I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart

Greetings,


Today I was meditating on the first reading, which was Moses’ encounter with God in the Burning Bush. When Moses asked for God’s name he was told that: “I am who am…. Tell them ‘I am’ sent you”. God is not just a being within creation, but rather he is being itself. He is the creator and he sustains all existence every second. This means that God is the Lord of all creation and beyond any comprehension of him. God is so far beyond our comprehension that we would know more by saying what God is NOT rather than who God is.

It is important to recognize how far above of God is. When we recognize this distance between us and God it leaves us in an AWE-inspired silence. Whenever we worship at Mass, whenever we come before God in prayer our first response before anything else is silence. It is when we stand before God in life changing adoration and awe that we will begin to have a real relationship with God. We begin with prayer recognizing that God initiates all communication and we begin are listeners. We need silence when we encounter God. Pausing for a minute after the homily or after communion is not enough. We are encountering God in the holy of holies of the Soul! As God speaks to us in silence we are swept up into the conversation of the most holy Trinity.

Jesus came from God to draw us back into God. All our life is a return to God. Christians all through the ages are drawn into this relationship of Jesus with his Father. We need to recognize who God is so that when we come before God in prayer, we will Adore, and worship in awe!

peace