EDante, AIT Home 11 July 2009
A Father is the one who looks after his children with great love and care. He is the one who provides for their needs and ensures that they have clothing, food, a place to live and other necessities of life. He is not only concern about those external things though. A good Father also knows the requirements of the spirit, which are faith in God and righteous living. Therefore, he busies himself with giving instructions to his children about God, His existence, the way He works, His commandments and the way to relate with God. Being a teacher of God, it is also necessary to teach what it means without God, living in darkness and selfishness and self-indulgences. The devil is real as God is real. The devil deceives and entices people to look at the world as an end of itself, not as a means, and to devote all their energies to maximizing pleasure and satisfactions with what the world provides and can offer. There are many of these, including earthy riches, honour, power, man lust, and others. But God’s ways are far different. God teaches us to be humble, detached from earthly riches, kind, patient, hardworking and simple. There are many other divine virtues making man truly a child of God, and deserving of heaven by God’s grace. Confident of the Father’s goodness, man has to live always with the Father in mind. One can never alone in this world, because God is omnipresent and is within everything. God doesn’t sleep nor does he needs time to free himself from caring man and watching him with love. Where can one hide from a God who knows every hair that drops from man’s head? His eyes are more powerful than the sun, and can penetrate the deepest recesses of the earth, and the hidden secrets in man’s soul. There is no secret for God. But man, in his foolishness and darkness, live as if God does not exist. In his arrogance, man thinks that he is the ruler of his live and therefore can do everything he wants. Indeed, with God’s gift of free will, man is permitted to do want his wants. But that free will is indeed for man to learn to love God and not to rebel against God. Because love is based on free will. To live with God always in mind is a great blessing and grace. A thought of Him is a prayer and therefore keeping the mind sensitive to God’s presence is to live the scripture passage “pray without ceasing”. Prayer is to keep in touch with God. It is to talk with him as a child speaks to his father. It is sweet conversations without words but with love. Prayer is the strength of the humble and poor. It is the sweet manna that feeds the hungry, and the living water that quench the thirsty. It is the relaxation of those who are burden with life, due to man’s wickedness and lack of charity. Prayer is to be absorbed by God and to feel his presence with peace and love. It is an exchange of sigh of love between spirits, between Father and son, or Mother and daughter. Prayer is the vessel in which the Father pour down His fatherly spiritual graces to His children. Jesus once said about the Father: “a King, yet so motherly, a Judge, yet so tender and loving, the Alpha and the Omega, yet so meek.” |
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