The same God who loves us as we are also loves us to much to leave us as we are. Perhpas because we tend to hold to ideas about God that reflect our own suppositions and fears, more than Gods self-revelation. We reduce God to our own dimensions, ascribing to him our own reactions and responses, especially our own petty and conditional kind of love, and so end up believing in a God cast in our own image and likeness. But the true God, the living God, is entirely other:. Precisely from this radical otherness derives the inscrutable and transcendent nature of divine love-- for which our limited human love is but a distant metaphor. Gods love is much more than our human love simply multiplied and expanded. Gods love for us will ever be mystery; unfathomable, awesome, entirely beyond human expectation. Precisely because Gods love is something no eyes has seen, nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived (1 Cor 2:9), Mother Teresa meditated on it continuously, and encouraged us to do the same, to continue plumbing this mystery more deeply. To this end she invites us: Try to deepen your understanding of these two words, Thirst of God.;”
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:37:04 +0000
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