Daniel helps to demand more and more from ourselves, remaining humble and serving of God. It is therefore the antidote of pride, but it also includes another possible risk, tied to too much availability to others, at the expense of God’s plan. If we let ourselves be guided by others, putting us fully at the service of all those around us, never stopping for a moment to listen to ourselves, or betraying ourselves and our intuitions and feelings to serve others. then our activity will never end, but will be oriented in the wrong direction, to satisfy our ego, who wants to feel loved and accepted, and the ego of others, who has perceived our talents and wants to exploit them for their own use and consumption .
One of the greatest temptations of those who have gone through a long spiritual journey is to feel come and to sit thinking they have reached a position where they can live in an annuity. Whoever works by doing the will of God can never live on an annuity. It is true that the Lord is a merciful judge, as Daniel reminds us, but this is why he must never be challenged. And to be considered to have come to a transition situation, such as that which today we live in on this earth, is truly a provocation to God and men.
No one of us is asked for more than we can give, just as we do not have any weights above those we can endure. But our ego always limits our work, in any case, because no one is without sin. We know that committing a sin is only possible if there is the conscience of error, and therefore making mistakes unknowingly is not a sin. But if reasoning becomes what we have done enough, that now others are moving, that we could not do more than we did, that what we did is the utmost for us, then we commit a sin, that is, of pride.
The pride of those who think they know more about the Father than to judge and weigh the situations by establishing the limits of the actions. Instead, the one who knows our limits is He. Whatever we did, we can always assume that we could do more. Science tells us that we only use the natural gifts that only in the least
we own. This may be right when it is related to the more general universal law, according to which nature tends to get the maximum result with the least energy expense.
Unfortunately, however, it is related to our pride, to the conviction of doing as much as possible. Those who have an educator experience know that there is nothing worse than seeing a particularly gifted disciple who, by presumption or pride, finishes in mediocrity when he may excel.
The same happens with our Heavenly Father, who, however, for our good fortune, is far more patient than we are. The synthesis of this discourse is that we are unable to establish our own limits, which are only known to Him, who has generated us. Therefore, however great the accomplishments we make, we can never base this on the presumption of having finished, having arrived, of having done everything possible.
Daniel Guardian Angel Psalm 144: 8 miserator et misericors Dominus patiens et multum misericors