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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshiped.
- Evelyn Underhill
(Take care that you maintain a sense of the mystery of God. The alternative is usually some form of idolatry.)
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HEB 1:1-6; PS 97:1-2, 6-7, 9; MK 1:14-20 R. Let all his angels worship him. The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice;
let the many isles be glad.
Justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne.
The heavens proclaim his justice,
and all peoples see his glory.
Let all his angels worship him.
Because you, O LORD, are the Most High over all the earth,
exalted far above all gods.
USCCB lectionary
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Then he called them. Passing by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw some ordinary fishermen named Simon (Peter) and Andrew. With no preamble or words of greeting, Jesus said to them, "Follow me and I will make you fish for people." And they did. Immediately. No requests for a job description. No inquiries about salary and benefits. No hemming and hawing.They just went. The disciples' response seems rather impetuous, even irrational. We are apt to make life-changing decisions with a little more thought. But throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, God calls people and they go.
Grant us the courage to respond to your call, Lord Jesus. - by Jeanne Lischer
My Daily Bread
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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, by St. John of Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
The inward lover of God, who possesses God in fruitive love, and himself in adhering and active love, and his whole life in virtues according to righteousness; through these three things, and by the mysterious revelation of God, such an inward man enters into the God-seeing life. Yea, the lover who is inward and righteous, him will it please God in His freedom to choose and to lift up into a superessential contemplation, in the Divine Light and according to the Divine Way. This contemplation sets us in purity and clearness above all our understanding, for it is a singular adornment and a heavenly crown, and besides the eternal reward of all virtues and of our whole life. And to it none can attain through knowledge and subtlety, neither through any exercise whatsoever. Only he with whom it pleases God to be united in His Spirit, and whom it pleases Him to enlighten by Himself, can see God, and no one else. The mysterious Divine Nature is eternally and actively beholding and loving according to the Persons, and has everlasting fruition in a mutual embrace of the Persons in the unity of the Essence. In this embrace, in the essential Unity of God, all inward spirits are one with God in the immersion of love; and are that same one which the Essence is in Itself, according to the mode of Eternal Bliss. [71] And in this most high unity of the Divine Nature, the heavenly Father is origin and beginning of every work which is worked in heaven and on earth. And He says in the deep sunken hiddenness of the spirit: Behold, the Bride groom cometh; go ye out to meet Him.
- Third Book, Chapter 1: Showing the three ways by which one enters the God-seeing life. Paperback (kindle edition available)
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