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Give Him Your Will
"He who gives his goods in alms, his blood and scourging, his food and fasting, gives God what he has. But he who gives God his will gives himself, gives everything he is." —St. Alphonsus Liguori
We can give God a lot of things. Our money. Our time. Our sacrifices. Our disciplines.
But giving God our will? That's giving Him everything.
I think we underestimate: the agency we have in our own lives.
We can't just wake up one day and have everything we've ever dreamed of. But we can put in the work. We can choose the activities that drive us toward the outcomes we want.
There are two questions in that:
First: What activities will drive the outcomes I want?
Second: Does God want those outcomes for me? Does He want me doing those activities?
That's where we give Him our will.
We're not just giving God what we do. We're giving Him what we hope for. We're surrendering both the activities and the outcomes to His will.
This is hard because we have real agency. We make real choices. We work toward real goals.
But giving God our will means means saying, "Lord, I'm working toward this, but if You want something different, I'm Yours."
That's giving everything we are.
Let us pray.
Lord, we give You our will. Not just our actions, but our hopes. Not just what we're doing now, but what we're working toward. We offer You everything in Jesus' name. Amen.
Keep fighting the good fight. Our Lady of Victory, pray for us.
