My impression is that some people-— you? I don’t know, but some people -— think of Christ as a very limited and simple minded fellow, a singer who knows how to do solos but has no idea how to conduct a symphony orchestra or direct vast splendid choral music.
Perhaps some people cannot see Him as having any talent for filling and vivifying His people, actually incorporating them into his Body and sounding forth His genius, His music through them. Becoming part of Christ has astounding implications, and, unimaginable though it is, He goes yet further, making us partakers in the divine nature (2 Peter 1:3).
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The divine nature!
By way of comparison, think of how much we can interact with people even here on this earth, and with reference only to our puny human skills and sciences: cloud computing, simultaneous digital connection, communicating with millions or billions. And that’s just our feeble natural accomplishment. Puny.
Do you think IN HEAVEN for God’s sake, we will be unable to do even that? Will we be held incommunicado? Unable to see, or hear? We will be inconsequential and insignificant? We will be LESS capable than our own puny, earthly electronic devices, in Eternity, in the realm of God’s infinite power, in Him in Whom we live and move and have our being??
Why put such incredibly narrow limitations on Christ!
BTW, thank you for your prayers, an offer I take seriously and with a grateful heart.
That's exactly how I think Roman Catholics view Jesus with their emphasis on praying to Mary.
In "Glories of Mary" by Liguori, whose writings were declared free from anything meriting censure by Pope Gregory XVI (1839) in the bull of his canonization, he teaches, Beware, chosen soul, of thinking that it is more perfect to direct your work and intention straight to Jesus or straight to God. Without Mary, your work and your intention will be of little value. But if you go to God through Mary, your work will become Mary's work, and consequently will be most noble and most worthy of God. - THE SECRET OF MARY, St. Louis de Montfort; http://www.ewtn.com/library/Montfort/SECRET.HTM
ccording to Eadmer (A.D. 1060–1124), an English monk and student of Anselm, “sometimes salvation is quicker if we remember Mary's name then if we invoked the name of the Lord Jesus...[who] does not at once, answer anyone who invokes him, but only does so after just judgment. But if the name of his mother Mary is invoked, her merits intercede so that he is answered even if the merits of him who invoked her do not deserve it.” Through her “the elements are renewed, the netherworld is healed, the demons are trodden underfoot, men are saved and angels are restored.” — Andrew Taylor, “Three medieval manuscripts and their readers,” University of Pennsylvania press; page 173
And where can we find an advocate who is more earnest in the affair of our salvation, or who loves us more than Mary? "We acknowledge," says Saint Augustine of her, "that one alone is solicitous for us in Heaven. "...in order that our Lord may pardon us our sins, help us with His grace, free us from dangers, and relieve us in our wants, says, addressing in the words of an ancient writer: 'We know that we have as it were but one solicitous in Heaven for us, and thou art this one, so greatly does thy solicitude for us exceed that of all the Saints.'" - Liguori, Saint Alfonso Maria De'. (2013). pp. 181-2. The Glories of Mary. London: Forgotten Books. http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Glories_of_Mary_1000665057/181"
In Heaven...yes we will.
22I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; 26and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; 27and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
1Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; 4they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. 5And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.
Rev 21:22-22:5 NASB