36. Strip Yourself of Everything Part 1

The more the soul strips herself of natural things, the more the supernatural and divine things she acquires.

Now here we're being told it all depends on us.

I've said many times to my groups that I will never be a pilot because A, I don't want to be a pilot.

Therefore, I do not submit myself to the training that is necessary.

I don't make myself available.

In the same way, if I don't want to be a saint, I won't be because I will not allow myself to go through all the stripping and the mortification and the purification that's actually required for the Lord to come in and take over my life and to sanctify me and bring me to this level of sanctity.

So this passage is now reminding us that You become a saint by your own decision.

It is by your own will.

Okay.

God is not going to impose it on you.

And so you have to choose divine will all the time.

It is actually necessary to choose divine will day and night continuously.

And if you choose it, then you're choosing to let Jesus be Lord of your life and you're choosing to let him govern your life and you're choosing to let him decide when purification is needed or not needed.

And of course, involved in all of that is that you choose to surrender to his action within you.

I want to give you Philippians 1, 6, that the Lord will finish the work that he begins in you unless you stop it.

This is a very important message.

As I was in my usual state, Louisa said, my adorable Jesus came for just a little, making me hear his most sweet voice saying, the more the soul strips herself, this is our job, of natural things, the more supernatural and divine things she acquires.

Now, If I fill my eyes with the evil that comes to me from the television and my ears with all the worldliness that comes to me from the radio, if I stuff my heart with all the stuff that I get on YouTube and all the rest of it, I am not allowing any space for divine will.

I'm not allowing the divine love to take over.

So we have got to decide to push these things out of our lives.

Most of us are not able to do it in one fell swoop because you have to come to the point of actually convincing yourself that this actually must happen.

But there's no way you can be filled with the divine if you're already filled with the human.

I'm not even saying evil.

I'm just simply saying human.

If you're filled with the material, you can't have the spiritual.