God's Blessings are always innumerable!

God’s Blessings are always Innumerable!

Take a moment to consider the many blessings that you have received over the years; or even in the last 24 hours.  For most people, and perhaps all of us, these are more than we may be able to enumerate if indeed our recollection is true in the divine entity of grace.  Too often the ease of believing that some things are just luck or perhaps by chance our luck has held on.

If for a moment the thought of luck becomes a mantra in our imagination, think again.  There is no such thing as luck when it comes to divine intervention or the blessings that appear constantly when God is involved.  Luck and chance are not part of God’s probability.    

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 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).

When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that this revelation did not come “from flesh and blood.”  but “my Father who is in heaven.”  Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by him.  “Before this faith can be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he must have the interior help of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and makes it easy for all to accept and believe the truth.”  (CCC 153).

For us to believe that all of this truth is just hyper-bole we need to understand that the very words of Jesus, not just to his disciples - but to us, are the very prose we must adhere to.  We cannot stray from what is truth; we must listen to the Catechetical teaching that comes from God through the Church.

Following the steps of the prophets and John the Baptist, Jesus announced the judgment of the Last Day in his preaching.  Then with the conduct of each one and the secrets of hearts be brought to light.  Then will the culpable unbelief that counted the offer of God’s grace as nothing to be condemned.  Our attitude about our neighbor will disclose acceptance or refusal of grace and divine love.  On the last day Jesus will say: “Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.”  (CCC 678).

To believe otherwise when it comes to grace and God’s blessings we must go back to the original catechesis of our faith;  According to a saying of the Fathers, Sacred Scripture is written principally in the Church’s heart rather than in documents and records, for the Church carries in her Tradition the living memorial of God’s Word, and it is the Holy Spirit who gives her the spiritual interpretation of the Scripture (according to the spiritual meaning which the Spirit grants to the Church).  (CCC 113).  

Be attentive to the analogy of faith.  By “analogy of faith” we mean the coherence of the truths of faith among themselves and within the whole plan of Revelation.   (CCC 114).

Ralph B. Hathaway