Everyday is the Lord's Day; especially when we give him Praise

Everyday is the Lord’s Day, especially when we give him Praise

Never tire from giving praise and honor to the Lord who created us with one thought in mind:  To share what is his greatest attribute;  Love without end.  Too many people end up taking this gift of our Creator for granted never thinking that this will become an insult to the divinity of the Holy Trinity.  How easy it is to forget what our biological parents gave us to ensure we have all that we need in starting our adult lives.  Should we not also give that same respect to God?

Most Christians believe the catechetical teaching that brings us closer to God is a truth that we adhere to even if the deeper understanding of his mysteries remain beyond the finite mind of man.  

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 to man 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).

“Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice.”  Although man can forget God or reject him, He never ceases to call every man to seek him, so as to find life and happiness.  But this search for God demands of man every effort of intellect, a sound will, “an upright heart,” as well as the witness of others who teach him to seek God.   (CCC 30).

You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and your wisdom is without  measure.  And man, so small a part of your creation, wants to praise you:  this man, though clothed with mortality and bearing the evidence of sin and the proof that you withstand the proud.  Despite everything, man, though but a small part of your creation, wants to praise you.  You yourself encourage him to delight in your praise , for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.  (St. Augustine, Confessions).

To think that giving God all the praise and glory is beyond the finiteness of man’s weak desires of putting God first, we must remember our need to find the holiness that is God and he will share the same with us should be the end of searching since he calls us to holiness.  

“We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him….For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren.  And those whom he predestined he also called; and those he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.”  (CCC 2012).

Our call is not only a thought floating in the wind, it is the mandate to assure our place with him in eternity and no one is excluded.  The beginning of each prayer I utter begins with; ”Lord, we/I offer you all the praise and glory (time element according to where and when I pray) and thank you for the blessings on those I pray for, and ask for your grace on all of them, Amen.  Praise and glory is the subject of a mantra I use.  

Ralph B. Hathaway