What is it that is the distinguishing mark of obedience of the angels and saints in Heaven? It is that they do the will of God, not for any reward, but simply and solely because it is God's will. In the joy of the Beatific Vision their will is so perfectly united to God's, that the mere fact of doing the will of God is for them perfect happiness. This is what we have to try to imitate. Our life will become a sort of Heaven on earth, when our greatest enjoyment consists in doing God's work without the thought of any earthly reward, save the consciousness that we are carrying out His will.

The blessed in Heaven also find their delight in witnessing the accomplishment of God's purposes. They never regret anything that happens, but they regard every event as something in which they can find satisfaction, simply because God has so ordained it. We on earth often find it hard to acquiesce in God's arrangements. We wish God had willed otherwise. If we are to be like the angels and saints in Heaven, we must look at the bright side of everything, and must never regret anything that God has ordained for ourselves or others.

The blessed in Heaven enjoy the most perfect liberty. Hence there can be no true liberty in the power to commit sin, and in running counter to God's holy will. The liberty to sin is a sort of bondage. When every sin becomes practicably impossible to us, then we shall enjoy true freedom, and shall be like to the saints in Heaven. Then, we shall be like to God Himself, and shall be fit to see Him as He is.