Conformity to the Will of God.
“Not my will, but Thine be done.” — St. Matt. 36:39
FIFTEENTH DAY.
If you give yourself to the exercise of holy abandonment, you will make much progress. It will be with you as with those out at sea with a Favorable wind, abandoning themselves to the guidance of a good pilot. — St. Francis of Sales.
The prayer of St. Gertrude to God must have been agreeable to Him. She said with greatest fervor: “Lord, I beg Thee have no regard for my will, but only for Thine. Do with me what Thou knowest will tend most to Thy glory and to my good. I have no other desire but to be and to do what Thou wilt. No, my most amiable Saviour, let it not be my will that I do any will but Thine. Non mea, sed tua voluntas fiat, Jesu amantissime.”
Prayer.
My God, I will only what Thou willest, I wish to be what Thou willest, and as Thou willest.