IT may give us
the sensation that we are chasing rainbows,
boiling the ocean, tilting at windmills, going in
circles, but
actually figuring out what God’s will for us is at any
given moment is
the most objective reality that we should try our best to
capture. In
a sense, nothing can be more important than that.
And that is
simply because God’s will is the source of
everything in the universe. The whole of creation in all
its
existence, unity, truth, goodness and beauty starts from
God’s will
and is maintained by it. The entire range and scope of
reality—be it
material or spiritual, natural or supernatural, temporal
or eternal—is
“contained” there, not only theoretically but also in
vivo.
We have to
realize more deeply that it is in God’s will
that everything is made to exist and is kept in existence
according to
his providence. Since we have been made with the capacity
to know and
to will, we have to live our life knowing and willing
together with
God’s knowledge and will, full of wisdom, love and mercy.
This, of
course, is not easy. God‘s will is shrouded in
the deepest of mysteries. But this does not mean that it
cannot be
known by us. Neither does it mean that God does not make
himself known
to us in the easiest manner possible.
He may be the
farthest from us, because he is the most
supernatural of all things supernatural. But he is also
the closest to
us, because he is at the very core of our being, he being
the giver of
our existence who cannot withdraw from us, lest we revert
to nothing.
He can even
appear to us directly, as what many saints had
experienced. He gives us his grace. We are left with his
doctrine. The
sacraments are there. And practically everything, if seen
with great
faith, points us to him. The trees, the mountains and
skies, the sun
and moon can speak to us of God.
Yes, it is both
difficult and easy, impossible and
feasible. It would really depend on us as to how we
approach this
matter. Are we, first of all, aware that we need to know,
love and
follow God’s will? Are we willing to exert the
corresponding effort?
To be able to
know God’s will for us at every moment, we
need to be recollected, always putting ourselves in God’s
presence,
trying to discern through our daily duties and the things
that we see
around what God is asking of us or telling us. We have to
strive to be
real contemplatives in the middle of the world, able to
see God in
everything.
continually of God’s presence and will. But we should
also undertake a
continuing plan of prayer, sacrifices, study of the
doctrine of our
faith, development of virtues, recourse to the
sacraments. All these
help in making us attentive and docile to God’s will.
These days,
there is a great need for us to know and do
God’s will, otherwise, we would be building our own tower
of Babel.
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