What Love Says to Perfect Love

What Love Says to Perfect Love February 27, 2017

Thanks Mom. The treats were good, the prayer better!
Thanks Mom. The treats were good, the prayer better!

Faith is the voluntary response of our souls when God reveals Himself to our inner being. We know. It is intellectual, emotional, and physical! Of course, then (as Plato pointed) out, reason and experience can help us understand what God has shown us, but it is in the very nature of God, His goodness and truthfulness, that we place our hope.

We have faith seeking understanding.

This is the context of a very important prayer for Lent that my Mother shared with me:

O Jesus, I surrender myself to you,
take care of everything!

If you are not Roman Catholic (as I am not), then let go of what is wrong and see the joy in surrender. This is not self-abasement, this is what love says to Love. There is joy in knowing that God has a plan and that all will be right in the end. Evil is real and the world is not as it was made to be, but the foundations are still His foundations.

We will reach home, however lost we seem, because this is the world He made. We might pause, however. Skepticism is not bad. The vision is not in doubt, we had the experience, but that is not enough. What if we are fooling ourselves? This is where reason comes, not to give us faith, but to serve as a helper to faith. It strips away our misinterpretations, our misunderstandings. Reason can even confirm some very basic things about the Beloved: He is, He is creator.

However, it is God’s revelation to us and the faith that He stirs within us that gives us the hope, desire, love to experience just a moment of bliss. This is not the result of external pressure and it does not strip me of personality. Instead, when I pray, useless worry and care is reduced.

I do not, as a result, think less, but think less about myself and the false fears and worries over things I cannot control. You might assert that goodness exists, and that you can live a good life, but without God, you cannot know that good will come to you. God knows good will come to you, to all you love, and to all who give themselves to Him.

The good news is that while we are required by love to believe that God will allow us to say “no” to Him, he is not a stalker. We have hope for any soul. We do not know what God shows us at the hour of our death . . . what is revealed and since we know by faith and by reason that He is good, we can have hope.

God is very persuasive! At the end of this school for souls, we fall into the hands of perfect Justice, but also perfect Love. God have mercy, but this is so wonderful.

The point is this: God might use us to bring healing, or find cures, or fight evil, but we need not come at any good deed from anxiety. God will do it and our spiritualized worry and anxiety does nothing. Mentally grinding over our fears is useless . . .

And, of course, the balance is that we sometimes bring all our hatred, anger, and sorrow to God raw: read the Psalms! There is, however, the balancing truth that we can trust the good, sovereign Lover with absolute surrender and at the end of all time to take care of everything: now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

 


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