“I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Eph 3:18-19
God’s attitude toward us is one of whole, eternal and everlasting love. Salvation is from love, from God seeking to convince us of the great love in which God holds us. It is positively primitive, even barbaric, to think that we have to appease God for our sins. Yes, in Lent we look at our lives and repent of our sins. But what does Jesus say? Repent and believe the good news. Believe in this, that God so loves the world and each one of us that he sent his Son to share our human life to the full. And for us to realize that to the full means Resurrection from the dead.
Love is at the heart of all that Jesus did on earth. We are saved by believing in God’s love. The love God has for us is always available. It is not conditioned by our behavior. So when we acknowledge our sins, we gradually begin to realize that these come from our wounded false self. They do not diminish God’s love, for the love of God is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit at all time. What our sins do is somehow block our awareness of love and this is why we need to distinguish our true self from our false self. I believe that our sins come from insufficient belief in the unconditional Love which God has for us!
I love something Thomas Merton said in a conference on Prayer: “The great central thing in Christian faith and hope is the courage to realize oneself and to accept oneself as loved by God even though one is not worthy.”
When we take the time to meditate, for 20 minutes we let go of our thoughts and images and entrust ourselves, our superficial selves, our surface selves, and our deep selves, false self and true self, to LOVE who is God. For this half hour we just let God do in us as His love desires.
Let us pray.
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