Innate in every human being is the need to be understood.
We explain, we elaborate, because we know that being understood means being accepted and loved.
Yet words fail us at times. Words fail to convey what is in our hearts. Our vocabularies are limited. Our understanding at times carries too much cultural and emotional baggage. Words can get twisted, misinterpreted and often prove inadequate.
God understands us fully but do we understand Him? Our problem with God lies not in His failing to understand, accept and love us but our inability to understand, accept and love Him.
Knowing that, God speaks beyond vowels and consonants. God speaks through actions.
Actions speak louder and clearer. Actions carry meaning. Actions are words put in visual form.
Over 2000 years ago, in a certain culture, at a certain point in history, God came in the Person of Christ. He lived among us, suffered and died the most unjust death and then rose again on the third day and one day He is coming back to judge the living and the dead.
His message is simple – “I love you. Love me back. You are made in My image, created for Me, to be loved by Me and to love Me. I came for You, died and rose for You. And I will come back for you.”
The Holy Communion is the cryptic version of the Kingdom’s call and cause. It is the everlasting reminder to us that God loves us in the past, the present and the future.
God understands us fully. The question is do we understand Him?
Saturday, October 22, 2011
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