Faith as participation in God’s life

St. Thomas Aquinas says that faith brings us closer to knowing God. When we have a share in God’s life, we begin to see and evaluate everything as if it were God’seas – omnia quasi octilo Dei intnemur (In Boeth. de Trinitate, q. 3, a. 1).
Participation in God’s life through faith causes us to become a new person; we begin to understand reality anew, see both God and the early truth surrounding us. Through faith, we begin to see the effect of the first in the early reality Causes – God. We notice his Presence and influence both in ourselves and in the world, nature, or history. We find out that he is the author, the creator of all that we perceive only humanly, with a worldly view; it is not whole reality, but vision purely external, a vision of mere secondary causes that God uses.

Faith is a virtue that allows contact with God and is the basis of the supernatural of life. Because it is at the foundation of all supernatural activities, it happens to everything through it. The difficulties of spiritual life are always connected with weak faith. They decide on the action of the magical life, strengths and weaknesses of our faith. Faith is an essential virtue because it allows us to participate in God’s life. Faith is a participation in God’s thinking; it is as if the supernatural reason, embedded in natural forces, enables us to think of God as ourselves and everything we encounter. Therefore, to believe means to reconcile one’s thinking with God and to identify with oneself him.

The difference between natural knowledge and knowledge through faith is not a difference of degree, but essence. Faith brings union with God’s mind and inner participation in a light in which God knows himself. In this sense, it leads to contemplation and introduces the future knowledge of God in eternity. Before we enter into God’s life through faith, the life of Jesus Christ, God in it is through us that our life begins. The goal of our faith is to think Jesus Christ, allow Him who lives in us through our dedication to bringing us he used, he felt in us, he lived in us. Thanks to faith, the current way of seeing, thinking, feeling, experiencing. Faith reshapes our mentality, leads us to build God continually.

In the first place, focusing your whole life on God’s goal interprets the entire world in the light that comes from God. Then they are all ours
judgments, evaluations, desires, and expectations illuminated by the light of faith. And so on, it realizes a communion of faith that reaches its fullness only in love. The created world that surrounds us is a kind of voice that speaks to us. If we have weak faith, then this voice causes distraction, distracting us from God and concentrates on himself. As confidence grows, the opposite process occurs. Then to us, the outside world begins to talk about God, focusing us on him, drawing us to him; it becomes a sign of his Presence, it helps to contact him; in short, it becomes for us a place where we meet God. Faith allows us to transcend deceptive appearances, notice the primary causes after the secondary causes. It allows us to see that what is happening around us is not happening by human force. Faith allows discovering God’s footprints in creation. It allows us to see in the phenomena and
events an expression of God’s will, to see in events a sign that it is passing through God.
Recognize a loving Presence.
Every moment of our lives is imbued with a Presence that loves and distributes. To live in faith means perceiving this Presence, which loves us and still us presents. Thanks to the dedication, Christ gradually becomes a light that illuminates the whole human life, illuminates the world. He becomes a living, active Presence in life
their disciples. Every moment of life brings us his Presence. It’s time
Presence written in capital letters – the Presence of Christ in our lives,
the personal Presence of God, who appears as the one who expects something from us. God seems to us through His will. But what is his intention? Always what is best for us, for God is love. Every moment of your life is a moment when you meet this loving Presence. Someone said that time is a sacrament, the encounter of man with God. In this sense, every moment is a hryvnia from the gospel because it is the Presence that calls for something. God connects with every moment
of grace, whether it is an easy or difficult moment. St. Paul says we live in God, we move, and we are (cf. Acts 17:28). So from him, we receive the gift of existence and the advantage of breath, food, friendship, and the gift of every moment of life. Statement of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus that everything is grace (“tout est gráce,” cf. Le Carnet Jaune [Yellow Notebook], p. 36) means everything in your life is associated with some form of grace. God comes to you in the form of a gift, in the form of grace, in the form of challenge – in this sense, everything is grace. God wants that everything may become, for you, the capital “of good. He also tries to extract sound from evil. Evil
cannot be grace, but God can also benefit from God in His omnipotence and infinite mercy. The consequences of evil can bear fruit In the form of large opportunities for conversion. So “everything is grace,” and everything is hryvnia because the Lord tells you constantly and everywhere gives you a chance. You must believe in that volatile and the manifesting Presence in various ways. This moment, every moment, brings love, as Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński said. Grace is a manifestation of love, and so every moment is connected with God’s grace. Even when you sin greatly, Christ is with you and loves you. If you remembered that, if you did, he believed that you were constantly immersed in the merciful love of a God who never made you do not leave; you certainly would not fall. Everything that meets you is connected with the love of God, who loves you and desires your good. He is present in your life no matter what you do. Time is your sacrament meeting God and his mercy, his love for you, and his desire to give you everything that could be used for good so that all your guilt becomes “happy guilt.” (felix culpa). If you looked at every time you experienced like this, you would be born in spontaneous prayer to you. It would be a constant prayer because the Lord is with you, he still loves you. Every moment of your life is imbued with this love, A presence that constantly surrounds you.
God’s footprints in the world Faith allows us to see traces of God’s work everywhere, to understand that He is present.