To Know, Love and Serve

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, God created humans
to “know, love and serve Him...”. While this may be known by a lot of us already, sometimes we don’t dive into why this is a good thing. If we continue on in that same CCC excerpt (CCC 1271), it continues to say that we dothis so we can come to paradise and become partakers of God’s divine nature. God created us not just to know, love and to serve, but He created us in this way so we can desire true and eternal paradise with Him.

While it may be difficult, and we may be a little too hard on ourselves at times in our lives when we consider ourselves to be acting in opposition of God’s path for you, sometimes we need to take a step back and realize that our God finds joy in us, His creation. God truly loves what He created, especially you.

In this Sunday’s Gospel, after Jesus is baptized, the voice of God says to Him, “This is my beloved Son, with who I am well pleased.” This part of the gospel always strikes me because it always makes me think if I ever that please God. By this question, I don’t ponder if God is content with me, but rather, I ponder if I do things that God loves.

And to be honest, I think the answer is a resounding yes.

At times, it may feel bland to realize that you are created to know, love and
to serve God. That is, until you realize, that God desires you and is so pleased when your free will is geared towards Him. God doesn’t send riddles, games or motives to manipulate you. He doesn’t send tests to set you up for failure. Rather, He reveals Himself to us to let us know that He is pleased and in love with us. ​

During this New Year, I pray that we understand who our God is more fully. I pray that we understand that He pursues us and is desperately in love with us. When we have that revelation understood more fully, and when we understand that God is truly pleased with His creation, we can’t help but to pursue knowing, loving and serving Him.


God Bless,
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Brett Becker
Youth and Young Adult Minister

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