Assuming God’s very life in our life

By Fr. Roy Cimagala

WE really have to learn to assume in a stable way God’s very own life and nature in our own life. For this, we should first be firm in our belief that our life is actually the life of God who offers it to us freely since he has made us, of all his creatures, his very image and likeness.

We need to be clear about this fundamental truth about ourselves and about everything else in the whole universe. God, being the Creator of everything, shares what he has in varying degrees and ways with all his creatures. He is in everyone and in everything. He is the source and the maintainer of everyone’s and everything’s existence. Nothing can exist without him.

In our case, he is with us to the highest degree of connaturality because, with our intelligence and will, plus the grace that God gratuitously offers us, we are made to enter into his very life and nature.

We should acknowledge this basic truth that our life is actually God’s life first of all and always, and everything in our life should be in accordance to how God is. That’s why we are given the capacity to know and love him.

This fundamental truth about ourselves should be made known universally, and everyone should be prodded to learn how to conform their lives with the very life of God by following and doing God’s will and ways which have been shown and shared with us ultimately through Christ in the Spirit.

We need to do our part in corresponding to this fundamental truth by learning how to develop our spiritual life, which is none other than developing an intimate relationship with God in all the events and circumstances of our life.

Let’s remember that God is everything to us. Without him or ignoring him can only unavoidably lead us to evil, since God is the only source of everything that is good, true and beautiful. We should never think that we can just be on our own. Of course, we have to be taught and trained first how we can discern the constant presence and interventions of God in our life.

In any situation and in whatever we do, we should be aware that God is showing us how to go about it, how to react and behave, etc. We should never think that there are times when God is not around or is not involved in anything in our life.

Thus, we should learn how to always live in God’s presence, actively corresponding to his will and ways. God is the pattern of life. He is the shaper and director of our life. He is the purpose and the power to enable us to be his image and likeness.

It should not be something out of order for us to learn how to be prayerful, how to be contemplative, especially as we engage in our earthly affairs, since we need to be with him and follow his will in all these affairs.

We should therefore be asking ourselves always what God wants us to do, how we have to be in any situation and condition of our life. To be sure, this will give us the proper condition of life where we would always feel confident, happy and at peace no matter how things go in our life.

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