So Where is God?

Where is God? Here's a great quote I found by the Pope Benedict XVI, taken from 'Introduction to Christianity', p123:

"[Our God] is not the god of a place, but the God of men: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is therefore not bound to one spot but is present and powerful wherever man is. God is seen on the plane of I and You, not on the plane of the spatial. He.. thus shows himself to be he who is always near, whose power is boundless. He is not anywhere in particular; he is to be found at any place where man is and where man lets himself be found by him."

God is within us, as the Holy Spirit is Love and the Son is the receiver of Love, the purified and perfected creation, and the Father is the most perfect giver of love. The Holy Trinity is the very life of love itself. If we want to know God then we must look for love, something we can only truly know if we experience it, if we live it.

Yes we can know God by knowing Jesus' history, by seeing what he did, how he sacrificed himself - but to truly grasp his very being is only possible if we experience what he actually was, if we experience love. This is the only way we will identify with the ground of being, with the very essence of God: it is in the simplicity of the love act that we find eternal life. God reaches out from himself as the Son and touches us deep inside, but we only truly receive God as the Holy Spirit, as love. And so it is in our blessed heart that we should look for him.

So, where is God? As Saint Augustine so rightly said: God is indeed closer to us than our own thoughts.