As we get busy with secular items, do not forget that Christ is number One!

As we get busy with secular items, do not forget that Christ is number One!

Of course we can look at life’s needs and wonder where the time has gone, sometimes forgetting that Christ does the same thing with us pondering the intention of our thoughts of him.  Does putting this question to the Lord appear to be too dramatic towards Christ?  Do not forget he also is 100% human as well as 100 % divine.  Jesus understood the thoughts of his critics, not by way of divine intuition but by a simple knowledge of how the human mind often reveals itself by its attitude of selfish opinions.

Placing a one-sided reality of Christ without the other nature that makes him who he is gets into a heretical atmosphere that is not Christian or even God loving and understanding what we are talking about.  Far too many believers in the Holy Trinity have decided how to separate the two natures of Jesus and dissected him as we would mice in a biology classroom.  

The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply he is the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human.  He became truly man while remaining truly God.  Jesus Christ is true God and true man.  During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against the heresies that falsified it.  (CCC 464).

Because “human nature was assumed, not absorbed,”  in the mysterious union of the Incarnation, the Church was led over the course of centuries to confess the full reality of Christ’s human soul, with its operations of intellect and will, and of his human body  In parallel fashion, she had to to recall on each occasion that Christ’s human nature belongs, as his own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it.  Everything that Christ is and does in this nature derives from “one of the Trinity.”  The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal  mode of existence in the Trinity.  In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity.  (CCC 470).

The Son of God…worked with human hands; he thought with a human mind.  He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved.  Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except sin.  (Gaudium et spes). 

When we enter into an eternal existence we shall see Christ as he is:  The second person of the Holy Trinity and a man like us still bearing the wounds of his Crucifixion.  His divinity will be visible through our faith and his humanity that can touch; To Thoman he said, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.”  (Jn 20: 27).

We shall see him as he is, not as he was before he suffered for our sins.

Ralph B. Hathaway