Today's meditation: The strength to love is in ourselves

The love of God is not an act imposed on man from the outside, but arises spontaneously from the heart like other goods that respond to our nature. We have learned from others neither to enjoy the light, nor to desire life, much less to love our parents or our educators. So therefore, indeed much more, the love of God does not derive from an external discipline, but is found in the same natural constitution of man, as a germ and a force of nature itself. The spirit of man has the ability and also the need to love.
The teaching makes aware of this strength, helps to cultivate it with diligence, to nourish it with ardor and to bring it, with the help of God, to its maximum perfection. You have tried to follow this path. As we acknowledge it, we want to contribute, with the grace of God and for your prayers, to make this spark of divine love ever more alive, hidden in you by the power of the Holy Spirit.
First of all, let us say that we have previously received the strength and the ability to keep all the divine commandments, so we do not bear them reluctantly as if something higher than our strength is required of us, nor are we obliged to repay more than how much has been given to us. So when we make a right use of these things, we lead a life rich in all virtues, while, if we misuse them, we fall into vice.
In fact, the definition of vice is this: bad and alien use from the precepts of the Lord of the faculties that he has given us to do good. On the contrary, the definition of the virtue that God wants from us is: right use of the same abilities, which derives from good conscience according to the mandate of the Lord.
The rule of good use also applies to the gift of love. In our own natural constitution we possess this strength to love even if we cannot demonstrate it with external arguments, but each of us can experience it by himself and in himself. We, by natural instinct, desire everything that is good and beautiful, although not everyone seems the same to be good and beautiful. Likewise we feel in us, even if in unconscious forms, a special availability towards those who are close to us either by kinship or by coexistence, and we spontaneously embrace with sincere affection those who do us good.
Now what could be more admirable than divine beauty? What thought is more pleasing and softer than the magnificence of God? What desire of the soul is as vehement and strong as that infused by God into a soul purified of all sin and which says with sincere affection: I am wounded by love? (cf.Cts 2, 5). Ineffable and unspeakable are therefore the splendors of divine beauty.