“Once when I was being crushed by these dreadful sufferings, I went into the chapel and said from the bottom of my soul, “Do what You will with me, O Jesus; I will adore You in everything. May Your will be done in me, O my Lord and my God, and I will praise Your infinite mercy.” Through this act of submission, these terrible torments left me. Suddenly I saw Jesus, who said to me, I am always in your heart. An inconceivable joy entered my soul, and a great love of God set my heart aflame. I see that God never tries us beyond what we are able to suffer. Oh, I fear nothing; if God sends such great suffering to a soul, He upholds it with an even greater grace, although we are not aware of it. One act of trust at such moments gives greater glory to God than whole hours passed in prayer filled with consolations.” Divine Mercy in My Soul # 78
“Do with me what You will.” Such a powerful prayer. This is the pinnacle of trust and surrender. This echoes the prayer of Jesus in the garden, “not my will, but yours be done.” Luke 22:42
This is something I learned in my school of trust – God never tries us beyond what we are able. The situation may seem too much, overwhelming and crushing, a moment in the garden. The situation may even be beyond what we think we can handle. But, trust in God that He knows our true limits when we don’t. He knows how far we can be stretched – it may hurt and feel too much. Trust God.
When it is ‘more than we can handle’, this is the moment to surrender – “Do what You will with me, O Jesus; I will adore You in everything. May Your will be done in me, O my Lord and my God, and I will praise Your infinite mercy.” This is the moment in the storm in which Jesus tells the soul, “keep your eyes on Me.” Don’t look around at what others are dealing with or what they see of you, not downcast your eyes. Look straight ahead, unwaveringly into the eyes of Jesus.
It is in these moments of greatest trial that we see what we are capable of with God. It is in the hours within the darkness of the garden, alone and facing struggle, that we get our PHD IN TRUST.
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