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"He is the source of all things and all things exist within Him. This is truly incomprehensible to the human mind. It is a mystery beyond our limits to understand."

Not even the Angels or our greatest Saints has the capability to ever understand our God. It is rightly asserted that these mysteries are incomprehensible to the human mind and are beyond our limits to understand. This is however not true at all of the human heart as the lives and writings of our Catholic mystics clearly demonstrate. No created being has, or ever will have, the capability to understand in the least the nature, actions, or dispositions of our Triune God. When we become established and sustained in the intended communion of intimacy with Him, which by its nature is one of utter vulnerability, our knowledge of Him becomes literally limitless residing instead within our hearts and is light years more precise and compelling than our pitiful capabilities of understanding God could ever be. In essence we frequently err in seeking to bring earth to Heaven which cannot be rather than Heaven to earth. It is a sad fact that most of us seek to understand God which is frankly impossible rather than simply allowing establishment of our communion with Him which imparts true knowledge of Him. In turn this mutual union with God reveals the true means of our unique Sainthood and participation in our life with God in Heaven to us.

"The Christian who dies in a state of grace will go to heaven and actually be like God! "

There is so much "meat" in this one sentence. It would be more appropriate here, I think, to say that as we undertake the true means of our becoming sustained in the state of grace, which is the personal embrace of the unfathomable graciousness of our God, we begin to embody Him as He takes up residence within us, creating between Us an indestructible and indescribably beautiful and mutual union. For this union to occur, we must first become a vessel that is truly empty, devoid of our junk and our self concern, including and especially spiritual self concern. We are then ready to receive and welcome Him. Few of us understand that the state of emptiness here must be one that is truly consummate. This would be one of unqualified vulnerability where even, and especially those convictions we believe are our most solid and certain are at unimpeded risk to God. When we become "like" God it is not because we become omnipotent but because we embody Him and have therefore become participants in the Sonship of our Savior with respect to our Father. This union cannot occur without imparting immense effect upon an individual who has chosen to become so utterly "near" to God in becoming a party to it. Such a communion with God, which will ultimately result in the embrace of a disposition where the Person, needs, and desires of God alone, for His sake alone, will become its only object. Placing God at the center of one's life or the pitiful disposition of allowing Him to be first in our lives are actually protestant inspired concepts that are wholly insufficient in the task of imparting our unique Sainthood to us.

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