“Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;

His greatness no one can fathom.” Psalm 145:3

Although we will never be able to properly contemplate the greatness of God, let us reflect on what we do know.

“The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He does not faint or grow weary;

his understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the faint,

and to him who has no might he increases strength.” Isaiah 40:28-29

Throughout every generation, God’s greatness has been proclaimed; His holiness and righteousness honoured:

“The Lord is gracious and compassionate,

slow to anger and rich in love.

The Lord is good to all;

he has compassion on all he has made.” Psalm 145:8-9

“The Lord is righteous in all his ways

and faithful in all he does.

The Lord is near to all who call on him,

to all who call on him in truth.

He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;

he hears their cry and saves them.

The Lord watches over all who love him,

but all the wicked he will destroy.” Psalm 145:17-20

God’s thoughts and God’s ways are infinitely holier than ours:

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55: 8-9

God did not need to create us. Human beings have been and are a lot of trouble! Human beings have been disobedient to Him, arrogant and pretentious and slow to recognize how much we need Him. Yet the Lord in His gentleness and eternal love for His people waits for us to come to Him for forgiveness and for guidance.

One of the things that always amazes me about God is that while He is all-powerful, He always clothes Himself in vulnerability and fragility. Consider that God did not have to choose to enter the world as a fragile little baby needing to be nurtured and cared for, dependent on His mother’s love and providence. Jesus could have come down from Heaven strong and invincible but He chose to take the path that made Him dependent.

God is omnipotence clothed in vulnerability and holy desire. God desires our love but He never demands it!

God is the King that gives His life for His unworthy subjects! He is royalty clothed in poverty. From the very beginning, mankind has no room for Him so He is born in the place where the animals are being kept. His blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, places Him in the place where the animals eat (the manger) to sleep. The Holy One, Jesus Christ, who becomes for us the Bread of Life, commences His journey not in a royal palace surrounded by servants, but in a cave, surrounded by animals.

Still this very day God chooses to clothe Himself in vulnerability and poverty.   He is the vulnerable lover desiring that His love be reciprocated, but our God never demands our love, He never enforces it, for love by its very nature cannot be forced upon someone and it cannot be demanded. Love is a free gift exchanged by two parties open to being vulnerable to one another, open to trusting one another, open to giving and receiving.

In order to begin to try to embrace God’s great love we must acknowledge our poverty and dependence on His grace. We must empty ourselves and recognize our need for God to enrich our lives, to feed our souls, to give us a true sense of identity. God will not dwell in us until we make room for Him. God’s voice will not be heard until we become truly quiet and desirous of hearing Him. God’s royal throne on earth is the human heart willing to acknowledge its nothingness without God’s love. Without Him we are nothing! We are without purpose and without clarity but with Him we acquire purpose and a holy identity for we become ONE with Him and in our poverty He places His richness and we become fulfilled by the greatness of His love.

The mystery of God’s greatness is it’s invisible to the nonbeliever but so very obvious to people of faith. To the atheist the world just formed through some sort of cosmic activity, but to the person of faith everything in creation bears the fingerprints of God.

When my children were little I wanted them to know how much I loved them. So one day I told them to look up into the sky. “Do you see the end of the sky?” I asked them. They said “nope.” I said, “That’s mommy’s love for you. It’s as big as the sky!” And before I put them to bed I used to ask them “How much does mommy love you?” And they would answer with a big smile “as big as the sky!”

Can you imagine how much God loves you?

Look at the God-Man nailed to the Cross! His arms are outstretched in an eternal embrace for His people. Hold that image in your heart. There He is, the Great One, the Holy One, nailed to a Cross so that He could atone for our sinfulness and become for us, Our Saviour!

Jesus Christ, True God and True Man, did not have to die for us. God chose to show us the greatness of His love by sacrificing His life for us. “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:13

This is the great mystery of God:

“The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18

God chose to turn an instrument of torture, the Cross, into the sign of our salvation, to prove how much He loved us!

“For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things–and the things that are not–to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God–that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:25-31

I invite you to give glory to God by stopping each day at 3pm in your time zone to remember that this is the time Our Holy Lord died on the Cross for our redemption. At this time see Him dying for You and let His great love open your heart. Pray for all souls at this time, that all may come to know the infinite, endless love of God.

I believe that prayer is the key to opening the heart of God and I also believe that the Passion of Christ is the key that opens the human heart to understanding the greatness of God’s love for us. Our Great God died so that we could die to sin and embrace Him with an everlasting love. We on our own are fallible and impotent creatures, but with God on our side and with God in our hearts we become all that He desires us to be, through His great power and eternal love!

“Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.” Psalm 106:1

Dear friends, please take a moment to ask yourself this question:

What would the world be like if Christians all across the globe would unite in a daily solemn moment of true solidarity at the time Jesus died for us, 3pm (in our local time zones)?  Imagine the entire Christian world united DAILY in a moment of true fraternity, praying for the mercy of Our Lord, thanking Him for His great sacrifice, meditating on His sorrowful Passion while repenting of our sins, telling Jesus we trust Him and we love Him, asking Jesus to forgive us and to help us to love and honor Him and one another?

My answer is:

The world would be different!

Please join The Mercy Movement that gives glory to Our Saviour Jesus Christ by uniting in prayer at the time He died for us 3pm (in our local time zones) as we remember His Passion.  

Please help to promote this. God bless you! God is GREAT and His love for you is EVERLASTING!