The Off-Putting Generosity of God

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 September 2002

⏱️ 15 minutes

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God's ways are not our ways; God's thoughts are not our thoughts. How is God's love playing itself out in the world? It isn't always easy to see, for there are so many injustices, so much innocent suffering, so much out of balance. But the dispensing of grace is God's business, not ours, and so we should ask the question "why?" not in a spirit of rebellion, but in an attitude of awe.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:04.6	reflect with Father Robert Baron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:11.2	Father Baron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:15.5	Word of Love for each of us.
0:17.8	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, so that we might speak with
0:22.8	love about the one who is love.
0:26.2	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish and Winnetka now presents
0:31.1	the Word on Fire.
0:33.6	Peace be with you.
0:36.0	Friends, our first reading for today is from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, and it
0:40.9	contains what I think is one of the most important lines in the whole biblical tradition.
0:46.4	Isaiah, now speaking for God, says this.
0:51.1	For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
0:58.4	As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways, and
1:04.1	my thoughts above your thoughts.
1:08.8	The otherness of God is a basic biblical theme.
1:14.4	The God is in the world, yes, in and through all things, yes, nevertheless, God remains
1:22.4	other.
1:24.4	Carl Bart, one of the most important Protestant theologians of the past century, said,
1:29.4	there is an infinite qualitative difference between us and God.
1:34.6	He means, of course, not just a quantitative difference, as though we're small things
1:38.4	and God is the ultimate, the largest being.
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