Who Is god, And How Do We Best Relate To Him?

Who is God, And How Do We Best Relate To Him?

Eileen Renders

   This is a topic, I believe, because of God’s mystifying essence, we do not know how to relate to Him, other than through our human nature. That is either male or female. And because we are human beings, we are incapable of understanding the power and abilities that belong only to our creator. Many passages in the Catholic bible refer to “God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.” We are taught to believe that there are three persons in One God.

   Because we have not seen God, and God the Son took on a human form to come down to Earth to sacrifice His life to save us, we inevitably depict Jesus as man, as he did come to us in human form. Yet this is not to say that Jesus cannot take on or have other forms, for He is God. “The Father is in Me as I am in the Father.”

   The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “God transcends the human distinction between sexes. He is neither man nor woman: He is God.”

In Isaiah 42:14 compares God to a woman in labor.

Isaiah 49:15 and 66:13 liken God’s tenderness to that of a mother consoling her child.

Psalms 22;10-11 and Isaiah 66:9 depict God as a midwife.

   Our Pastor reminded us of this interesting fact in his Homily this past Sunday. A fact that I had known, yet was tucked away in the back of my mind as I had not reflected on this mystery for some time.

  God is beyond time, hours or minutes, He is beyond being categorized as a specific gender. God we know can be anywhere and everywhere within the same moment. There are so many faith mysteries regarding our creator, our God. We, as His creatures do know of His existence, and to know Him (yes Him), we must accept those mysteries as part of our faith.

   We also refer to Him as male because of many parables in the Bible, such as; Jesus referring to His Father in Heaven who sent Him to us to be sacrificed on the Cross and to save us from our sins. We have been taught that there are three persons in One God; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Therefore, it is natural for us as human beings to refer to God as “Him” as He came to us in flesh and blood like us.

   It is also important to occasionally reflect upon God and what we know He encompasses. And remember that God can do all things, be all things, and be in all places. He sees each of us and knows our hearts' truest feelings.