‘By virtue of grace, I can grant you everything that my Son possesses by virtue of His divine nature’ (Inner Word).
As far as our nature is concerned, we are and will continue to be human beings, just as our heavenly Father created us. When we receive a resurrected body and are deemed worthy to spend eternity contemplating the Most Holy Trinity in communion with all the elect, our human nature will shine forth in all its beauty.
For now, we continue our earthly pilgrimage as God’s messengers, called to be the light of the world (Mt 5:14) and to bear witness to His love. Our Heavenly Father provides us with everything necessary to fulfil this mission and face all the struggles that we encounter on this journey. We can overcome all hardships and trials through divine grace. What our Lord Jesus Christ did by virtue of his divine nature, we can do by virtue of grace. In his Letter to the Corinthians, Saint Paul declares: ‘God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work.’ (2 Cor 9:8).
Grace, that is to say, help that comes from God Himself, will always be available to us if we live in a state of grace and remain in it. However, we must also fervently ask for divine grace. Of course, our Father is infinitely generous and bestows His gifts upon us of His own accord. Nevertheless, He loves it when we ask Him for them. Through this simple act of asking, our relationship with Him becomes more natural, and our Father takes pleasure simply in granting those requests from His children that are for their own good and the good of others.