From the eternal existence of God comes the Grace we cannot explain without Christ

From the eternal existence of God comes the grace we cannot explain

This is one word or entity that we hear mentioned all the time and without its presence would leave each of us in a quandary.  Take the most insignificant event and allow it to become a festering attack upon our peaceful existence and watch how we react with anger, frustration, and a call to God for help.

Grace is the help God gives us to respond to our vocation of becoming his adopted sons.  It introduces us into the intimacy of theTrinitarian life.  (CCC 2021).

No one can merit the initial grace which is at the origin of conversion.  Moved by the Holy Spirit, we can merit for ourselves and for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life, as well as necessary temporal goods.  (CCC 2027).

Getting a grasp on what this known gift from God is all about, we must be open to what he is giving us without taking it and him for granted.  However, this action which is divine adherence within the human heart must be understood to carry with it a genuine faith.  

Man’s faculties make him capable of coming to a knowledge of the existence of a personal God.  But for man to be able to enter into real intimacy with him, God willed both to reveal himself and to give him the grace of being able to welcome this revelation in faith.  The proofs of God ‘s existence, however, can predispose one to faith and help one to see that faith is not opposed to reason. (CCC 35).

We now are capable of calling on the grace that can only come from God, in the Trinitarian manner.   Like holiness grace is not a textbook study that we earn.  All blessings can only come through the Holy Spirit’s initiative of placing our spiritual capacity within his hands and then following the grace given journey that places us on the firing line of bringing peace to others by our willing acceptance of God’s love and adherence of his divine existence.

Viewing many people who seem to get beyond a near tragedy or overcoming something that makes us wonder about where it came from.  We may say it was grace that got them through.  And of course that is exactly what occurred.  God’s grace is not necessarily born within us, yet with God residing in our own individual humanity his grace will also be there.  It just requires an opportunity to appear more often than not.  Faith then opens the door to allow God’s graciousness to completely take our needs and extend his concern upon us at the appropriate moment.   

Grace is a participation in the life of God.  It introduces us into the intimacy of Trinitarian life: by Baptism the Christian participates in the grace of Christ, the Head  of his Body.  As an adopted son he can henceforth call God Father, in union with the only Son.  He receives the life of the Spirit who breathes charity into him and who forms the Church.  (CCC 1997).

The grace of the Holy Spirit confers upon us the righteousness of God.  Uniting us by faith and Baptism to the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, the Spirit makes us sharers in his life.  (CCC 2017).  

Ralph B. Hathaway