147 part i: sunday meditations for the entire year sins. Indeed, if you would drench your bed with tears and soak your couch with weeping every night together with the sinful king and sincere penitent44 (cf. Ps 6:6), then the springs of your heart would become sweet indeed, and its dry earth would produce extraordinary fruits of virtue. It usually happens that when a bitter recollection of sins elicits streams of tears from a spiritual man, then the Divine Goodness transforms them into sweet nectar, and an immense sweetness penetrates his spirit. 3. “Do whatever [H]e tells you” (Jn 2:5). Just as the disciples’ dedication and obedience, roused in them by the encouragement of the Blessed Mother who understood the will of her omnipotent Son, were necessary for performing the miracle at Cana, so also all works to be accomplished in you and through you by divine grace, as well as all favors that the good Lord will grant you, require the consent of your will, your concurrence, and your cooperation. For what good could He achieve through you if you resist His command and will? What would be the use of entrusting, commissioning, and inspiring you, if you are not inclined to obeying and carrying out? Therefore, if you wish to rejoice in the heavenly wedding, there is nothing else to do but learn to conform your will to His will. If you wish to reign for all eternity together with the all-good God in the Kingdom prepared by the Eternal Father for His slaves, it is necessary that you be obedient, docile, and serve Him most zealously right now. Many have fallen from grace because of doing their own will; on the other hand, many rose from the great depths of evil deeds and attained the blessed haven because they conformed their will to the will of God and were obedient to it. Just like the righteous man would be excluded from the abode of eternal life if disobedient, [f.17r] which was demonstrated and proven in Saul (cf. 1 Sam 15:1-26; 31:1-6); so also, the sinner would gain life 44 St. Stanislaus is referring here to King David, in whom we see an example of true and sincere repentance.
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