Where do we fit in the essence of God's Glory?

Where do we fit in the essence of God’s Glory?

How do we know if we have been lifted beyond the very tenets of God’s desire to relate his role of supreme divinity?  What are the words he has given to prophets so we may read and understand his purpose for us?  

Remember this and be firm, bear it well in mind, you rebels; remember the former things, those long ago:  I am God, there is no other; I am God, there is none like me.  At the beginning I foretell the outcome;  in advance, things not yet done.  I say that my plan shall stand.  I accomplish my every purpose.  (Is 46: 8 - 10)

In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ.  (Eph 1: 11 - 12). 

He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not too far from any one of us.  (Acts 17: 26 - 27). 

God transcends creation and is present to it:  God is infinitely greater than all his works:  You have set your glory above the heavens.  “Indeed, God’s greatness is unsearchable.”  But because he is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to his creatures’ inmost being.”  In the words of St. Augustine, God is “higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self.”  (CCC 300). 

To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in his providence by entrusting them with the responsibility of  “subduing” the earth and having dominion over it.  God thus enables men to be intelligent and free causes in order to complete the work of creation, to perfect its harmony for their own good and that of their neighbors.  Though often unconscious collaborators with God’s will, they can also enter deliberately into the divine plan by their actions, their prayers, and their sufferings.  They then fully become “God’s fellow workers” and co-workers for his kingdom  (CCC 307).  

We all are chosen to be one with God in whatever role each is fitted for through the talents each has been blessed with.  As I wrote before, the gifts that many have but are timid to use because someone may ask you why waste your time?  If you indeed have that talent, God expects you to use it, not to compete with others but to touch that one person the Holy Spirit sends to your giftedness.   

Ralph B.Hathaway