The great Francois Fenelon (1651-1715) came to believe strongly that God is a living, active presence in a Christian’s life. He believed that more often than not, God is speaking to us in the so-called circumstance of life. If we look at them on a merely human plane, we may become confused, discouraged and or totally disillusioned with life; elf-pity and accusation of others may be our daily bread. But if we look to them as being part of God’s loving dealings with us, weaning us away from what is false and binding us more firmly to what is eternal, we begin to “hear God’s Word coming through these conditions.
We must yield ourselves to God and do according to His light what, at that time, seems best. But without hesitation, because hesitation would be confusing. First we must make our decision, then even if we have made a wrong decision, wrong will be turned to right by our right intention. God can do that! God will never blame us for what we have done for lack of advice as long as we are yielding ourselves to the simplicity of His Spirit.
God does not leave the soul at rest until He has made it supple and pliable by bending it from all sides. Flexibility and promptness in yielding to these stirrings is what advances the soul the most.
God does not allow our inner light to go any further than our strength for sacrifice. We would be frightened if we could see to how many things we still cling! We try to discover all our weaknesses, and God directs us in this search. But He refuses us a vision beyond our state of acceptance. He does not allow us to see in our hearts what it is not yet time to take away from them.
Let us then be content to follow without looking ahead, or judging others on their journeys. All the light which is given us from one moment to another, this is our daily bread… Let us be content to be faithful to the light of the present moment. It carries with it all that we need to prepare us for the light of the moment to follow. And this sequence of blessings – which connects one moment with another, like links of a chain – prepares us consciously for the further sacrifices which we have not even glimpsed.
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