Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

Author:Julian of Norwich
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9780141904528
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 1997-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

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How we should rejoice and trust in our Saviour Jesus, and not presumptuously seek to know his privy counsel.

He made me understand two aspects of this. One of them is our Saviour and our salvation; this aspect is blessed and is clear and bright, light and beautiful and abundant, for all men who are and shall be of good will are included in it; we are bound to it by God, and drawn to it, admonished and taught inwardly by the Holy Ghost and outwardly by Holy Church through the same grace; our Lord wishes our minds to be filled with this, rejoicing in him because he rejoices in us; and the more abundantly we are filled with this, reverently and humbly, the more we deserve his thanks and the more we benefit ourselves, and thus we may say, rejoicing, our Lord is our portion.26

The second aspect is hidden and closed to us (that is to say, everything which is not necessary for our salvation); for it is our Lord’s privy counsel and it is proper to the royal lordship of God that his privy counsel should be undisturbed,27 and it is proper for his servant, out of obedience and reverence, not to know his counsel too well. Our Lord feels pity and compassion for us because some people are so anxious to know about it; and I am sure that if we knew how much we would please him and set our own minds at rest by leaving the matter alone, then we would do so. The saints in heaven do not want to know anything except what our Lord wants to reveal to them, and their love and their desires are directed by our Lord’s will; our desires should be like theirs: then, like the saints, we should wish and desire nothing that is not the will of our Lord; for God’s purpose for us all is the same.

And here I was taught that we must rejoice only in our blessed Saviour Jesus and trust in him for everything.

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