Since I can't fully, consciously "understand" the Trinity, God's will, and the "how" of Trinitarian life, it follows that something apart from conscious understanding will be needed to form that "lifeline" between myself and God.
In other words, if I have to consciously "know" everything about God and His will, it will be impossible for me to follow Him. If I have to "know" before I can "do," then I'm at a dead end.
If I'm honest with myself, much of the time, I have no idea what God is up to. There have been so many twists and turns in my life, I have seen the profound limitations in "knowing."
So, do we just bumble about and miraculously God accomplishes His purposes? I guess God could work that way, but Catholicism invites us to entertain a more meaningful and surprising possibility. It has to do with this idea of being "in" Christ.
Christ indwells me and this sanctifies my thinking, desires, instincts, intuition, etc. In a mysterious way, Christ really does live in me. The Eucharist helps us to envision how this might happen. After all, from a biological perspective, we become like the food we eat. If we feed on Christ, do we not become Christ in an organic sense?
If I want Christ to guide my life, I must have faith that He indwells me. Then, I must live! I must trust that He is with me in my acting, desiring, thinking, feeling.
He is so near to us that we can rightly say through Him, with Him, and in Him. Christ is not an idea, or a distant spiritual friend. He is alive in me. He lives through me in a sense, and more fundamentally I live through Him.
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