JOHN 7:1-2,
10, 25-30: GOD SEEKING US
Friends, in
today’s Gospel Jesus proclaims during the Feast of Tabernacles that the Father
has sent him.
In his
passion to set right a disjointed universe, God broke open his own heart in
love. The Father sent not simply a representative, spokesman, or
plenipotentiary, but his own Son into the dysfunction of the world so that he
might gather that world into the bliss of the divine life.
God’s centre—the
love between the Father and the Son—is now offered as our centre; God’s heart
breaks open so as to include even the worst and most hopeless among us. In so
many spiritual traditions, the emphasis is placed on the human quest for God,
but this is reversed in Christianity.
Christians
do not believe that God is dumbly "out there," like a mountain
waiting to be climbed by various religious searchers. On the contrary, God,
like the hound of heaven in Francis Thompson’s poem, comes relentlessly
searching after us.
Because of
this questing and self-emptying divine love, we become friends of God, sharers
in the communion of the Trinity. That is the essence of Christianity;
everything else is commentary.
Reflect: How
has God come "relentlessly searching" for you during your life?
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