(In 4 parts)
God is the guarantor of human fulfilment
Part 1: Sharing in the perfection of God
God is the appreciation of the absolute ultimate. Human beings have managed to develop the concept of the supreme being. This may well be because the supreme being exists and has communicated his presence to us, and through our experience of relationship with him, God has revealed himself to us. If God does not exist as a being independent from us, then God is the concept of God, rather than a person. Though in many ways this would be considerably less to us, counter-intuitively, God as “merely” a concept still retains much of the traditional content of God as a person. He is still certainly worthy of holding the position that God has traditionally held for believers as the absolute ultimate in all good qualities, to be worshiped, loved and served with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.
The particular focus for our thinking today is the way God becomes the guarantor of human fulfilment.
Traditionally, God achieves this in two ways. Firstly, through imparting a quality of life now which gives us the sense that we are experiencing the pinnacle of what life has to offer, and even though we see clearly that these peak moments are transitory, nevertheless, we feel content that we have experienced the very best that life has to offer. The other way is through God’s ability to impart eternal life. Even if we die far too soon, after far too miserable a life, or through the injustice of others, God “recompenses” us through his ability to give us a new life in heaven, where everything good is redeemed from loss, and everything unaccomplished is fulfilled. Today, we will focus on the second way of experiencing perfect fulfilment.
Spiritual Devotion 