MORE THAN WE KNOW

Thursday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time

Rom 8:31-39

God is infinite. Therefore, all His attributes are infinite too. His goodness, His holiness, His power, His love, etc are all infinite. When He loves, He loves infinitely too. He loves us infinitely.

We are finite. No matter what we do, we cannot contain God in our finite being. He is always more and greater than we can contain. Despite all our efforts, we cannot fully comprehend His love for us. God loves us more than we know.

“Nothing can separate us from the love of God,” says St. Paul today. Even sin cannot hinder God from reconciling us with Him. In the Easter proclamation, we sing: “O happy fault! O necessary sin of Adam that gained for us so great a Redeemer!”

The Triune God, by His most gracious design and will, made it so that we are intimately related to Him. While maintaining the unity of the Three Persons in One God, the Father is “God-for-us”, the Son is “God-with-us”, and the Holy Spirit is “God-in-us”. The Father is Abba, the Son is Emmanuel, and the Spirit is Ruah Yahweh (“Breath of God”). God has united Himself with us in a bond that is most intimate and strong. His love for us stands as the sole motive behind His being for us, being with us, and being in us.

Who then should we fear? What then are we frightened of? “If God is for us,” St. Paul questions us, “who can be against us?” Indeed, we are more than conquerors because of Him who has loved us.

Let us not be losers. Let us be winners in our day-to-day battles in life. We already won even before the fight begins, for God loves us more than we know.