Children of God

When a man opens his inner spaces up to God, in faith and in prayer; when he feels his lonely, inner spaces filled and inundated by the Divine Presence; when he perceives that his extreme misery and poverty are counteracted by the power and wealth of God; when a man experiences vividly that this Lord, which fills him and gives him stability, besides being all-powerful, is all loving; that God is “his” God, the Lord is “his” Father; and that his Father loves him, and that He surrounds him, and penetrates him, and keeps him company; and that He is his strength and his security, his certainty and his freedom; then tell me: what can make him be afraid? If the Lord is my strength and my salvation, whom shall, I fear? If the Lord is the defense of my life, before whom shall I tremble? (v.1). Fear has disappeared because God has filled the loneliness.

God does not have a tent or a cabin. He himself is the cabin of refuge. The problem is whether I will take refuge in Him, entrust myself to Him and abandon myself into His hands. This is what is about: I will take shelter; I will cover myself, as with a coat, with His Divine Presence. Once more, and always this glorious freedom presupposes a real live experience of God.

Extracted from the book “Psalms for Life” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga