friends with God. Now we are Jesus’ brothers. Now we are heirs of God. Now we are children. Now God is our Father.
I guess I should say: HE POURS HIS LOVE IN OUR HEARTS.
The more our old self dies, the more the new self live.
Sorry I talked on and on.
I am tried. I should have stopped twenty minutes ago.
Again, sorry.
