Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Youcat commented through CCC. Question n. 40 – Part II.
(Youcat answer - repeated) “For God nothing is impossible”
(see Lk 1:37). He is almighty.
A deepening through
CCC
(CCC 271) God's almighty power is in no way arbitrary:
"In God, power, essence, will, intellect, wisdom, and justice are all
identical. Nothing therefore can be in God's power which could not be in his
just will or his wise intellect" (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 25, 5, ad I). (CCC
51) "It pleased God, in his goodness and wisdom, to reveal himself and to
make known the mystery of his will. His will was that men should have access to
the Father, through Christ, the Word made flesh, in the Holy Spirit, and thus
become sharers in the divine nature." (DV 2; cf. Eph 1:9; 2:18; 2 Pt 1:4).
(CCC 273) Only faith can embrace the mysterious ways of God's almighty power.
This faith glories in its weaknesses in order to draw to itself Christ's power
(cf. 2 Cor 12:9; Phil 4:13). The Virgin Mary is the supreme model of this
faith, for she believed that "nothing will be impossible with God",
and was able to magnify the Lord: "For he who is mighty has done great
things for me, and holy is his name" (Lk 1:37, 49).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
Anyone who calls on God in need believes
that he is all-powerful. God created the world out of nothing. He is the Lord
of history. He guides all things and can do everything. How he uses his
omnipotence is of course a mystery.Not
infrequently people ask, Where was God then? Through the prophet Isaiah
he tells us, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways”
(Is 55:8). Often God’s omnipotence is displayed in a situation where men no
longer expect anything from it. The powerlessness of Good Friday was the
prerequisite for the Resurrection.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 315) In the creation of the world and of man, God gave
the first and universal witness to his almighty love and his wisdom, the first
proclamation of the "plan of his loving goodness", which finds its
goal in the new creation in Christ. (CCC 272) Faith in God the Father Almighty
can be put to the test by the experience of evil and suffering. God can
sometimes seem to be absent and incapable of stopping evil. But in the most
mysterious way God the Father has revealed his almighty power in the voluntary
humiliation and Resurrection of his Son, by which he conquered evil. Christ
crucified is thus "the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness
of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men" (1
Cor 1:24-25). It is in Christ's Resurrection and exaltation that the Father has
shown forth "the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who
believe" (Eph 1:19-22).
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