To Feel and Live Like Jesus

To be a Christian is to feel as Jesus felt and to live as He lived. it is relatively easy to know what were the preferences of Jesus, His lifestyle and spirituality, the main purpose of His life.

But there is another thing, as difficult to discover as it is to live, and it is this: how to capture the inner harmony of the Lord? We need to get to the roots, because the essential is always beneath the surface.

How do we do this? The “soul” of Jesus appears and is made transparent in His words and deeds. We have to begin by leaning on the whole Word with a contemplative attitude in order to be rooted in the Lord.

Again, how do we do this? You should place yourself in an attitude of faith, asking for the assistance of the Holy Spirit and letting yourself be carried away by its inspiration.

Then, with all of your faculties recollected, in faith and peace, let yourself be taken, with a contemplative gaze and infinite reverence, into the intimacy of Jesus, and “remain” there, letting yourself be surprised and sensing everything that is happening there in the depths. And, once submerged in that environment, quiet and motionless, let yourself be impregnated by those various existential and living harmonies, sharing in the profound experience of Jesus in this way.

This is the knowledge “beyond knowledge” (Eph 3:18)

Extracted from the book “Sensing your Hidden Presence” by Fr. Ignacio Larrañaga