Remember God
Remember God
We must remember God not only when we need him but always. As you’re reading the paragraph it will say that God gave us a heart to be close to him because in reality our heart is the only organ in our body that can feel love. We must always remember God when we are in temptation when we are happy we thank him. In short always remember God in all and in every situation.
Finally, we nourish our longing for God by remembering him as constantly as we possibly can. Birgitta hears God say that this is his intension for us: “I gave man a heart so that he might enclose in it me, his God…so that his delight might be in thinking of me.”
In the beginning, of course, we will remember God only sporadically, in the blank spots of our days. We can fill our environment with reminders – symbols, words, pictures, music – and we can pray for grace to recall the presence of God more and more often. Our remembering gradually grows into praying without ceasing, as Paul admonished the first Christians to practice.
Remembering God is a way of cherishing God, of dreaming about him, of wishing that we were totally present to him all the time. We remember what we love.
Every time we do remember God, we will likely be aware that for the just-past hour or half-day or whatever, we have forgotten God. We will alternate between remembering God and forgetting. Out of the sweetness of remembering and still knowing our forgetfulness, we will want God more. Our yearning is intensified – our prayer is being answered.
So with Gregory, “Fixing our eyes on those things which help us to see [God], we must ever keep alive in us the desire to see more and more. And so no limit can be set to our progress towards God.”