making Himself known or making it up ourselves? - 1st week monday 2015

Today we continue reflecting on our first reading.  Today we begin reading from the letter to the Hebrews.  Our faith is a revelation.  God spoke to us, first through the prophets then in these final days through the Son.  God spoke to us about himself, God revealed who he is to us.  We do not go out and create our own image of God or preach our own idea of God.  God reveals who he is.  In the same way we do not do things just because we feel and think that it is the right thing to do.  No.  We do things because God wants us to do it, he made it known that this is what he wants from us, he made it known that this is what he wants us to do.  Our faith is revelation and it is not something we concoct in our minds or something we imagine or something we suppose.  Rather it is what we listen to when scriptures is read to us.  It is something we listen to when scriptures is preached and taught to us by the church.

Nowadays in an effort to help people think for themselves we sometimes fail to teach.  But we must understand there are truths that need to be taught.  In an effort to help people chart their own destiny we sometimes fail to give direction.  But we must understand that there are certain roads in life where people need to be directed and properly led.  This is the mechanics of our faith.  It is not up to us, it is never up to us, for it is God revealing himself, it is God who makes himself and his will known to all.