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He Takes Away His Gifts To Give Himself

7 Oct 2022 by Joshua Nickel

In order to truly abandon yourself to him, you must learn to distinguish between him and his gifts. One way this happens is through the trial of your senses, when your familiar and comfortable ways of connecting to God seem to have passed away.

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade

Hear the Question That the Present Moment Asks You

6 Oct 2022 by Joshua Nickel

Although you cannot always be in the house of the Lord, you can take that house with you, making your surroundings into a holy temple, and the attitude of your heart into a spiritual sacrifice.

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade

Is God Getting What Is Rightfully His?

5 Oct 2022 by Joshua Nickel

You have no rights over yourself; you belong totally to God. Are you threatened by this or relieved? And how threatened are you, or how relieved? This will be the measure of your abandonment to God.

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade

Be About Your Father’s Business and You Will Easily Forget Yourself

4 Oct 2022 by Joshua Nickel

When you try to forget yourself, your attention is on your own efforts. You need something bigger to focus on until you lose sight of yourself. The good news is that there is nothing bigger than God himself, and your business is to be occupied with him.

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade

You See Through Creation When You See Creation as It Truly Is

3 Oct 2022 by Joshua Nickel

Jean Pierre de Caussade promises us that we will be able to see through created things. But this does not happen how we might expect it to. We do not render created things transparent; instead, we see them more clearly. It is when we “see created things as they truly are” that we see the Creator behind them.

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade

Forget the Usual Ways of Doing Things; Simplify and You Can Leave Them Behind

2 Oct 2022 by Joshua Nickel

Suffering simplifies. Let it simplify your abandonment to God. Few things are truly essential. Jean Pierre de Caussade reduces it to three: “love God, fulfill your duties, and flee from sin.”

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade

You Have Been Given the Power To Be Satisfied

1 Oct 2022 by Joshua Nickel

The water is with you wherever you go. But still, you must drink. The Spirit comes from within and satisfies you, so that you can then be satisfied with what the Spirit is doing around you. The active presence of God connects your inward life with your outward circumstances.

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade

Only One Action Will Quench Your Thirst

30 Sep 2022 by Joshua Nickel

Curiosity itself is always good, and only increases with holiness. The danger is in feeding the mind at the expense of the spirit.

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade

The Presence of God Satisfies the Heart Like Nothing Else Can

29 Sep 2022 by Joshua Nickel

Job was a deeply spiritual man, yet his intellectual knowledge of God was no match for a direct encounter. The advice of his friends only made things worse. God’s presence, however, instantly cured him of his delusions.

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade

Do Not Decide What To Submit To, but Be Ready for Anything

28 Sep 2022 by Joshua Nickel

The apostle Paul was talking about money when he said, “God loves a cheerful giver,” but the same thing can be said about the gift of yourself. The delivering over of your entire being into the hands of God is the gift he seeks from you.

Categories Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jean Pierre de Caussade
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