January 24, 2013 – Catechism 2095 – 2100

I thought it was very interesting to think of adoration of God as the only just thing to do.  I don’t know if we often think about it that way, but it is just.  God gives us everything, including the fact that we are breathing, every breath is a gift from God, our very existence depends on His willing it.  It would be injustice to not worship and adore Him.  Yet, that is what people do.  Not only that, but people worship and adore those things that take them from God and lead them to sadness and despair.  One of the paragraphs talks about clinging to God.  When I first read about that, I thought about those things that we allow between God and us so that we are not able to cling to Him, or at least have less of a grip.  But when you think about what people adore in this world and how they let it tear their lives apart, that is what they are clinging to because we long to cling to something.  No matter how independent we think we are, we are made to cling to God.  We are made to cling on to something, to have something in our grasp that we can rely on and that will guide us.  When that isn’t God, when we choose to make it something else, that becomes what we cling to, that becomes our god, and it will lead us where ever it is going.  But if we are clinging to anything but God, we are going in direction away from Him.