The personal God.

The personal God, who emerged from the Father and entered the world,​​​​ is not a distant entity. He is a living presence in our lives, as expressed in the words, ‘I leave with a sentence and I go to the Father‘ (Jn 16, 28). Former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion once received the religious philosopher Martin Buber. On this occasion, he asked: “Professor, why do you believe in God?” Buber answered: “If there was a God that could only be talked about, then I wouldn’t believe either. But since there is a God with whom I can speak, I believe.”

To whom God means little or nothing, for him, he is a nameless being who has nothing to say to him, who can only be discussed, only to have the conversation turn again, for example, on the weather. But if a person gets closer to the mystery that we call God and becomes accessible to his words while acting according to them. He will experience the happiness and liberation of God’s presence. It becomes an intimate relationship. Then a person can say with the psalmist: “I love you, Lord, my strength… My God, my help, I trust in you; you are my shield, the strength of my salvation and my protector” (Psalm 18, 2-3).

In this way, God does not become the object of our questions and doubts as some distant thing. After all, he is alive; he is with us, seeing, loving, calling, waiting, and giving us his love. Indeed, the relationship with God can be complicated for a modern person, as if he had lost sight of him. He asks: Where is he? Up, down, in the height, depth, in this world or the next? In the past or the future? Where should I turn? A person who has lost himself has also lost God. We should first talk to ourselves before we start talking to God. Let’s not be offended if we compare our situation to the prodigal son, about whom Jesus speaks in the parable: “I will get up, go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and you.” (Luke 15:18). Such a conversation will help us look into our complicated situation. Doing this gives us the strength to converse honestly with God. And what will happen next? I can tell you with certainty that the Father, moved by compassion, will meet, embrace, and welcome us into his home. This means that only under the cross of Christ will all our ways become true.