God is love. He longs for our love also. One form of loving surrender to God is to live as Jesus did – poor, chaste, and abedient. Someone who lives in this way has head, heart, and hands free for God and neighbor. [914-933, 944-945]
In every age individual Christians let themselves be completely taken over by Jesus, so that “for the sake of kingdom of heaven” (Mt 19:12) they give everything away for God – even such wonderful gifts as their own property, self-determination, and married love. This life according to the -> EVANGELICAL COUNSELS in poverty, -> CHASTITY, and obedience shows all Christians that the world is not everything. Only an encounter with the divine Bridegroom “face to face” will ultimately make a person happy.
