Embracing the Infinite Mystery of God

One thing is the word God, and another thing is God himself. One thing is the word love, and another thing is love. God is not a theory or theology. He is a concrete person, and a person is known through a personal relationship. This personal relationship confers that knowledge (gained through experience) “that surpasses all understanding”. If we do not dive headfirst into the sea of God, we will never know who God is.

No one has the right to talk about God if they do not talk with God. Otherwise, we would be transformed into hollow gongs or simply playing empty word games. This helps explain why there is often a lot of productivity and brilliant statistical data in the Church, but it is also obvious to the eye that such productivity is not proportional to true fruitfulness. Productivity depends upon human efforts and is an activity which is measurable and can be reduced to numbers and statistics. Fruitfulness, on the other hand, depends upon God himself: He is the sole author of grace, grace which is spread through humble servants and true friends of the Lord.

Extracted from the book “Journey Towards God” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga