God Thirsts For Us?

[PonderingJak]

God knows all. He didn’t knew all, He knows all. I read something on here that someone said: “God isn’t bound with time as we are- he sees us as we are every second of our lives, on Earth, in Heaven/Hell (I may have changed it a bit)” But then how does He “thirst” for us? He isn’t bound by time. Whether we are dead or not, He isn’t affected by time. Thanks in advance. I’ve been scuba diving with a boy scout group and this question went through my head. I’m not trying to brag when I said that, I just want you all to know that this question has really been eating away at me while I’ve had to wait for a wifi zone to get my question answered.

 

[InNomineDomini]

Maybe this will help a bit: cuf.org/2014/01/thirst-mother-teresas-devotion-thirst-jesus/

 

[fhansen]

God knows all. He didn’t knew all, He knows all. I read something on here that someone said: “God isn’t bound with time as we are- he sees us as we are every second of our lives, on Earth, in Heaven/Hell (I may have changed it a bit)” But then how does He “thirst” for us? He isn’t bound by time. Whether we are dead or not, He isn’t affected by time. Thanks in advance. I’ve been scuba diving with a boy scout group and this question went through my head. I’m not trying to brag when I said that, I just want you all to know that this question has really been eating away at me while I’ve had to wait for a wifi zone to get my question answered.

The choices that we make in life are not made by God, even as He may help us via grace to make the right choices. He draws us, without force, into righteousness. We must do our part and answer Him; we must cooperate. If we don’t answer, or reject Him later on after answering, we remain lost, and can be lost eternally. So yes, He thirsts for us, as He accompanies our every move. “In Him we live and move and have our being”, even if we never acknowledge His existence.

Now maybe none of this answers your question but I do believe that, as we live in time, our choices are made in time, our salvation is worked out over time, and until justice is finally, fully, accomplished in our lives, in our beings, there’s no gaurantee of eternal life as our destiny. Without God thirsting for us, could we be saved?

 

[TK421]

God knows all. He didn’t knew all, He knows all. I read something on here that someone said: “God isn’t bound with time as we are- he sees us as we are every second of our lives, on Earth, in Heaven/Hell (I may have changed it a bit)” But then how does He “thirst” for us? He isn’t bound by time. Whether we are dead or not, He isn’t affected by time. Thanks in advance. I’ve been scuba diving with a boy scout group and this question went through my head. I’m not trying to brag when I said that, I just want you all to know that this question has really been eating away at me while I’ve had to wait for a wifi zone to get my question answered.

God is pure spirit, and therefore does not have emotions in any way we would understand them, as emotions are intrinsically tied to matter & body.

When Jesus became man, he became a part of time and a material, tangible human being, and therefore an image of God, which only man can do. Angels, and, in fact, even God himself is not an image of God. Jesus also has emotions as part of his body. Jesus tells St Faustina that his desire to pour out his mercy on souls is like “a clamoring fire” that burns at him because of his passion to do so. When every sinful deed of mankind is amassed together, it is as a drop of water that falls into a Divine Inferno of Love and is instantly vaporized, in so far as a soul allows him access to do so.