THE SUREST WAY TO SEE GOD.

SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER. YEAR B.
May 24, 2009.
(First reading: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26) (Psalm 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20)
(Second reading: 1 John 4:11-16) (Gospel: John 17:11-19)


THE SUREST WAY
TO SEE GOD.

In order to see God a person just needs to see his fellow human beings.

However, he who inflicts harm upon his fellow human beings would refuse to see them because the harm itself is an indictment against the offender.

How do the offenders shield themselves against the indictment?
By resorting to isolationism! Isolationism covers their eyes so that they cannot see the hunger and disease, the misery and squalor, the death and destruction they inflict upon others.

The failure to see God in one's fellow human beings, leads to two responses:
1. Living without God; God is not a part of his life.

2. Replacing God with something else: Such as the god of wealth, of power, of prestige, of adulation, of selfishness, of indifference.

The way to see God.
This is how we see God: By seeing and caring for those on whom God has set his sight and his love. "We have come to know and believe in the love of God for us" (1 John 4:16). In other words, we are able to see God by caring for those whom God cares for.

Thus, we see God not so much through our fellow human beings but rather in them.

There is no greater offense to God than that of not caring for those God cares for. There is no greater evil than that of not caring for those for whom God has given his life.

We see God by seeing those for whom God has given his life.