Verse of the Day: Return to the Lord, families of the peoples, return to Eternal glory and strength (Psalm 96. 7).
This is what I think is a bit of what is included in a complete experience of what the Psalmist asks when he says, “Impose [i. e. , give] strength to the Lord. “
- First.
- Through divine grace.
- We turn to God and see that He is strong.
- We pay attention to your strength.
- That is why we admit the greatness of your strength and take due account of its value.
We know your strength is wonderful. However, what makes this admiration a kind of “homage” – praise is that we are especially pleased that the greatness of the force is yours and not ours.
We feel deeply in tune with the fact that it is infinitely strong and we are not. We like the fact that it is. We do not envy God by his strength, we are not hungry for his power. We are full of joy because all the strength is yours.
Everything in us is happy to go out and contemplate this power, as if we had come to the celebration of the victory of a runner in the background who had defeated us in the race, and realize that it is our greatest joy to admire his strength, rather than feel defeat.
Do we find the deepest sense of life when our hearts voluntarily admire The Power of God, rather than turn to glory?Or even think? In our own forces. We discover something irresistible: it is deeply satisfying not to be God and to abandon every thought or desire to be God.
As we contemplate God’s power, a perception arises in us that God created the universe for this: so that we may have the extremely rewarding experience of not being God, but of admiring God’s divinity, the strength of God. In this, a satisfaction full of Peace is established upon us that the admiration of infinity is the ultimate end of all things.
We tremble at the slightest temptation to claim that all power comes from ourselves. God weakened us to protect us from this: “However, we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the excellence of power may come from God and not from us. ? (2 Corinthians 4. 7).
O what love, may God protect us from replacing the eternal heights of admiration of his strength with the vain attempt to boast of ours!
Original: February 8th? Joy of not being God, © 2017 Faithful Ministérium. All rights reserved. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br: Camila Rebeca Almeida Critic: Vinicius Musselman Narration: Elalio Garofalo Neto.
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