2687. 'For she said, Let me not see the death of the boy' means grief that [spiritual truth] would thus perish. This is clear from the meaning of 'seeing the death' as perishing, and from the meaning of 'the boy' as spiritual truth, dealt with above. From this and from the feeling of despair because truth has been made desolate it is evident that it is a more interior grief that these words hold within them.

The Lord created us to be separate from Himself, so that He could love us. He thus allows us to act contrary to His will -- to want what is evil and to believe what is false. When we accept the Lord, though -- by learning what's true and determining to live according to it -- we can let Him place inside us a love for what is good. That is our "inheritance.