Why, Lord, aren’t you acting harder?

“Why are you withdrawing your hand and why are you holding your right hand in your lap?” (Ps 74, 11) Sometimes I ask myself: Why does the Lord God not proceed more magnificently, stronger, more open, why are there no more excellent signs in Heaven and on earth, why does he won’t reveal more his glory, that all men may believe in him?
But then I understood that if he did, yes, he would get ours amazement, he would gain our obedience, perhaps, and submissiveness for sure; he would gain fear and fear and indeed worship, whether sincere or apparently out of fear and calculations, but not love. Love cannot be obtained by manifestations of Power or, in any form of any kind, pressure.
If God were a lord who rules and reigns hard, he would give us, his
subjects, feel their Power and would undoubtedly be satisfied with the manifestations of ours obedience and obedience. So, it was pretty much in the Old Testament when he was beginning with us people – though not quite there either. But He comes as the Bridegroom. He longs for the love of man as his bride. Therefore, as the Groom remains hidden. He lets us know about himself; yes, he gives, enough to get to know Him, enough so that we can fall in love with Him – enough to seek Him. But never, not so much that His Size and Power will break us and destroy the hope of the subtle and the tender love of the bride instead of the submission of the slave.
“It’s not far from any of us. Because we live in it, we move, and we are.” (Acts 17: 27-28) And then he waits until we find Him with a longing heart full of love, not for Him Greatness and Power and our possible gain, but for His Beauty and Love – and He will be to us, he can find, believe, and undoubtedly be found to everyone who seeks Him with love! Today, just like then, and to those who sought Him in it with great love painful and then so joyful Morning: Mary Magdalene, the other women, and after them Peter, and John and the disciples … Jesus answered and said unto him, He that loved me shall keep my word and mine. The father will love him; we will come to him and make him his home. “” (Jn 14:23)
“You love him, even though you have not seen him. Even now you do not see him, but you believe and rejoice with unspeakable joy, full of glory, that you are achieving the goal of your faith – salvation of souls. “(1 Peter 1: 8-9) It is delicate and precise work, this everyday walk of the bride and groom, getting to know each other, tapping, until finally to love, so gentle, so tender, in the silence and intimacy of the two hearts … A peaceful journey to a soft and fragile goal.
And yet, in the end, in that tenderness and fragility, when it is born, there is more strength, then in the whole Universe! “Love is as powerful as death, and the passion of love is as hard as the underworld. It’s burning – that the flames of the fire, its flames, Yahweh’s radiance. Not even great waters will quench love, nor will the rivers wash it away. “(Cp. 8: 6-7)
It’s about love. Not about obedience, although love also obeys. But observation itself is not enough. It must be love. We have to fall in love. Really, and truly, to fall in love with the Groom, who is secretly waiting for our love. Love is the essence of God; love is the life of Heaven. Enough for earthly blessings, worship of slaves, and obedience to servants. But not for Heaven, not for deification. Only love, real love, applies there!
And when they had eaten, Jesus asked Simon Peter, saying, Simon, son of John, loves thou? me greater than these? “He replied,” Yes, Lord, you know I love you. ” (Jn 21:15) “… for no man shall be justified by works of the law.” (Ga 2, 16) “God is love; and he who remains  in love remains in God, and God remains  in him.” (1Jn 4:16) “He who loves was born of God and knows God.” (1Jn 4, 7)
Do you know, man, what love is? You know, perhaps you were in love. But if no … So, ask yourself this: Is God, is Jesus Christ, my hobby? My hobby? My hobby? Which I devote myself to with passion and joy whenever I have a moment? I have His paintings and posters on the wall, read in the library books about Him? I collect, buy, order, visit things that. Are they related to it? Because this is the beginning of love. But only the beginning. We can love Christianity more than Christ. Being more interested in the puzzles of theology than a person of the Groom. Biblical prophecies and fantastic fruits to interpret them (and this happens) rather than by their Originator. But it can be the gate, the outer courtyard of the inner temple within us, through which we can walk further, more profound, to the Sanctuary, where the Bridegroom awaits and where love turns into true and accurate love. It’s always about love. Love matters. The only one on it.
“He who does not love remains in death.” (1Jn 3:14) How does love begin? Don’t cook by timidly talking to who we are wanted to love? So let’s talk! “In those days, he went up to the mountain to pray and spent the whole night in prayer with God.” (Lk 6:12)
And then gifts, expressions of affection and interest, first and artificial attempts to make the other happy …? We can do this too, let’s give presents of attention to Christ! “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (Jn 14:15)
Love does not fall from the sky. Love must be born, grow, strengthened, and mature. Words of love, expressions of love, or at least interest and attention, gifts to whom we want to love.

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (Jn 14:15)
Love does not fall from Heaven. Love must be born, grow, become more robust, and mature. A word of love, expressions of love, or at least interest and attention, gifts to it, whom we want to love, is how love is cultivated and by which grows. This is how big little Therese understood it when discovering her “little way” to big love.
“… with eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith.” (Heb 12:2) Yes, the first on the path of love is attention. The attention of the mind, attention of the words and acts and gifts, receptivity to the Beloved, to what pleases Him and what does not, what pleases Him and what grieves Him, and what He would wish in His heart and rejoice in that from us … Yes, this is the beginning of love. And we can do that. It can be done. It can any of us if he wants to. If he desires to love. Suppose he hopes to find the Bridegroom.
To act not for our own sake but His. What pleases Him. To put Him at the center. It can be done. That goes. “As the eyes of servants look on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of maidservants look on the
the hands of their mistresses, so our eyes look to the Lord our God.” (Ps. 123, 2)