OUR life should
mirror the life of God himself, since we
are supposed to be his image and likeness. That’s how we
have been
created. We are meant to live our life with God. We can
even say that
God treats us the way he treats himself. For this purpose
he gave us
the power to know him and to love him by giving us
intelligence and
will, and most of all, his grace that is completely
gratuitous.
It is this
grace that enables us to be like God and to
live our life with him. Our intelligence and will, on
their own, would
not enable us to be like God, but they are necessary for
us to
correspond to God’s grace. They have what is called the
‘obediential
potency’ that enables us to receive grace and to have the
potency to
elevate us to the supernatural life of God.
And even if we
messed up the original plan of God for us,
he recovered us with his work of redemption. Our life
should also
therefore mirror not only the creative life of God, which
is already
overwhelming, but also the redemptive work of his, which
is even more
overwhelming.
But let’s not
be afraid, since God himself will take care
of everything. Ours is simply to go along with him by
corresponding to
his love as best we could. This business of mirroring of
God’s life in
ours should be a result not of our desire only, which is
quite
subjective and cannot go the distance. It should be the
result of our
sense of gratitude for the immense and tremendous love
God has for us.
As the way of true love goes, love is repaid with love.
God has loved
us first, and so we love him in return.
This mirroring
of God’s life in us should somehow be lived
out everyday. In this, we have to try to be very specific
and
concrete, avoiding a generic approach. In a manner of
speaking, let us
move from a grainy kind of outlook in life to one that is
high
definition.
And so, each
time we wake up in the morning, for example,
let’s direct ourselves first of all to God to thank him
for the new
day and the new opportunity we have to spend our day with
him and to
live our life with him. And then let’s see how we can
make the day
beautiful, productive, meaningful.
That is why as
soon as we recover our senses after waking
up, let us try to figure out how we can mirror God’s life
in our day.
For sure, there are many and endless possibilities. If we
are truly
moved by God’s love us, we will never run out of ideas,
initiatives,
plans and strategies to mirror God’s life and love in our
daily life.
If we are truly
moved by God’s love for us, we would
always be inventive and creative, and we would do all
this without
counting the cost, in total generosity. Everything will
be done in
gratis, although we know that God cannot be outdone in
generosity. In
other words, we mirror God’s overwhelming and gratuitous
love for us
in our love for him in return. We would be drawn into the
dynamics of
God’s love.
All throughout
the day, we should have an abiding
awareness that everything we do, from our thoughts and
desires to our
words and actions, is motivated and inspired by the love
of God. We
should end the day aware that we have spent it in love
for God which
will always have the accompanying complement of love for
the others,
including those who do not love us.
Let’s remember
that God’s love has a universal coverage.
He is very willing to give mercy to those who offend him.
This is how
we can make a beautiful and meaningful day everyday.
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