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Caught by God
Father Tony Chakkunga, VC
St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church
for South Peace News
If man does not
search for God,
God may come
down in search of man
with speaking life experiences.
A cartoon, which appeared
in an international
magazine, shows
a man standing in the
palm of a hand. He
looks to the sky and
with the vigour of a local
politician, raises the
hands with closed fists
and cries out the slogan,
“There is no God!
There is no God!”
On the palm where he
is standing it is written,
“This is the hand of
God!”
Without knowing the
truth that man is resting
in the hands of God,
he objects to the existence
of God. What a
contradiction! The Russian
astronaut, Yuri
Gagarin, after returning
from space said, “I
searched for God in the
sky but I didn’t find
Him.”
In the Old Testament,
Psalm 14 starts this
way: “Fools say to
themselves, there is no
God.”
To say there is no
God, is in a way foolishness
or ignorance. I
know a youth who became
victorious by
speaking for the topic,
‘There is no God’. At
that time he had no interest
and faith in religion.
Due to the compulsion
of his parents
he received Holy Eucharist
but he took the
Holy Communion secretly
from his tongue,
and kept in his table
and insulted the
Eucharistic Lord. During
charismatic retreat
I heard him quoting St.
Paul: “Even though I
was formerly a blasphemer,
a persecutor
and a man of violence,
but I received mercy
because I had acted ignorantly
in unbelief.
The saying is sure and
worthy of full acceptance
that Christ Jesus
came into the world to
save sinners.” (1
Timothy 1: 13-15)
He is now very active
in charismatic renewal
and a good practicing
Catholic.
Man searches for God
in many places, but
does not find Him.
God-experience is really
love-experience because
God is love. Whoever
does not love, does
not know God. We love
because He first loved
us.
Those who say, I love
God and hate their
brothers or sisters are
liars; for those who do
not love a brother or
sister whom they have
seen, cannot love God
whom they have not
seen. (1 John 4:8, 16,19)
Those who are born
and brought up without
love, in abandoned and
hatred experiences may
deny God. Even a sense
of despair, inability to
overcome the tendency
to sin and very old habitual
sins lead to denial
of God.
A loving heart and a
pure conscience are inevitable
factors of
God-experience.
“Blessed are the pure
in heart, for they will
see God.” (Matthew
5:8).
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