[usconservative]

However, once you are brought to the end of yourself and you cry out to God in absolute desperation and see yourself as you really are, you find out that God will meet you there and begin the work of transformation in you, conforming you into the image of His beloved Son.

And believe it or not, it is far easier to go to God through a priest than to do it one on one with Him yourself.

Going through a priest can give you a sense of feeling insulated from God.

Going one on one, leaves you exposed to the God who sees and knows everything last little thing about you. There is no hiding there. You can fool a priest and even lie to him, but you can’t with God.

So beautifully stated!

The God who knit us together in our mothers wombs, who knows every hair on our heads, and how many days we have in this lifetime has no desire to have an "intermediary" between us.

Sin separated us from our Father in Heaven. Jesus paid the debt for our sin. We are no longer separated from God.

That was Jesus' entire purpose.

[metmom]

Sin separated us from our Father in Heaven.

And religion works to KEEP us separated from Him.

Which I daresay, is the reason so many of us reject religion and go straight to Scripture, God's very words to us.