Welcome back to The Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the content director

here at Word on Fire. A couple weeks ago, we shared a sample clip from Bishop Aaron's

study program titled Untold Blessing. The clip was a part of a segment from that film

on your life is not about you. It's a very important spiritual theme. Today, we're

going to hear the second part of that segment. So part one was a couple weeks ago, part

two is today. So we hope you find this segment edifying and enjoy.

All right, we're continuing now with path number three, realizing your life is not about

you. Notice how the Bible begins with the account of creation. The story is not just

about us. The story is about this whole universe that God has made. And all of it is part

of God's plan. Are we in it? Yes. Are we the whole of it? No. The Bible is a very cosmic

book, very interested in all the ways that we participate in a story that stretches far

beyond us. Thomas Aquinas again. What God loves the most, Thomas Aquinas said, is not

any individual creature. What God loves the most is the whole of his creation. Right there

is enough, I think, to sustain a whole retreat, just meditating on that line. What God loves

the most is not any individual creature. You mean me? Uh-huh. What God loves the most

is the whole of his creation. Remember the book of Genesis as God creates the various elements

of the world. He finds this good. He finds that good. But then he finds the whole of it

very good. And that's Thomas' commentary. He finds the whole of creation very good. Which

is why Aquinas usually uses these great, corporate images to describe God's creation. God's

creation is like a bustling household, presided over by a potter familiar, but full of all

kinds of people engage in all kinds of different tasks and jobs. All-conducing toward a great

goal understood fully only by the potter familiar. We've all got our mission. We've all got

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