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Terry Trombley's avatar

"right doctrine alone is not enough. God desires our hearts, and we will not be worthy of the Kingdom of God until we have given them to Him." Indeed, God desires our hearts absolutely. Long ago in prayerful contemplation of God it was unexpectedly posed to me that if I truly loved God in a manner as intimately, as unqualified, as completely, and as passionately as our Savior loves our Father, I would love God more passionately than even my wife, my children, or indeed anyone else to whom my heart was given here on earth. I wanted to embody this disposition with all of my heart since early childhood but it seemed like an impossible dream for the likes of me. I also realized that the consummately selfless disposition of Jesus with respect to our Father and to us was not only lacking in me but was seemingly light years distant from my expectations of what I was becoming aware were the actual requirements for my entry into Heaven. I could see that my desire for spiritual perfection and even for Heaven itself were so grounded in a selfish desire for the protection of my own welfare rather than that of our God and were, in fact, all about me instead of being concerned with my pleasing and embracing the Person, the needs, and desires of God alone for His sake alone. I subsequently perceived an irrepressible need to promise God that I would approach Him only in a manner both destitute and silent that awaits only knowledge of His presence with me and of His desires rather than tendering mine to Him until He would establish in me the union with Him that I could now see was necessary not only for my Salvation but for entry into what I could now see, even from afar, was my destined and totally unique Sainthood. Little did I realize that the state of destitution required of me was to become one that was to be far more spiritual than physical and involved placing even my most certain expectations, beliefs and convictions at risk in surrendering all of them to God for His sanctification. I was very soon to discover why we call our God "unfathomable" and that for all of my life I had been mistaken in what was actually my pursuit of the understanding of God, which is impossible and always an exercise in pride, with one of knowledge of God . It would be so even for the angels. The greatest surprises for me in all of this has been recognition of the absolute, utterly passionate need of God for our companionship here on earth as well as in eternity and also the unexpected ease with which we can recognize God immediately and incessantly all around us and within us when we allow Him this most simple but absolute latitude of our destitute vulnerability to him in everything, especially in what we identify as spiritual matters. For those who really want to know the secret of loving immersion in the mutual and utterly passionate embrace of God within us and within our Church which will always result in genuine knowledge of Him and His desires, I have found that this is it. Our undertaking of this simple and wholly expectant surrender of everything to our God, which even the most accomplished of our Saviors' Apostles managed to embody, is the way into His heart and His into ours.

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Aamikee's avatar

🙏🏻 thanks

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