Every man feels a certain emptiness within himself that nothing on
earth could ever seem to fill up. That is because God planted a desire
in the human heart to seek Him. Man is in search of God because God
wanted man to seek Him. God is constantly drawing man to Himself.
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desire for God is written in the human heart because man is created by
God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to Himself. Only in
God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for.
(#27, Catechism of the Catholic Church |
Every
person has his own unique way of expressing his or her own desire for
God. This is usually manifested in the individual person's religious
beliefs and behavior. These forms of religious expression vary in many
different ways according to each person. But the purpose of such
expression is always the same - to satisfy the deepest longings of the
human heart.
There is a vital and intimate bond between
God and man. Ever since the dawn of creation, man was in close
fellowship with his Creator. This relationship, however, had been broken
by sin. And man, out of fear, had gone away from God. He is afraid to
approach God for fear of judgement for his sin. But even though man had
fled from the presence of God, God never ceased to call him back to
Himself. He continues even until today to call every man to seek Him.
For it is only in God that man can find the truth and happiness that he
has always been searching for.
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| You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and your wisdom is without measure. And man, so small a part of your creation, wants to praise you: this man, though clothed with mortality and bearing the evidence of sin and the proof that you withstand the proud. Despite everything, man, though but a small part of your creation, wants to praise you. You, yourself, encourage him to delight in your praise, for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rest in you. (Saint Augustine, Confessions) |
