The role of the priest to preach to the faithful is a difficult one because we have to preach about things that exceed human understanding. Any topic about God is going to be something that is above us and that we are not fully able to grasp. This is particularly true for the topic of today’s sermon: God’s love for us. God has a love for you that exceeds all other loves. Just as God’s power exceeds all other power, just as His wisdom exceeds all other wisdom, so also His love exceeds all other loves. God’s love for us is infinite but we are finite. We only have a limited and finite understanding of an infinite love. What little we are able to understand is just a small part of the reality. How do we know that God loves us? How do we measure the love of God? We know that the essence of love is doing good to another. When you love someone, you look after them, you give them whatever you can so that they can thrive. We know that God has given us everything that we have and everything that we are. But this thought is too vague and often leaves us cold. We just think “everything comes from God” and we move on. I think it is important sometimes to zoom in on a single thing that God has done for us and look at it carefully. I want us to think about the fact that God has given us this Earth as our home, that He created it as a home for us, and that He prepared everything on Earth for us humans. We were the last things that He created. He waited until the end to create Adam and Eve and He said to them, “Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.” I have made this place for you to rule over!
