Day 18
No image needed today. The image that we should imagine is nothing, but even when we try to imagine nothing, we think of something. We don’t really get it because we can only use something to help us to imagine nothing. Our perspective is wrong. Why? The simple answer is that we are creatures, we are finite. So, whose perspective should we have, or should I say, try to have? God’s perspective because before all that was created came to be, God existed, He has always existed. God has never not existed.
So what credit can we take in doing anything? God made everything around us. We are NOTHING compared with Him. We are weakness and sinfulness, should we want to brag about that??? So if we are made and everything we have comes from God, we should always, always humble ourselves before Him. Humility should be how we approach God, since without Him we can’t even read, write, talk, walk, eat, sleep, breath, exist. We have to remember that our first posture toward God is one of Thanksgiving! Being thankful is part of being humble.
St. Louis De Montfort really lays out today a big reason why we go to Mary. This is very, very important. “In going to Jesus through Mary, we are really paying honor to our Lord, for we are showing that, because of our sins, we are unworthy to approach his infinite holiness directly on our own” (Preparation for Total Consecration, 63). Who am I to think that I can go straight to God, we go through Mary so that we remember that we are nothing and that we totally need God. We approach Mary since she is perfect and a creature like ourselves in everything except sin. She is our intermediator, or another way of saying it: she is our go between. All she desires is for us her children to be forever with her in Heaven.
Think about this way, God is giving me the words to write in this blog so that we can learn to humble ourselves. If I take credit for this, I am a liar, since it is He who gives me the words (as long as they are giving Him praise and glory and according to His will). I can’t take praise for this; I am only the instrument in His hands. Yes, I do need to respond to what He is asking me to, but still I am only responding to His grace, thus I am doing what He called me to do. So we all need humility.