Life in itself is a Mystery and that is why God created each of us!

Life in itself is a Mystery and that is why God created each of us!

We could scoff at the idea that a mystery is far beyond our comprehension each time the world seems to twist and change the very elements of human desires and leaves many in a condition of misunderstanding with our creation.

Most of these confusing elements become our own misguided aspirations each time we try to question the reasons by ourselves.  The one statement that God spoke to himself (the Trinity) has become just a slight mention during our creation which we have overlooked; “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” (Gn 1: 26).  Creation is the key word of God to want a species that would love him in return for his generous love that perceives all and any other type of gratitude, created or imagined.  The most intriguing theme we all must adhere to, is without God none of us could exist and without the Passion that Christ took upon himself to redeem each of us is the only way we can reach out and receive his eternal hands to bring us back.  

If there is a mystery that calls for our accepting the very graciousness of God, it is unlocked before our eyes and the eternal soul that God implants within each of us when he created our being and there is no question as to where and who has each of us in his hands.  

Watching how man has become a puppet to the demons that walk beside us every day waiting for our willingness to move without the grace that our faith has held onto that God has given to each one who confesses that Christ is our Savior and that alone is enough.  We must walk with the Holy Spirit that Christ has given to us and protect the Sacrament of Baptism that surely is the strength of holiness that God surrounds us with.

One word that Jesus gave to his disciples was; “If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.  If I had not done works among them that no one else did, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and hated both me and my Father.  But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, “They hated me without cause.”  (Jn 15: 18, 20, 24 - 25).

The world has turned to violence, not only with brutal actions on the human bodies but with slander and speech that reaches deep into the psyche of the soul.  Look at the many outward blasphemous remarks against Jesus and how he was quick to pronounce their own dismay of condemnation:  Then they brought to him a demoniac who was blind and mute.  He cured the mute person so that he could speak and see.  All the crowd was astounded, and said, “Could this perhaps be the Son of David?”  But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man drives out demons only by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons.”  But he knew what they were thinking and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and no town or house divided against itself will stand..  And if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how, then, will his kingdom stand?  And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out?  Therefore they will be your judges.  But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.”  (Mt 12: 22 - 28).

Ralph B. Hathaway