Let God Be Your Vision

This weeks reflection is a shorter one, because I think a song will do a greater job than I can discussing the importance of this gospel.

This is one of my least favorite, or really most daunting, gospel to reflect on. I think it is hard for many to reconcile how an all loving God, a God who loves us infinitely, could say “Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.” That makes many think this is an example of God abandoning his people, or something along those lines. But I say that it is from that, rather it is an example of our Lord showing us how he is both just and merciful. I think we often limit God to one idea, the idea that God is merciful, but we must remember that God is the God of justice as well, and we see this throughout the gospels.

God warns us throughout the Old Testament and through his incarnate self he explains that we need to live lives worthy of his calling, worthy of living with him, and he desires infinitely that we do so, so that we can spend eternity with him. Hell isn’t God choosing to not be with us, hell is us telling God we reject him through the actions of our life. So don’t wait. Change our habits. Change our ways. We need God to be our vision, we need him to be our all in all. When we put God first, when we let him be our companion through the journey of life, we are protected and never alone. But we can only invite him into our lives by inviting the good into our lives.

The following song is one of my favorite Catholic hymns in general, but also my favorite hymn about putting God first and how everything else will flow from that.

Let God Be Your Vision.