The Intricacy of God!

The Intricacy of God!

How complex the Holy Spirit is in all of the many mysteries that surround our Creator.  There are more avenues of his being that we could ever dream of let alone identify.  Whatever adjective we want to attach to God and his mysterious presence, the closed relevance to the finite mind is total and too far from knowing how to place our ideas into an understandable solution.

Perhaps there might be some, including myself, who want to learn these hidden entities that exist within our humanity that welcome a desire to learn in some fashion just what these mean in our quest of life.  Of course I am reminded of how Augustine wrestled in his mind to understand the Trinity, to no avail.  His dream of an angel, as a child to the Saint, pouring the ocean into a hole in the sand.  When Augustine told him he couldn’t do that, the angel told him, “Neither will you Augustine ever understand the Trinity.”  

That does not mean the finite mind, once it sees all the mysterious events that astound us are not to be searched.   It is finding a solution that will satisfy the mind of man.  However, God didn't directly tell man that he was not allowed to wonder at the divine mysteries, man’s appetite is to find out what God is all about and becomes a puzzle that we do not need in order to live.  

Ultimately our quest is not to become an equal with God, but to share some of the hidden elements of the divine in order to tell others just who God is and the reasons he created man.  I like to reiterate the words of Jesus from the priestly prayer before his passion; “I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so they may all be one, as you Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be one in us, and the world may believe that you sent me.  And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me.”  (Jn 17: 20 - 23).  Of course this was directed to his disciples, but filters down to you and me.  

These are not words to fill a narrative but a direct promise of the connection of the divine to the human persons that live with God now and forever.  Get closer to Christ through his Holy Spirit and you will feel the essence of God’s touch upon your heart and find a desire to know Him intimately.  

Remember the words during the preparation of the wine before the consecration; “Through the mystery of this water and wine may come to share in his divinity as he shared in our humanity.”

Our unison is real and so is our quest to get to know as much as he’ll allow us to explore.  

Ralph B. Hathaway