Editorial

GOD’S CROWNING GLORY

It is our deep conviction as Christians that God is Love; Love is His nature and His essence. Along with this love follows His infinite goodness. Of which, we hold on to our faith that our God is an all-loving God and that He must be the source of all the love in this world—the love that gives life its meaning and worth.

How deep is God’s love? Unfortunately, no words in our human language had ever been coined to express the richness of God’s love for us. God’s love is unfathomable! It is so great that our human knowledge is not capable in comprehending the fullness of its reality. To measure God’s love is tantamount to count the uncountable sand in the seashore.

Though God’s love is a great mystery, He makes His love experiential and real for us. We need not to go too far to take a glance of His immeasurable love. Just look around us! Everywhere we turn our eyes; God’s love is always present and abundant The sunrise every morning, the pouring of the rain, the flight of the birds in the sky, the vastness of the deep blue sea, the colorful rainbows, the clean waters flowing in the rivers, the multitude of stars in the night are some of the visible manifestations of the greatness of God’s love. But the most beautiful and concrete glimpse of the vastness of God’s love in this world is the human person.

Human persons are the crowning glory of God’s creation for we are created in His own image and likeness. This image and likeness which we bear is love because love is the image of God. It is in our human condition that God has assumed to express how deep his love for us is by incarnating Himself in Jesus Christ. For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

It is said that the human fullness is achieved when we live according to the purpose God has given us. Only then in loving that we can discover the fullness of our nature. We are invited therefore to share this love to others.

In today’s modern world, we cannot deny the reality that suffering is as prevalent as it is pervasive. People are debased, discriminated and dehumanized. Such immensity of suffering tends God’s love to be in oblivion. As bearers of God’s love, it is our mission to love these people as God loves us so that they can also realize that sufferings abound but God’s love overshadows all these sufferings for His love is so great that it cannot be surmounted by anything else. God gave us Jesus Christ as our model on how we should love other people. Jesus Christ showed us the kind of love that is all-embracing, even offering His own life for others. Greater love has no one than this, that He lay down His life for His friends (John 15:13).

At best, God and His love will always remain a mystery, but, at least, it will also remain a beautiful reality that without God and His love, life would seem meaningless! May we serve as a beautiful glimpse of God’s love to other people, especially those who are losing their faith and hope in Him, so that they may see in us that our God is truly an all-loving God.

Sem. Franklin Queñano De Guzman

Editor-in-Chief