Sometimes God is quiet and seems so far away. Ironically some feel that it is then that we are probably closer that day to God than any other day in our life. How is this possible, we ask? How can God be close to us (or we to God) when God seems so far away or not at all?
Well, think about it for a bit. God is the supreme mystery of humble love.
It is a mystery that you and I cannot reason or try to figure out.
We must simply live with and in the mystery who is God.
To grasp something of the mystery of God and the mystery of God’s humility does not take education but much time in prayer where we can distance ourselves from our thoughts and fears and from the busy everyday world. When we can put knowledge of others outside, the passion of God, the supreme lover, can enter. You see, it is love, not knowledge, that allows us to come face to face with the mystery of God. Our brains can do noting but keep us distant. And this is a good thing because it evens the playing field because everyone, absolutely everyone, can come close to the mystery of God.
So join me today to spend time alone, far away from everything and everyone, and allow God to draw us into the great mystery who is God.
Here we will discover the overflowing goodness of God and the humility of God. Jesus Christ will draw us in by inviting us to think deeply about and to imitate the poor and humble Christ.
When our life is deepened in God, our desire to give ourself to Christ who bent over in love for every person and every creature. By following the poor and humble Christ we will fall in love with Christ. And we will discover that the God of humble love is not to be found among the popular and the proud, the arrogant and the rich or those who “stand out” in society, but among the ordinary, the forgotten, the poor and sick and the marginalized. God really delights to be with the simple and those rejected by the world.
So if you are hurting today, turn to Christ.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.
From the Bible:
“But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you”Matthew 6:6.
“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God” Romans 8:26-27.
“O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether” Psalm 139:1-4.
“And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed” Mark 1:35.
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