The Word of God
- ksmarekk
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min read
In our world we hear so many words. Sometimes it is like somebody is shooting them at us. People talk a lot. At times I catch how many words I am saying. But what did I really say?
This is always something that bothers me. What is the message that we want to share so badly with others? When I was at high school - humanities class where we learned how to speak - one of the exercises was to express an idea in ten words. The reason was to learn how to use words efficiently so that the message will be sent. It was so hard. I think it took me over an hour to find the proper words and to make this one sentence make sense.
When I think about the Word of God I find it the most inspiring. It always surprises me how God uses the fewest words and the truth is there. He says: Let there be light and the light is. Whatever He says, it exists, and it is the best way possible. Even more, His only Son is the Word that was in the beginning.
Tonight I am looking at the "Logos" - The Word, that created everything. This is the Word that became man and dwelt among us. There is nothing more powerful and more loving than this Word of God. But above every word that God said is this one that has a power and authority over things visible and invisible. This is the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. In his name St. Peter healed the begging man in front of the temple. This is the Name that brings all words together.
Fr, you certainly have a talent for keeping it simple; you are able to briefly say what is worth saying. That’s probably how I got hooked on your homilies and daily messages; that's why your blog and book are such a blessing. It’s said ‘some of the greatest truths are the simplest things in the world’.
I too am of the generation where humanities were required in school. The basics for writing/speaking: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. [didn’t like it then but certainly appreciate it now…]
Who doesn’t love mark Twain: ‘I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.’
Have a blessed week.
In our world we hear so many words.
We listen to words from our own thoughts, which can deceive us thinking; let me do this or that, let me turn on the TV...We spend wasteful time from waking up, feeling lazy, like hitting the snooze button to engaging in ideal gossip, to spending wasteful times in our day listening to words from around us that makes No sense or constructive in our spiritual life! What are we doing right now? Listening to the Word that will help us to grow in Holiness? Imploding into our egoic way of life, contracting our spiritual Hearts, and Not listening to the 'Words' of Our Beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the Body & Blood, True…
Learning to express an idea in ten words, using words efficiently to get the message sent? I want to learn that skill !!