When you
don’t live with Christ, you live in melancholy, in sorrow, in anxiety
and in worry. You don’t live properly. Then all sorts of abnormalities
appear, even in our organism. The body’s affected, the endocrinal
glands, the liver, the gall bladder, the pancreas and the stomach.
People tell you: ‘If you want to be healthy, drink your milk in the
morning, eat your egg, your butter and a couple of slices of toast’. But
if you live with Christ, if you love Christ, you’ll be fine with an
orange or an apple. The best medicine is to devote yourself to the
worship of Christ. Everything’s cured. Everything works properly. God’s
love transforms everything, reconstructs it, sanctifies it, rectifies
it, changes it and transmutes it
Burning love for Christ is something
else. It’s not the end, it’s not satiety. It gives life, it gives
resilience, it gives health, it gives, it gives, it gives… And the more
it gives, the more we want to be in love. Human love can diminish us,
can send us crazy. When we love Christ, all other loves recede. Other
loves have a saturation point, but love for Christ doesn’t. Carnal love
has a saturation point. After that, there might come jealousy, nagging
and even murder. It can be transformed into hatred. Love in Christ
doesn’t alter. Worldly love lasts a short time and then slowly dies,
whereas divine love increases and deepens. Any other kind of love can
drive us to despair. But divine love raises us up into the sphere of
God, it gives us serenity, joy and fulfillment. Other pleasures fatigue
us, but this is never satisfied. It’s an unquenchable pleasure which you
never tire of. It’s the greatest of blessings.
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