Pope:
“make space for God’s love so He can change you”
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis says we are loved by God in a way
that no theologian can explain.
He was speaking during
morning Mass in the Casa Santa Marta.
Taking his cue from
the first reading from the prophet Isaiah in which the Lord says He is “about
to create new heavens and a new earth”, Pope Francis said that God’s second
creation is even more “wonderful” than the first because when he makes the
world over he does so in Jesus Christ. He renews everything and manifests his
immense joy:
“We find that the Lord
has so much enthusiasm: he speaks of joy and says ‘I will exult in my people’.
The Lord thinks of what He will do and of how He will rejoice with His people.
It’s almost as if he has a dream. He has a dream. His dream is about us. ‘Oh,
how beautiful it will be when we are all together, when this and that person
will walk with me… I will exult in that moment!’ To bring you an example that
can help us better understand, it’s like when a girl or a boy think of their
beloved: ‘when we will be together, when we marry…’. It’s God’s ‘dream’”.
“God – the Pope
continued – thinks of each of us and loves each of us. He ‘dreams’ about us. He
dreams of how He will rejoice with us. That’s why the Lord wants to ‘re-create’
us, He wants to renew our hearts so that joy can triumph:
“Have you thought
about it? The Lord dreams of me! He thinks of me! I am in the Lord’s mind and
in His heart! The Lord can change my life! And he has many projects: ‘we will
build houses and plant vineyards, we will share our meals’… these are the
dreams of someone who is in love…. Thus we can see that the Lord is in love
with his people. And when he says to his people: ‘I haven’t chosen you because
you are the strongest, the biggest, the most powerful. I have chosen you
because you are the smallest of them all. You could add: the most miserable.
This is whom I have chosen’. This is love”.
God “is in love with
us” – Francis repeated, as he commented on the Gospel reading that speaks of
the miraculous healing of the son of a Royal official:
“I don’t think a
theologian exists who can explain this: it is impossible to explain. We can
only think about it, we can feel, we can cry with joy. The Lord can change us.
‘And what must I do?’ Believe. I must believe that the Lord can change me, that
He has the power to do so: just like the man in the Gospel whose son was sick.
‘Sir, come down before my child dies’. ‘You may go (Jesus said to him). Your
son will live!’ That man believed in the words of Jesus and had set off. He
believed. He believed that Jesus had the power to change his child, the health
of his child. And he won. To have faith is to make space for God’s love, to
make space for his power, for God’s power. Not for the power of a powerful
person, but for the power of one who loves me, who is in love with me and who
wants to rejoice with me. This is faith. This is believing: making space for
the Lord so that he can come and change me”.
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