Fasten yourself to God

Today we will take the next step on the path of seeking God and our relationship with Him. In recent catecheses, we have had the opportunity to realize that spiritual life is for us. It is not enough to have a distant ideal and at least try to create conditions for others when I can no longer live. We have also said that God can be known by analogy, from everyday facts such as good, beauty, truth and the like. Today we would continue this analogous knowledge and try to get closer to God through relationships.

Religion is said to be religio in Latin. This word is derived from re (again) ligare (tie, tie, tie). Thus, etymologically, the word religion means to be restrained again. It means that the person who is attached to God is religious. This attachment in spiritual literature used to be compared to attaching a servant to his master. Of course, the master enslaved his servant, who did not serve him voluntarily, but out of compulsion. But the slave was essentially dependent on the will of the master. Without him he was nothing, without him he had nothing. A religious man voluntarily becomes such a slave to the Lord. Actually, this statement is not entirely accurate. We are such slaves. There is nothing to change whether we believe God or not. A religious person is one who accepts this essential addiction. A religious man draws on this truth and voluntarily chooses to live in the service of God, expressing his subordination by adoration, invocation, prayer …

Adoration is the recognition of God as one and the highest. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says of adoration: “Adoration is the fundamental attitude of a person who recognizes himself as a creature before his Creator. It glorifies the greatness of the Lord who created us and the omnipotence of the Savior who liberates us from evil. Adoration is a deep bow to the spirit before the “King of Glory” and a respectful silence before God, who “is always … greater than we are.” The adoration of the Holy and Most Loving God fills us with humility and trust in our pleas. ” KKC 2628

By accepting our dependence on God, it is not enough to choose from time to time somewhere in the hidden corner of our conscience, it must be a total and lasting decision.
Let us now consider an analogy other than the Lord and the slave who can better explain our relationship with God. Scripture brings us the image of marriage. Marriage is also a permanent attachment to another person. How does this attachment work? What pitfalls can it have? What can it fail? What feeds this attachment? When considering these questions, we can find a number of beautiful analogies related to God. Either I decide to have a lasting and unique relationship, or it doesn’t matter. Either I decide to pay attention to the relationship every day, or it will only be coexistence without a deeper relationship. Either we communicate regularly, or we don’t understand. The more we choose one another, the stronger the bond. The more we give up things that are beyond us, the closer we are to each other.

This analogy also helps us to understand the tragic nature of divorces or cohabitation, without obligations. Since marriage expresses the relationship of fidelity between God and man, the unbelief of the marital side draws a cartoon of God. But God remains faithful despite man’s unfaithfulness. That is why the page that has been abandoned is also invited to remain faithful. This becomes an even deeper image of God who gives everything and asks nothing for it, who is faithful even if man is unfaithful. Humanly, it is impossible to remain faithful in this way. Let’s just imagine a 35-year-old who has not volunteered for solitude but is forced to live because her partner has left her. Being lonely and faithful to someone enjoying with another person and throwing me away because I was not good enough for him / her. Such a person has the opportunity to experience some of the pain that God is experiencing by looking at the unfaithfulness of man. But it can only survive if it is deeply attached to God and his eyes see that this nonsensical situation makes sense.

Let us now look at the link to created things. We know it well from our own experience. We are tied to many things that are not God. From them we promise certainty, realization of our dreams, security, independence and the like. Sometimes we try to stop and think about what we put our trust in. When I’m down, when I have a lot, when I can’t do things, what do I see the light at the end of the tunnel? What am I catching up with? Let us now pass this trust to God. Could he be the anchor? Could he be the encouragement? Could he be the relaxation? Could he be that close person in time?

Let’s try a little more specifically: We have a car. We depend on it, without it we cannot imagine how it works. But could God be the one who gets me where I should be? We have money. Could God be the one who pays for me? Of course, God again tell us these things.