Of all the Gifts God has given me, his Presence tops them all.

Of all the Gifts God has given me, his Presence tops them all

How often do we take time to give thanks to God for the many treasures he constantly pours into our persona?  Look at the essence of his presence that we rarely recognize, yet that is where he always exists each time our needs seem to stand before us.  I would dare to assume that for every gesture of grace we receive is taken for granted since we are a species with needs we are not able to produce on our own initiative,

When a difficulty appears in our daily quest to avoid pain, disappointment, or fear of losing our life, even atheists seek some help from an entity they proclaim they do not believe in.  Can you count the moments God reaches your greatest needs without even asking for them?  Here is where he suddenly appears in a silent gesture of assisting any of us without even asking.  This is the presence of God that has never left our side.  

Perhaps any of us might have placed the image of the Almighty far away and wondered if this unseen God would be watching for our faulty steps and react accordingly.  Open our mind to the reality of a constant condition of falling and have no idea of what to do by ourselves.  Here is where an unseen God is right there ready to keep us from becoming fodder to the evil of sin.  

The uncertainty of today’s world should put in our minds the need for God to be with us every moment of each step we encounter in the endless attacks from unexpected entities.  These existing nuances are more than happenstance, they are the very intrusions into our peace of mind and the virtue we must hold onto. 

Here is where our faith will be attacked by unseen atrocities whose total goal is to bring us into a world of demons and the waiting legions of souls already captured and laughing at our desire to please God.  We are living in a period of eternity, but on the fringe of that life with God who is eternal.  However, for each struggle that finds us at a rampart we cannot surpass without the total assistance of God’s presence opens the grace that will see us through until the next wall of evil confronts us.  

No longer is the thought of peace and the gracious ardor of untouchable attacks upon our humanness free from outside barrages of evil.  We are the very components of God’s creation that will live with him forever.  But, reaching that level of a divine presence depends solely on the grace of a loving Trinity that is watching, not from afar, but within our humanity and there throughout our trek in life.

Feel the fervor, passion, and warmth they produce within you and me as the very presence of God is already the ardor of a love we cannot even measure.  

Ralph B. Hathaway