How often have we been told that it is important that we love God. And this is true. But is it far more important that God loves us! Our love for God is secondary. God’s love for us is first: “This is the love I mean: not our love for God, but God’s love for us” (1 John 4:10). This is the foundation… “We ourselves have known and put our faith in God’s love towards ourselves” (1 John 4:16). This is the content of our faith–“God’s love towards ourselves.” The whole Apostles’ Creed is nothing but a statement twelve times over of belief in this very love which God has for us… God does not measure love. God cannot but love totally–100%. If we think God is a person who can divide his love, then we are thinking not of God but of ourselves. God is perfectly one, the perfect unity. We have love, but God is love. His love is not an activity. It is his whole self. If we but grasp some idea of this, we understand that God could not possibly give 100% of his love to his Son and then 70% to us. He would not be God if he could do that. When we read the dialogues of St. Catherine of Siena, we get the impression that God has nothing to do but simply occupy himself with Catherine. And that is right. The undivided attention of God is with her and with each of us. – Peter Van Breeman, S.J.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 22:10:09 +0000