Sunday 21A, 2008
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Today’s second reading is taken from St. Paul’s letter
to the Galatians. We heard that he wrote:
“How rich are the depths of God – how deep his wisdom
and knowledge – how impossible to penetrate his motives
or understand his methods – who could ever know
the mind of the Lord?”
This coming from Saint Paul who knew God
better than most people before or since.
So can we get to know God? Can he be known? What is our experience?
We know that He seeks to be known, the Bible testifies to that.
Could he perhaps make himself visible for all time
so that every one could always see him?
That will come about in heaven.
Here on earth he would have to take on some material form
for us to see him and that would not be all of God only the form which he adopted.
He adopted human form in the person of Jesus Christ.
He conducted himself according to divine nature
yet NOT many people believed that he was the Incarnate God.
He is also present in every material thing there is.
He is in the bricks and mortar, in the furniture,
in the food we eat, in the plants we water, in the car we drive.
He is in the Sun and the Moon, in the distant galaxies
to the edge of the Universe.
He is in you and me,
in every one of us.
So we can see God in a million and more different shapes
and forms.
The big challenge for us is to accept that God is indeed
in all these things, in you and me and in the entire
material world.
The challenge is to accept that there is no real separation,
only imaginary separation from God or from each other
or from nature, or from the material world.
There is only oneness and real unity in all Creation which is in God.
Because this oneness of creation we hurt or destroy anything
at our peril.
Whatever we do to each other and whatever
we do to the environment we do it to ourselves.
Only actions motivated by love of all Creation cannot hurt us.
Love of all Creation gives us also knowledge of God
the Creator.
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