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God Loves Us But Do We Love Him?

Have you ever thought about how much God loves us? It’s incredible once you think about. This past Sunday, the priest used Eucharistic Prayer IV. Eucharistic Prayer IV, in my opinion, is one of the most beautiful prayers of the liturgy. Throughout the prayer, Holy Mother Church address God the Father in which she recalls the history of salvation. Towards the beginning of the prayer, the priest prays:

“And when through disobedience [man] had lost your friendship,
you did not abandon him to the domain of death…Time and again you offered them covenants and through the prophets taught them to look forward to salvation.”

After hearing this, I could not help but think: “Wow! God really wants us to be with him in heaven!” God made Adam and Eve in which they had no sin. Imagine that! A life without pain or suffering and in order to retain that blissful life, all you had to do was not eat from that specific tree. Obviously, Adam and Eve ate of the tree, however, thus condemning themselves, and us, to death. God in his infinite mercy, however, did not, as the prayer says, leave us in that domain of death; rather, he constantly worked with us so as to obtain that blissful life that man once had. He sent the prophets to the Israelites; He cared for and protected his people in the desert; He constantly made promises that there will be a Savior; He fulfilled those promises by handing over his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to whom the domain of death has no power over, so as to lead man into communion with God.

With all this, I could not help but just think about how many times we, the human race, have failed him. Throughout the Old Testament, God sent prophets, and what did the people do? They heard, responded, and eventually, fell away from that promise proclaimed by the prophets. Yet, God continued to make covenant after covenant!

This then led me to conclude with another thought: we see how much God loves us, but how much do we show God that we love him? Time and again God expressed his love for us, but how often do we give our time to God? I once heard a priest say, “God is not worth my time…He’s worth my life.” Therefore, I invite everyone who reads this to surrender to God. Listen to him in prayer and respond to that prayer with total faith.

Thomas Piro

Thomas Piro

3rd Theology
Thomas Piro attends Saint Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, NY.
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