Keep the music playing

I AM referring to our relationship with God. We always

have to find ways of how to keep that relationship strong, vibrant and

abiding, one that would truly bring us in such an intimate contact

with God, our Father and Creator, that we would vividly know his will

at every moment and would love to do that will of his.

             Let’s remember that when God created man, he entered into

a personal relationship with him precisely because man was created by

God to be his image and likeness, to be a person with whom he can

share his very life and nature.

  

            As we often hear, we, among God’s creatures, are not just

something. We are a someone, a person, with intelligence and will. It

is with us, together with the angels, that God establishes a personal

relationship. We have to learn how to do our part in corresponding to

that God-initiated relationship.

   

            That is why in the narration of the creation of the

universe, God simply said “Let there be this and that…” and those

things simply appeared and started to exist. But in the creation of

man, he just did not say, “Let there be man.” He took some clay, gave

it some form and breathed into it and it became a living being. And

then God started to talk to the man.

  

            That God-initiated dialogue between him and man should, as

much as possible, not be broken. It should be kept going for the whole

duration of the life of man who is meant to live not only in time but

also in eternity, precisely because man is like God, meant to share in

God’s life and nature.

  

            The fullness of our humanity, the completion and

perfection of our creation is when we truly become like God, fully

sharing in his life and nature, something that can only happen at the

end of time. In the meantime, we are still being created. We are still

under construction.

  

            We can say that in our case among God’s creatures, we are

the only ones together with the angels who are meant to be co-creators

with God of our own selves. And since the original creation of man was

messed up by our sins, and we now need to be redeemed by God who did

so in Christ, then we have to understand that we too are also

co-redeemers of our own selves with Christ.

  

            This role of being co-redeemers of our own selves would

make it more imperative that we keep the music playing always with

God, with Christ and with the many instrumentalities that God has

provided us so that we can always be with and in him.

              We have to realize that without God, without Christ, the

only possibility we have is to stray, to deviate from the proper path.

In other words, the only possibility is for us to sin. This happened

in the case of our first parents who, in spite of the ideal condition

in which they were created, preferred to listen to the devil than to

stay tuned with God.

  

            In our case, we are already quite handicapped even from

our own conception and therefore more prone to prefer to listen to the

devil more than to God. We cannot exaggerate the great need we have to

really find ways of how we can keep listening to God so we do not get

distracted and carried away from God.

  

            That is why we cannot overemphasize the need for us to

really pray all the time, knowing how to convert every situation in

our life, every activity, concern, project, etc. we have in life as an

occasion to relate ourselves to God.

  

            Let’s humble ourselves to realize that we need all this,

since it is pride that would lead us to think that we would just be ok

by being on our own, distancing ourselves from God.