For any believer who feels this way,
this brief reflection might help…
“Any experience of being left alone,
disregarded, forgotten – if it does not isolate the soul and make it retreat
inwardly – invites a recognition. Our unimportance to others can combine with a
fruitful realization. The more we disappear from the attention of others the
more we are watched by God in a different manner.”
Our fallen nature tends to make us
dissatisfied with God and what He gives us; always seeking something “other
than God” when he has already given us himself. Emmanuel means "God is with
us", so we are never truly alone. Theologically, we can say that God is so “with
us” that he holds our being continually in existence. If God were to stop thinking about us or to stop loving us,
we would lapse into nothingness, but how can one internalize that kind of
closeness? Perhaps a mirror can help.
When you stand in front of a mirror, what
do you see? You see your image & likeness. If you leave the mirror even for
an instant, what happens to your image & likeness? It ceases to exist! You
“being” in front of the mirror continually holds your image & likeness in
existence. So God is right there, continually holding us and constantly sustaining
us as we journey through the holidays or anytime.
“And behold, I am with you always”
(Matthew 28:20).
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| Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. |
"If God were to stop thinking about us or to stop loving us, we would lapse into nothingness," Sounds good to me.
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