Have you begun to appreciate Eternal Wisdom?

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

If you have been following the threads quoting from, “The Love of Eternal Wisdom”, I hope you have grown in gratitude and love for God, through the words of St. Louis de Montfort. God has given unique insights to the saints for the Church. By His Grace, may we listen to hear God speaking through them. Today we continue with Chapter 3, where we left off yesterday.

1. This mysterious game of divine Wisdom is clearly seen in the great variety of all He created. Apart from considering the different species of angels whose number is well-nigh infinite, and the varied brightness of the stars and the different temperaments of men, we are filled with wonderment at the changes we see in the seasons and the weather, at the variety of instincts in animals, at the different species of plants, at the diversified beauty of the flowers and the different tastes of the fruits. “Let him who is wise understand these things” (Hos. 14:10; cf. Jer. 9:12; Ps. 106:43). Who is the one to whom eternal Wisdom has communicated his wisdom? That person alone will understand these mysteries of nature.
2. Eternal Wisdom has revealed these things to the saints, as we learn from their biographies. At times they were so astonished at the beauty, the harmony and the order that God has put into the smallest things, such as a bee, an ant, an ear of corn, a flower, a worm, that they were carried away in rapture and ecstasy.
3. If the power and gentleness of eternal Wisdom were so luminously evident in the creation, the beauty and order of the universe, they shone forth far more brilliantly in the creation of man. For man is his supreme masterpiece, the living image of his beauty and his perfection, the great vessel of his graces, the wonderful treasury of his wealth and in a unique way his representative on earth. “By your wisdom you appointed man to have dominion over every creature you made” (Wisd. 9:2).
4. For the glory of this magnificent and powerful Worker I must describe the original beauty and excellence of man as created by divine Wisdom. But the state of man’s grievous sin has fallen upon me, poor miserable child of Eve, dulling my understanding to the point that I can describe only very imperfectly the work of man’s creation.
5. We might say that eternal Wisdom made copies, that is, shining likenesses of his own intelligence, memory, and will, and infused them into the soul of man so that he might become the living image of the Godhead. In man’s heart he enkindled the fire of the pure love of God. He gave him a radiant body and virtually enshrined within him a compendium of all the various perfections of angels, animals, and other created things.

Please note the humility of St. Louis de Montfort in paragraph 36. Jesus, Meek and Humble of Heart make our hearts like Yours. Mary, Mother and Model for the Church pray for us. Come, Holy Spirit, kindle in us the Fire of Your Love!