Lux Mundi: The Greatness of God's love

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

The Greatness of God's love

Have you ever had someone special, like a mother, father, or grandparent? Have you ever loved them so much that you spent hours planning and preparing some sort of event for them, like a party, a date, or a day out on the town? I have, and on those occasions I want EVERYTHING, every little detail, to be perfect. I also die of embarrassment when something does go wrong or not as I planned, and something normally does because I am imperfect. Now if you’re reading this blog chances are you believe in Jesus Christ, just like me. If you do, then you know God; the almighty, all-powerful, all-knowing creator; became man and died. God loves you so much he was nailed to a cross, and while this one example is the greatest example of them all, we can see God’s love acting today and every day.

While the cross is an amazing example of God’s love, I’d like to show you another that is too often over looked by, well, everyone. It is God’s own will that keeps reality in existence. If God decided that he wanted to start completely over he could just will us all into oblivion, but God is all good and all love so we trust that that will never happen. We humans are a bright bunch, but we don’t know everything about the universe. We can only imagine all the things God has created out there, but God knows where every speck of dust in the universe is at all times, ISN’T THAT INCREADABLE! Stars shine, planets move, and black holes do their thing all because God simply wills it. God has a plan for everything from Galaxies to stars and planets. But that isn’t all; there are things so small we can’t perceive them!!! All the people, plants, and animals on earth, only exist because God loves us and wills our continued existence. But on an even smaller level, every cell in your body does its job, why, because God made them to and commands them. He also has a plan for and controls where every atom in the entirety of existence is, was and will be. God even wills Quarks and other sub-atomic particles into existence, and not only does he will them to exist but with no more effort than a thought he commends them to do as he wills. He controls all these things more seamlessly then the most skilled puppeteer so EVERYTHING falls exactly where and when it is supposed to, exactly the way it is supposed to.

I can't fathom the love he must have....to have fashioned into being everything that exists on the grand scale but not letting a single atom, electron, or even a quark come out of place all simply for love of what He has made. My only challenge this week is to think about that, take ten minutes and just think about how much God loves YOU. Remember God loves each of us individually, he doesn’t just love “the world” or “mankind” he loves YOU in individually. While He loves the world and He loves man kind YOU HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN GOD’S HEART!

--- Joseph Child of Jesus

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First of all we are all young people and proudly Catholic. We are a group of close friends in college and we are lively and practicing young men and women who have devoted our lives to the service of Christ and His Church in whatever way the Lord sees fit! That is partially the most exciting part of this group. We all went to high school together, and we met in our senior year. A string of circumstances brought us together to pray and discuss our faith. It was a truly incredible time! For now there are only a few of us working on this blog but we hope some others will join us as time goes on.

This Blog was my idea. I have been looking for a way to get involved in spreading the Gospel in a real and effective way for two years. I cannot stand being on the side lines. One day some inspiration came to me: A blog by Catholic youth for everyone. Since I can remember there has been a lack of an intense youthful presence in the Church. That is most certainly changing, and I want to be part of it! In my many experiences with catholic blogs, I have had to go to several places to read all the information and discussion I wanted, so my thought was to create a one stop blog, simple and easy, which has several “voices” with one directed sound. I don’t know if that makes sense. I want to have one direction with several different authors and perspectives but all young. I also don’t want the writing to be overly elevated nor obsessively analytical, which can sometimes scare people away. But we also can’t dumb down the faith; to do that would be an insult to the one true faith. That, for the most part was the idea! There are things similar, but none like what I was really hoping to do. One night I was blessed with this inspiration. But I have been frightened to take it on, that is one of my faults, misguided fear. The idea wouldn’t go away and I figured I needed to try but I couldn’t do it alone. There was only one group of people who could help me do this and so I enlisted the help of my friends; and here we are.

A little bit on our beliefs: We are most definitely and unapologetically Catholic. So, although this may be a cliche, if you need more information, google the phrase Nicene-Constantinople Creed. That should sufficiently point out our doctrinal backgrounds. One thing we do wish to express explicitly is our total reliance on the authentic authority of God, both in Heaven and on Earth. We commonly encounter that which is on Earth, although it is eternally united to that of the Lord! What we are saying is we submit ourselves to the judgment and guidance of the Holy Father and the Magisterium. That is of the utmost importance. Many Catholics today neglect authentic Revelation (i.e. Tradition) and authentic authority! But that is for another time!

We love Christ and His Church. We are not perfect, in fact we are sinners, and I particularly am quite the sinner! However we are striving for holiness and to live a saintly life so that we might in the next life be rewarded with entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

We hope you find your way to an informed faith through this blog. We don’t expect to reach millions but maybe a few will find us and be inspired, maybe someone will find us and through the grace of God find his way to authentic Catholicism. If but one finds this to have made a positive impact in his life, it shall all be worth it! But we will be careful; we don’t wish to have a negative effect on anyone!!!