Surrender to God’s will.

In every good deed, our human activity is connected to action, God’s will. Indeed, this is not how two horses with equal strength are harnessed to the same cart. A better picture is the hand that writes with a pen. The writing then corresponds to both the pen and the hand. The cell, however, is a dead instrument. The human will is free. Therefore, it must submit to the direction of God’s hand freely. “Perfection,” as St. Vincent of Pauly writes, ” is that we unite our will with the will of God in such a way that his and our will are one will and will not. St. Anselm says that the joy of the angels in heaven is therefore complete, that they may unreservedly submit to the will of God. We humans on earth can offer God’s will more or less ideally.
The booklet Following Christ speaks of complete surrender, “resignation,” but makes no secret of the fact that there are few who sincerely experience it. Various degrees are therefore mentioned.

At the first stage are those who have decided to submit to God’s will, wherever it is evident from the commandment. They do not want to sin. Already this decision is a great thing and not easily accomplished. And yet it is still far from the perfect surrender expressed in the words of Christ, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. (Lk. 23:46); Father, not my will, but your will be done! (Lk 22,42).
By distinguishing explicit commands from so-called counsels, Catholic moral scholarship has also acknowledged the incompleteness of written moral laws. They are only the primary fundamental directives. A living relationship with God is more profound and more personal. We pray: that Thy will be done! If we say this from the fullness of our hearts, we are reconciled to all God does in the world and how He intervenes in our lives. St. Cassian writes that no one can
pray for the Father from the depths of his soul if he does not believe that they are equally for our good, the things that do not go well with us as those that God cares more for our salvation than we care for ourselves.
It is, therefore, preferable to conceive of God’s will not as law, which only enjoins and forbids, but rather as a good mother who cares for the child’s every step. We are increasingly convinced of what St. Augustine writes: “Do  outwardly nothing that the Almighty does not will; be it permitted, it to happen, or he does it.” The moral conclusion from this truth is the holy detachment that the Gospel commends: Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, neither 0 your flesh, what you will eat. Thy life is no more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: They sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them (Mal. 6:25-26).