You Are Like God...

You Are Like God…

Have you ever sensed that you are called to something more, to accomplish something, or to be someone great?
Have you ever thought that you have an essential mission that, if fulfilled, will greatly impact humanity?
The authentic version of that desire and call to greatness is divinely inspired.
It is God’s voice calling you to be like Him.

But wasn’t that the sin of our first parents? Weren’t they deceived into believing the lie that by eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that they would become like God?

Their sin was not desiring to be like God, but rather believing that God did not desire them to be like Him; and therefore, rather than trusting in, waiting for, and receiving the gift of divinity from God, they grasped for it, believing that God would not give it.

What does God say about this? God, through His word, tells us that “[w]e shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (1 Jn 3:2).
Jesus prayed that “The glory which Thou [Father] hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one as we are one” (Jn 17:22).

God desires that you become like Him.
He desires to share his divine nature, power and glory with you.
But what is this glory?
What is this oneness that Jesus speaks of?

God is a Trinity of Persons: three distinct Persons who are so completely self-giving that they are in substance (essence) one.

Oneness, or unity, springs from the self-giving, the mutual self-sacrifice, between two people.
A husband and wife become one like God when giving themselves to one another.

The pinnacle expression of this oneness is the marital embrace.
The Father, the principal source of the Trinity, loves the Word, and the Word loves the Father, and the love that proceeds from them is the Holy Spirit.
In a similar way, God creates the family to be like the Trinity’s exchange of love—an exchange of persons.
A husband and wife give themselves to one another, particularly in the one-flesh union, and that union produces a third, a child.

What God does in eternity (total self-giving love) He desires to reproduce in our humanity.
God desires His Trinity to animate your family.

Just as the Trinity cannot exist without the Father, the human family will struggle to thrive in love without the human father.

St. Joseph’s fatherhood was not ancillary, or simply ordained to avoid the scandal of the Virgin’s pregnancy, but rather was essential to God’s plan of making the Holy Family the primary example of the Trinity’s self-giving love.

Like St. Joseph, God has entrusted you with the challenging yet noble task of initiating and sustaining the self-giving glory of God in your family.
If you respond to His call, you and your family—by divine design—will become like God.