We are being transformed into God's image

 

New Testament reading is 2 Corinthians 3:18 “…all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

I believe humanity was created with an innate desire to seek God, and there is an emptiness deep within our souls that remains unfilled until we turn to God. However, this emptiness is not filled with divine benevolences discovered in our search. We find fulfillment, at least in part because we seek to know God, to be in a relationship with God. Those who try to fill the void with material things will remain empty, but even those of us who believe we know God are limited in our understanding.  

Author, theologian, and spiritual guide Jeremy Driscoll wrote that "God is not what we think [God] is — not in any small way what we might think, nor in any big way the sum total of what a whole bunch of thinkers, great thinkers through the centuries, might think." I believe contemplating on God keeps us seeking to know God. Driscoll also said, "we have no choice but to try to imagine God." In our limited humanness, we try to imagine what God is, what and who God might be, and God at some point comes to meet us in our thoughts." (Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, A Monk's Alphabet: Moments of Stillness in a Turning World (Shambhala, 2007), 169.

God's amazing grace is that if we live our lives seeking to know God, we will grow in God's glory, but we still will never understand God's glory, but again it is the seeking that makes the difference in our journey to know God.