Sometimes I hear people talk about God as a very gruff, long-bearded King who sits on His throne throwing down thunderbolts, especially when He is angry with our behavior. But I feel God is eager to love, to forgive, to help, to care, to fill us with His unending grace as a kind of overflowing fountain of life-giving water. God is love Himself! While all are metaphors, God is an overflowing fountain generously showering all of creation with love. God is like a song that must be heard for the song to be known. His self-revelation in Jesus Christ is like a book written from the heart and consciousness of God. God is like an artist of all creation, and all created things are the expression of the divine Artist.
As John says in His Gospel writings God is Light that reveals something of the Creator like the array of colored glass in a stained-glass pane, which flashes with dynamic hues as sunlight passes through it. God imbues the world with Divine goodness. When we look at the broken and dead Jesus on the Cross, the crucified Christ, we see the humble, unselfish love of God so that we may learn to see and love the presence of God’s overflowing goodness hidden, and yet revealed, in the marvelous diversity of creation. The one who contemplates God, the one who thinks deeply about God, knows the world to be charged with the splendid grandeur of God. Prayer and contemplation lead to a solidarity — and unity — with all creation wherein all our sorrows are shared in a heart of compassionate love, all tears are gathered in a womb of mercy, all pain is healed by the balm of forgiveness. The one who prays and contemplates sees the threads of God’s overflowing love that binds together the whole of creation in a web of infinite love. We are called to see deeply that we may love greatly. And in that great love, rejoice in the overflowing goodness of God.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.
From the Bible:
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth” John 4:24.
“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love” 1 John 4:8.
“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” 1 John 4:16.
“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he” Deuteronomy 32:4.
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