They Who Are Well Guided

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Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone does love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything that is in the world—the concupiscence of the flesh, the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. And the world with all its enticements is passing away, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. • 1 John 2:15-17 • Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 5:56 AM • Subject: They Who Are Well Guided • Saint John of The Cross (ⴕ1591) is called the mystical Saint • They who are well guided from the outset do not become attached to visible instruments, nor burden themselves with them. They do not care to know any more than what is necessary to accomplish good works, because their eyes are fixed only upon God, upon being his friend and pleasing him; this is what they long for. They very generously give all they have. Their pleasure is to know how to live for love of God or neighbor without these spiritual or temporal things. As I said, their eyes are fastened on the substance of interior perfection, and pleasing God and not themselves. • Yet until a soul is placed by God in the passive purgation of that dark night, it cannot purify itself completely from these imperfections nor from the others. But a person should insofar as possible strive to do their part in purifying and perfecting themself and thereby merit God's divine cure; in this cure God will heal them of what, through their own efforts, were unable to remedy. No matter how much an individual does through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themself enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge each person in that fire that is dark for them.

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